Assignment Manager, CBS Sports College 247

Overview:

CBS Sports is looking for an experienced editorial leader with proven newsgathering and storytelling judgment to be an Assignment Manager and central figure in the newsgathering for productions across linear and digital platforms, focused on college sports coverage.

The ideal candidate will direct the daily newsgathering efforts to support productions across platforms, directly supervising a team of contributors to our CBS Sports College 247 network.

The Assignment Manager must cultivate strong, effective partnerships with contributors throughout the CBS Sports division, and beyond, to find opportunities, and help to develop and produce journalistically sound and editorially innovative content across multiple productions.

This job will be primarily an in-person role, and shifts will include regularly working on nights and weekends.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct newsgathering across multiple CBS platforms.
• Identify and acquire content for use across productions, including news conferences, interviews and highlights.
• Post highlights for CBS affiliates on video distribution site
• Provide story ideas and recommend content for use in coverage
• Work with CBS affiliates and others on developing stories to share of information, video and sound
• Gather transmission information (fiber, satellite, streaming, etc.) for televised games
• Must be skilled at identifying news and emerging storylines; gathering ideas and content for potential storytelling to improve and support coverage across CBS Sports platforms.
• Discover connections between our events and developing news stories; and then provide ideas for how to tell those stories within our games and studio shows. This may include suggesting and gathering elements, potential guests, and details on alternative angles to improve the telling of those stories.
• Use deep sports knowledge (with a focus on NCAA/college sports), an insatiable curiosity and sound news judgment, to support storytelling that is timely, topical, innovative and inclusive.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of sports media production, including knowledge of successful content creation for television, digital video, or similar programming
• Proactively identify and suggest solutions to address potential coverage

Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge/passion for sports, with specialized emphasis on collegiate level
• Possess depth of knowledge in fiber, satellite, cellular, FTP, and viral newsgathering procedures
• Ability to work nights, weekends, and flexible hours.
• Able to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment under deadlines and prioritize assignments
• Strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong knowledge in content acquisition
• A resourceful ability to conduct content research and a passion for discovering content and sharing information is a must.
• Must have experience with variety of approaches to Internet searches and be fluent in electronic newsgathering techniques, including quickly navigating the Internet and standard methodologies for applying social media.

Experience:

• Preferred minimum of 5+ years of experience in a television-related field
• Bachelor’s degree in journalism or equivalent training and experience
• Prior experience in sports journalism field is a plus
• Experience in digital and/or video preferred

Location

• This is an in-person full-time role in Nashville, TN. Candidates must be available to work full-time in office.

CBS Sports, a year-round leader in cross-platform sports coverage, broadcasts a portfolio of events on the CBS Television Network, including THE NFL ON CBS; college football, including the SEC ON CBS; college basketball, including the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship; golf, including The Masters®, PGA Championship and PGA TOUR; soccer, including the UEFA Champions League and NWSL; and CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR. 

In addition, the division includes CBS SPORTS NETWORK, the 24-hour cable home of CBS Sports which televises live sports programming throughout the year, including college football and basketball games, UEFA Champions League and Europa League action, Italy's Serie A matches, Concacaf national team competitions, as well as a full slate of original programming and studio coverage. 

CBS Sports also delivers an extensive lineup of global soccer coverage on Paramount+, including every UEFA club competition match, all Serie A matches as well as Concacaf national team competitions, and produces INSIDE THE NFL for Paramount+. CBS Sports Digital's multi-platform offerings include CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports apps for mobile and connected TV devices; the 24/7 streaming sports news network CBS Sports HQ; 247Sports; MaxPreps; CBS Sports fantasy games; and SportsLine.

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet. 

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