Responsibilities

• Identify and pursue timely media opportunities for Blaze personalities, executives, and shows, including interviews, appearances, commentary, features, profiles, and other earned-media opportunities.
• Source and secure guests for Blaze shows, including high-profile or priority targets identified by hosts, producers, and leadership.
• Develop and execute outreach to secure appearances for Blaze hosts and talent on external television programs, podcasts, radio shows, digital platforms, and other relevant media.
• Manage inbound and outbound media opportunities from initial outreach through booking, scheduling, preparation, and follow-up.
• Build, maintain, and leverage strong relationships with journalists, producers, podcasters, bookers, hosts, editors, guests, and talent representatives to create a sustainable pipeline of media opportunities.
• Monitor breaking news, media coverage, social platforms, and emerging stories; research relevant reporters and outlets to identify timely opportunities and inform outreach.
• Partner with hosts and producers to understand guest priorities and maintain targeted booking lists based on host wish list, programming needs, current events, and strategic network priorities.
• Proactively pursue priority guests and hard-to-reach personalities through creative outreach and relationship-building.
• Draft and edit media pitches, press materials, talking points, and other external communications.
• Track and report on media placements, guest bookings, talent appearances, mentions, audience reach, and other indicators of media impact.

Requirements

• Two–Five years of experience in media relations, journalism, talent booking, broadcast, communications, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of the news cycle and how reporters, editors, producers, bookers, and digital media organizations operate.
• Highly proactive, persistent, creative, and resourceful, with the ability to create opportunities and identify alternative paths to reach high-priority guests, talent and media contracts.
• Excellent writing, editing, research, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to identify the newsworthy angle in a larger issue, initiative, or body of information.
• Strong organizational skills and strong judgment, with the ability to manage multiple active opportunities and deadlines while operating effectively in a fast-moving environment.
• Demonstrated experience securing media appearances, interviews, guests, or other media opportunities through proactive outreach and relationship-building.
• Established media relationships and an existing network of journalists, producers, bookers, podcasters, or other media contacts strongly preferred.

Preferred

• The strongest candidate will combine the instincts of a journalist with the organizational discipline of a communications professional. They should understand what makes an effective pitch, know when an opportunity is worth pursuing, and be comfortable handling the details necessary to turn an idea into an actual media appearance or placement.
• This role is particularly suited to someone who follows the news closely, writes cleanly, works quickly, is well organized and driven. Also, is energized by the challenge of turning relationships and ideas into meaningful media opportunities for a national media company.