Responsibilities

• Assist in managing social schedules and posting engaging content to CT Public’s social media channels including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and more.
• Edit content by reporters, visuals journalists, hosts and contributors, and produce compelling and innovative social headlines, copy, and visual posts that adhere to journalistic standards, and fit audience needs for each platform.
• Engage and interact in a positive way with audiences on all social media platforms, offering helpful links or information when appropriate, and monitor comments to escalate audience feedback to various teams, as necessary.
• Execute and provide support for all social media activity, including daily posts on core platforms – iterate and improve social media schedule and content calendar.
• Monitor CT Public’s social media accounts for performance on each platform, working closely with the Social Media Editor to assess data, impact, and reach.
• React to the daily news agenda – think critically about big stories that are important to our audience in words, audio, photos, videos, graphics and more to determine best way to present information on social.
• Support community journalism engagement projects, including original reporting and visual storytelling in the field and in collaboration with the Social Media Editor.
• With guidance from the Social Media Editor, edit, build out and optimize the flow and placement of all news, talk and enterprise content onto all our social media platforms. Work with the Social Media Editor to make decisions on how original CT Public stories and visual content are packaged on social accounts.
• Write conversational copy, and create and edit clear, informational visual assets ( i.e. short-form videos, photos, graphics) for all social platforms.