Executive Producer, News (English Services)(In office)**Are you a creative, dynamic and people-focused senior journalist looking for a new leadership challenge in a bustling, multi-city newsroom?CBC Saskatchewan is looking for an executive producer to lead our news operation. This is a fourteen-month full-time onsite role covering a maternity leave. Reporting to the managing editor, the executive producer will lead our teams who gather and produce daily and enterprise news content across platforms, including video, digital, social, radio and television.
In this role you will work alongside the executive producer of programming to steer our journalism and our storytelling to audiences on video, digital and audio platforms.As such, we are looking for someone who is a champion both of great journalistic content and of the people who make it.As the executive producer of news, you will oversee daily news coverage decisions and be the go-to person on journalistic policy and judgment. You will have experience leading teams covering all aspects of news, from breaking events to investigative projects, and will have a keen knowledge of legal risk management. You will be creative and innovative, working with the rest of the leadership team to develop new forms of storytelling on all platforms.
You will be a strategic thinker: you are able to set direction and delegate effectively, but you aren’t afraid to roll up your sleeves and do the hard work. You know how to balance out the daily demands with longer-term projects and strategy. You champion growing our audiences, using data to help us grow them.Alongside the executive producer of programming, oversee CBC Saskatchewan’s daily operations, focusing on daily, enterprise and investigative news gathering, digital and social publishing, and radio and TV news programming.
Provide editorial oversight to ensure our content is original, relevant and impactful, and elevates a range of voices and perspectives.
Make editorial coverage decisions that align with CBC’s Journalistic Standards and Practices* Provide guidance on legal risk management.
Coordinate and oversee live and breaking news specials.
Demonstrated experience leading teams in a fast-paced daily multi-platform news environment.
Excellent journalistic and critical thinking skills, including a deep knowledge of the legal and ethical issues related to journalism.
Demonstrated ability to exercise both quick editorial judgment and long-term planning.
Experience and commitment to developing content strategies to feature new voices and perspectives and to connect with new, younger and more diverse audiences.
A strong proven connection to the communities we serve in Saskatchewan, and a deep and nuanced understanding of diverse perspectives and lived experiences.
Strong people management skills with a keen desire to live and promote the values of diversity and an inclusive and respectful work culture.
Ability and willingness to work flexible hours as required.
Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.A mandatory Criminal record check.
CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to being a leader in reflecting our country’s diversity. That’s because we can only create and tell the stories that connect Canadians, by having a workforce that mirrors the ever-changing makeup of our country. That’s why we, as an employer, 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.
For more information, visit the Diversity and Inclusion section of our website. 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
[email protected]. You are invited to consult and familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct, which can be found on our corporate website.
We also invite you to take a look at our policy on conflicts of interest.
📌 Executive Producer, News (Saskatoon)
🏢 Radio-Canada
📍 Saskatoon