Digital News Producer, Social Media

The Associated Press seeks two social media content producers who are creative, passionate about experimentation and interested in joining our growing team of diverse journalists focused on digital audiences. We’re looking for two journalists with a deep understanding of how news travels on social media who can work collaboratively with teams from all parts of AP’s newsroom to develop content that helps grow our audience on social platforms and guides news consumers to APNews.com. In this role, you will be based in either New York or Los Angeles and report to the news editor for social media and audience engagement. Your top priority will be to create engaging, informative, visually stunning and entertaining content designed to connect with audiences across social media. You’ll manage production calendars and work with social engagement metrics to help create the highest value content and to understand when best to post it. You’ll also promote best practices in social content creation among AP’s news gathering and production teams around the world. As an AP journalist, you’ll also have the ability and willingness to work at night and on weekends as coverage demands.