Jobs at Nexstar Media Group, Inc.

Provides IT support for newsroom, broadcast production, creative, sales, and administrative teams in a 24/7 live news environment. Responsibilities include maintaining Windows, macOS, and Linux systems; supporting Microsoft 365 and Adobe applications; administering servers, storage, backups, and RAID systems; troubleshooting hardware and high-speed IP networks; and managing routers and switches. The role supports local and remote users and requires flexible scheduling, physical equipment handling, and urgent troubleshooting.

Produces segments for a weekend primetime national newscast by pitching stories and guests, writing scripts, gathering visuals, requesting graphics, monitoring breaking news, and securing reliable guests or witnesses. Collaborates with producers, on-air talent, videographers, production, digital, and engineering teams while meeting tight deadlines and working assigned shifts, overnights, weekends, holidays, and on-call periods.

Produces daily sports segments, sportscasts, streaming programs, digital stories, and social content across multiple platforms. Writes and edits accurate sports journalism under tight deadlines, coordinates coverage of sporting events, supports livestream productions using OBS and vMix, and collaborates with anchors, reporters, editors, photographers, and digital teams. The role also contributes to special projects, feature stories, live event coverage, and audience engagement initiatives.

Produce, write, film, and edit promotional content for a television network, including high-end image promos, sizzle reels, social promos, and sales videos. Lead editing, VFX, compositing, color grading, production planning, shoots, voiceover sessions, music coordination, and graphic supervision while collaborating with creative and marketing teams.

Provides executive support to the station Vice President/General Manager, including calendar, travel, expenses, meetings, and confidential information management. Oversees office operations, facilities, mailroom and switchboard functions, vendors, security badges, maintenance, and workplace initiatives. Leads employee engagement events, internal communications, newsletters, digital signage, community relations, charitable sponsorships, and public service programs.

Supports television programming operations across multiple networks by maintaining schedules, entering episodic data, managing inventory and metadata, coordinating programming events, communicating updates to listings providers, processing FCC compliance certifications, resolving scheduling conflicts, and assisting with viewer inquiries and special projects.

Produces and manages social media content for NewsNation across YouTube and other social channels. Responsibilities include pitching stories, creating multimedia content, collaborating with editorial teams, analyzing performance data, using AI and emerging technologies, monitoring trends, engaging audiences, and training staff on social media best practices. The role requires flexibility for early morning, late night, and weekend shifts and is performed onsite in Chicago or New York.

Paid Fall 2026 onsite internship at NewsNation (Chicago) supporting editorial newsgathering and production. Interns will research, pitch stories, identify guests, source social video, do desktop video editing, create graphics, write scripts, shadow editorial roles, and attend trainings and workshops to learn newsroom operations.

Produce and edit content for daily newscasts and digital platforms. Collaborate with producers, reporters, anchors, and directors to write, stack, and edit video, research stories, post segments online, and support breaking news editorial decisions. Serve as fill‑in producer as needed while maintaining newsroom standards, journalistic integrity, and brand consistency under deadline pressure and varied shift schedules.

Produces live guest segments and correspondent hits for a national morning news broadcast. Responsibilities include developing story ideas, researching and compiling video and graphics, writing scripts and packages, updating rundowns, coordinating with correspondents and senior producers, and assisting in the control room. The role requires strong news judgment, politics and government coverage experience, quick decision-making, collaboration, coaching ability, and proficiency with ENPS; Adobe Premiere experience is preferred.

The Human Resources Director will lead HR initiatives, drive employee development, manage compliance, and advise leadership across multiple locations for Nexstar's business strategy.

The Vice President, Finance will oversee the financial planning and analysis for the broadcasting division, lead budgets and forecasts, and mentor finance staff.

Lead growth for the Legal & Professional Services vertical by driving revenue, developing sales strategies, enabling teams, and enhancing client acquisition for law firms.

Anchor and report sports content across broadcast, streaming, digital, mobile, and social platforms. Cover Chicago professional teams and major events, develop original stories and exclusives via source building, produce and present multiplatform content, deliver live reports, maintain social presence, and collaborate with newsroom teams to drive audience engagement and station brand.

Lead WGN-TV's digital content, audience growth, social media, and streaming/CTV strategy; manage digital producers and staff; direct digital coverage for breaking news; set KPIs, drive SEO and analytics performance, and foster a digital-first newsroom culture to increase multiplatform engagement and viewership.