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About this Digital Producer role at The Banner

The Banner · Onsite · Baltimore, MD

 

Join a Pulitzer Award Winning Newsroom!

About the role:

The Banner is seeking a Digital Producer to help publish and package our journalism across our website, app, newsletters, and alerts. This role partners closely with editors and reporters to elevate stories through smart presentation, strong news judgment, and audience-focused distribution. You’ll curate key surfaces like the homepage and app, write engaging headlines and promotional copy, and use performance data to help us reach more readers with the journalism that matters most.

What you'll do:

  • Produce and publish stories in our CMS, ensuring accuracy, clean formatting, and strong presentation
  • Write and optimize engaging headlines, social copy, push alerts, and promotional language across platforms with a focus on audience engagement
  • Curate the homepage, app, and article pages based on news value, audience demand, and performance data
  • Support distribution through newsletters, alerts, and social media posts
  • Monitor analytics to identify high-potential stories for packaging, promotion, and follow-ups
  • Assist with comment moderation and other digital operations as needed
  • Help maintain high editorial and style standards across digital platforms
  • Consider accessibility and usability in story presentation and reader experience

What you'll bring: 

  • At least 2 years of experience working in a digital or web production role for a publisher, preferably a news outlet
  • Familiarity with content management systems and newsroom workflow tools
  • Strong news judgment and a commitment to upholding journalistic values and ethics
  • Knowledge of SEO and audience strategy fundamentals
  • Experience with editing software is a plus (such as Canva, Veed and Descript)
  • Team-oriented with a collaborative mindset
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to give and receive constructive feedback
  • A commitment to upholding journalist values and ethics.
  • Willingness to work some nights and weekends as news dictates.

Salary Range: $65,000 - $75,000 Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by several factors including experience, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We periodically review all teammates pay to ensure a great compensation package that is fair and equal across the board.

Our amazing benefits include:

  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Human Interest, with a company match
  • Student Loan Debt Repayment Assistance for qualified employees
  • Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HSA., and coverage for family/dependents
  • Sick Leave eligible for rollover 
  • Commuter Benefits
  • 11 Paid National Holidays
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Generous Parental Leave
  • Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental, financial and physical wellbeing

Our Core Values:

  • Do what’s right. Honesty, morality, respect and the mission guide our actions and decisions. By doing the right thing, we inspire others to believe.
  • Work together. We collaborate to create something special. Together we challenge assumptions, trust each other, take risks, and foster transparent and direct communication.
  • Listen to be heard. Our stories are trustworthy. They are inspired by and created for our readers. Their story is our story. Communities are at the center of our journalism, and everything we do.
  • Deliver impactful results. Acting as one accountable team and driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, we deliver bold and innovative results. We act fast, execute and learn. We celebrate great outcomes.
  • Be inclusive. We celebrate the uniqueness of each individual and act by curating a culture that leverages diverse perspectives as the key to fulfilling our mission. The Banner is for all of us.

The Venetoulis Institute embraces diversity and inclusion, and we are wholeheartedly committed to being proactive in inspiring a culture of inclusion across our organization. We are dedicated to establishing an organization that reflects the fundamental respect for different ways of working and living, and we assure every employee the opportunity to reach their full potential.

We are dedicated to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require accommodation due to a disability to participate in the application process, please contact [email protected] to request accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may include, but are not limited to, adjustments in the application process, modifications or assistance regarding job interviews, and accommodations to enable access to our facilities. We appreciate the value that individuals with disabilities bring to our workforce and encourage applicants with disabilities to disclose their needs for accommodation to facilitate a smooth and inclusive recruitment experience.

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How this Producer salary compares

This role pays $70,000/yrbelow the typical range for Producer roles.

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Typical range $80,000–$135,000/yr, from 155 comparable Producer listings on JobsRadar (pay annualized to USD). See Producer salary insights →

About The Banner

Who We Are

The Banner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit newsroom founded to bring high-quality local journalism across Maryland. We are creating a vibrant, strong, trustworthy, and sustainable news organization, seeking to re-imagine the future of local news. Using a multi-platform news operation, covering a broad range of topics from local government to culture and the arts. We tell stories that reflect the community, connecting neighbors, holding government institutions accountable and making sense of the world. All this work is grounded in truth. We believe we can contribute to a more vibrant, informed and whole Baltimore, surrounding counties and state of Maryland. 

Our Mission and Vision

Our mission: To be an indispensable resource that strengthens, unites, and inspires Maryland communities. We will accomplish this through unbiased quality journalism that tells the varied stories of our people, holds our leaders accountable, and delivers local news that readers are willing to support.

Our vision: To be the leading provider of news and lifestyle content in the Baltimore metro area.

Come Work With Us

The Banner Covers all of us. We embrace the uniqueness of each person on our team, encourage collaboration, and create a space for individual capabilities to be activated, thereby leading to a feeling of belonging & engagement.

We are dedicated to establishing an organization that reflects the fundamental respect for different ways of working and living, and we assure every employee the opportunity to reach his or her full potential.

Your career journey is a story unfolding. Are you ready to write your next chapter with us?

Our amazing benefits include:

  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • 401K Matching
  • Student Debt Loan Repayment Assistance
  • Leadership and Professional Development 
  • Medical, Dental, Vision Benefits
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Commuter Benefits
  • 11 Paid Holidays
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Parental Leave
  • Free Subscription to The Baltimore Banner

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