Specialist, Breaking News and Live
Description
- Lead daily and hourly programming blocks for live events, and breaking news windows for the streaming platform.
- Curate and adjust streaming feeds in real time based on the editorial agenda, breaking developments, and audience behavior.
- Ensure streaming content reflects the highest standards of journalism, editorial consistency, and brand integrity.
- Work in close partnership with Global News, Programming, and Editorial Planning teams to implement day-of coverage priorities.
- Coordinate with Linear Programming and digital Programming platform leads to ensure alignment on major live events, breaking news alerts, and push notification strategy.
- Collaborate with streaming producers, operations teams, and show leads to ensure the smooth execution of scheduled blocks and on-the-fly coverage shifts.
- Translate performance data and audience insights into actionable curation and merchandising decisions—across homepage programming, themed content, and campaigns.
- Adjust content packaging or editorial flow in response to audience behavior and engagement trends.
- Exercise strong editorial judgment in balancing newsworthiness, urgency, tone, and audience expectations in a live environment.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in live news production, editorial planning, or digital programming, ideally within a fast-paced newsroom or streaming environment.
- Deep understanding of real-time editorial decision-making and live content production for digital or streaming platforms.
- Strong editorial judgment and familiarity with domestic and global news priorities.
- Ability to interpret and act on audience data, performance metrics, and viewer trends to optimize real-time programming.
- Skilled in managing breaking news workflows and coordinating multi-feed experiences for varied audience segments.
- Clear communicator with strong organizational and leadership skills; able to manage complexity under deadline pressure.
- Comfortable collaborating across matrixed environments and with remote or hybrid teams.
- Passion for news, storytelling, and creating meaningful live experiences for digital audiencesHybrid Working - This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.
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**Overview** CNN Worldwide is a portfolio of more than two dozen news and information services across cable, satellite, radio, wireless devices and the Internet in more than 200 countries worldwide. Domestically, CNN reaches more individuals on television, the web and mobile devices than any other TV news organization in the United States. Internationally, CNN is the most widely distributed news channel reaching more than 260 million households abroad; and, the CNN Digital Network is consistently the No.1 current events and news destination on the web. CNN International is the most watched global 24-hour news network. CNN International can be seen in more than 260 million television households in more than 200 countries and territories through a network of 38 satellites. Since September 1997, CNN International has been regionalized into five separate regions: CNN International Europe / Middle East / Africa, CNN International Asia Pacific, CNN International South Asia, CNN International Latin America and CNN International North America. Additionally, CNN Newsource is the world's most extensively utilized news service partnering with hundreds of local and international news organizations around the world. CNN is division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company.