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About the Role
CBC News is establishing a new Scams unit to investigate deceptive practices and educate Canadians on self-protection. We are seeking a Producer to help shape programming, champion journalistic content, and represent the unit when necessary. This role requires a skilled journalist with experience in daily news and enterprise stories, strong research abilities, and familiarity with scams or fraud investigations, open-source information, and digital forensic technologies.
Responsibilities
- Generate and execute compelling journalism, including pitching, researching, writing, shooting, and editing written, audio, and visual content, with an emphasis on vertical and short-form video.
- Manage interview schedules, coordinate with CBC colleagues on shared coverage, and ensure safety protocols are followed.
- Fact-check and verify names, locations, and translations against tight deadlines, ensuring adherence to CBC News Journalistic Standards and Practices.
- Verify video and other user-generated or third-party content.
- Produce original content, defining the visual style, pace, tempo, and format for live and on-demand content, including packaged items, photo galleries, soundscapes, and current affairs.
- Drive production methods incorporating the latest visual storytelling trends, practices, tools, and techniques, with a willingness to experiment with creative technology.
- Perform location surveys and identify special requirements such as audio, lighting, camera angles, and equipment, including production limitations.
Requirements
- Seasoned video-journalist with at least five (5) years of directly related investigative or enterprise experience.
- Ability to perform in a deadline-driven, high-pressure environment while balancing speed with accuracy and balance.
- Proven record of highly creative, innovative visual storytelling.
- Deep appreciation for diversity of perspective, opinion, and experience, with a commitment to seeking out voices from underrepresented groups.
- Strong sense of creativity, initiative, and a high degree of responsibility for the accuracy and quality of work throughout the production cycle.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and client service skills.
- Ability to work independently in a deadline-driven environment while maintaining a professional attitude.
- Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to pursue story elements with minimal supervision.
- Ability and willingness to work overtime and various shift patterns, including overnights and weekends.
- Must include at least two examples of packaged short-form video and packaged vertical video stories produced.
- Must include a cover letter explaining interest in the role and how experience will support the new unit.
- Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.
- Candidates selected for an interview will be asked to complete a background check, including a mandatory Criminal record check and potentially other checks based on operational requirements.
Skills
- Journalism
- Daily news
- Enterprise stories
- Research
- Scams investigations
- Fraud investigations
- Open source information
- Digital forensic technologies
- Editorial leadership
- Logistical expertise
- Writing
- Editing video
- Editing audio
- Editing text-based content
- Mobile short-form video journalism
- Data analysis for storytelling
- Trend spotting in formats, tools, and technologies
- Experimentation with new technologies
- Understanding of live and on-demand news consumption
- Verification
- Collaboration
- Visual storytelling
- Creative technology
- Audio
- Lighting
- Camera angles
- Equipment management
Location
- Broadcast Centre 205 Wellington St. W., Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3G7
Work Type
- On-Site
- Temporary Long-Term (Fixed Term)
- Full time
Experience Level
- At least five (5) years of directly related investigative or enterprise experience
About the Company
- At CBC/Radio-Canada, we create content that informs, entertains, and connects Canadians on multiple platforms.
- Our successes and accomplishments are driven by embodying and upholding values, which include creativity, integrity, inclusiveness, and relevance.
- We are a public service broadcaster helping Canadians make sense of their world.
- We are committed to being a leader in reflecting our country’s diversity.
- We value equal opportunity and nurture an inclusive workplace where individual differences are recognized and valued.
- We provide services that reflect the complexity and rich diversity of Canada.
Equal Opportunity
- CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to being a leader in reflecting our country’s diversity.
- We value equal opportunity and nurture an inclusive workplace where our individual differences are not only recognized and valued, but also extend to and pervade all the services we provide as Canada’s public broadcaster.
- If you have accommodation needs at this stage of the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible by sending an e-mail to recruitment@cbc.ca.