Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Onsite
Position Title:
Senior Producer, CBC News Network, Early Dayside (English Services) (On-Site)Status of Employment:
PermanentPosition Language Requirement:
EnglishLanguage Skills:
English (Reading - P - Professional), English (Speaking - P - Professional), English (Writing - P - Professional)Work at CBC/Radio-Canada
At CBC/Radio-Canada, we create content that informs, entertains and connects Canadians on multiple platforms. Our successes and accomplishments are driven by embodying and upholding values, which include creativity, integrity, inclusiveness and relevance.
Do you think you have the ability and drive to keep up with this exciting, ever-changing industry? Whether it be in front of the camera, on air, online or behind the scenes, you would be joining a team that thrives on making connections and telling stories that are important to Canadians.
Unposting Date:
2026-07-14 11:59 PM
Based in Toronto, this is a full-time, permanent position, scheduled Monday to Friday. Hours will be decided by operational requirements.
CBC News is looking for a creative editorial leader with sharp news judgment, outstanding programming skills, and an audience-first mindset to lead the Early Dayside team at CBC News Network. In this pivotal role, you will shape compelling, platform-optimized content, with a strong emphasis on mobile and streaming audiences.
As Senior Producer, you will drive daily production operations with a hyper-focus on live and breaking news. You will conceive, plan, and shape dynamic news programming that brings compelling visual storytelling, captivating on-screen presentation, and immersive live experiences to our audience. You lean into data, and use it to drive audience-focused strategies for your team.
You are expected to steer daily editorial meetings, stimulate creative discussions, and identify the most impactful stories and treatments for the day. You must be able to react decisively to major news developments, track stories in real-time, reshape shows on the fly, create live content optimized for on-demand audiences, and seamlessly pivot to extended, wall-to-wall coverage when the news demands it. Extensive control room skills and hands-on experience working within an automated broadcast environment are essential to succeed in this fast-paced setting.
Beyond production, the Senior Producer must be a change leader, able to galvanize and lead teams through transitions in priorities, roles and responsibilities. You must see change as an opportunity to evolve. Guiding a team of up to 15 staff members, you will provide meaningful, constructive feedback, guide complex editorial judgments, and actively teach advanced writing and producing skills. You are responsible for cultivating a highly creative, respectful, and inclusive newsroom culture.
Reporting to the Executive Producer of Live & Daily News, Dayside, you are accountable for driving CBC’s strategic goals, including working across platforms to drive stories to meet audience needs no matter where they consume our content. You ensure all programming is of the highest quality and strictly adheres to CBC’s Journalistic Standards and Practices. By collaborating seamlessly across all CBC platforms, you ensure we are always where the news is live, helping our audience make sense of the world from any device.
Key Tasks
● Editorial Direction: Determine story priorities, develop innovative content strategies, and expertly guide teams through live, breaking, and ongoing news coverage. Guide the team on story length, deadlines, updates, and visual treatments.
● Live Experience: Develop & practise a culture of embracing breaking news and leaning into developing stories with a disciplined focus on audience needs and CBC News strategy. Collaborate with radio, streaming and digital to ensure a full live experience across all platforms.
● Manage Production & Broadcast: Exercise editorial responsibility over daily production and live broadcasting. Co-ordinate resources and determine the look, style, and pace of the lineup to maintain consistency with network mandates. Thrive under intense deadline pressures.
● Supervise Assignments: Oversee the daily writing, researching, gathering, editing, and distribution of content to ensure alignment with the CBC News editorial strategy and opportunities for cross-platform collaboration.
● Change Agent: Drives continuous improvement, agile and adaptable in transforming newsroom structures and roles and lead transitions. You understand what motivates people. You welcome feedback and carefully consider that input as you align your team around shared goals. You celebrate success.
● Foster Collaboration: Facilitate open, inclusive story meetings. Encourage story pitches and development. Collaborate across CBC News platforms to co-ordinate content, such as guest chases, raw footage, clipped material.
● Team Leadership: Actively support staff development, provide ongoing constructive feedback and coaching. Connect regularly with senior leadership about staffing and scheduling requirements and team culture.
● Champion Audience Growth: Translate insights and data to guide content decisions to expand our reach to new and younger news consumers, and to deepen our engagement with all Canadians.
● Maintain Standards: Strictly uphold CBC’s Journalistic Standards and Practices at all times.
● Operational Support: Step in to perform all or part of the functions of an equivalent or lower classification as needed.
Qualifications
● Experience: Minimum of seven years in broadcast journalism, with a university degree or college diploma in journalism, video production, or a related field.
● Live Broadcast Expertise: Proven experience directing live and breaking news programming, including production planning and resource coordination. Demonstrated ability as a programmer with a keen ear for pacing, tone, and visual presentation.
● Technical Proficiency: Mandatory experience taking programs to air in an automated control room, alongside highly developed production skills for a variety of formats.
● Critical thinking: Exceptional problem-solving skills to navigate fast-moving, high-pressure news situations. You're adept at verifying and fact-checking content.
● Broad Knowledge Base: Deep interest and understanding across topics such as politics, business, science, sports, entertainment, and health.
● Mentorship Skills: Superior coaching abilities to support developing journalists, veteran staff, and on-air hosts. Exceptional communication, organizational, and feedback skills.
● Industry Awareness: A deep commitment to public broadcasting, understanding of modern industry trends, ability to identify legal and ethical issues in journalism, and application of CBC’s Journalistic Standards and Practices.
Operational requirements:
This is a full-time permanent position and you must be able to work on-site in the CBC Toronto Broadcast Centre. You will be expected to work overtime, including early mornings, evenings and weekends if news is breaking. Familiarity with technology including iNews toolbar, DTV, Avid Media Central, Ross Overdrive, and Google tools for content creation, distribution, and planning.
Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.
We thank all applicants for their interest, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
As part of our recruitment process, candidates who advance to the next
step will be asked to complete a background check. This includes:
A mandatory Criminal record check.
Other background checks may be conducted based on the operational requirements of the position.
CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to being a leader in reflecting our country’s diversity. That’s because we can only create and tell the stories that connect Canadians, by having a workforce that mirrors the ever-changing makeup of our country. That’s why we, as an employer, value equal opportunity and nurture an inclusive workplace where our individual differences are not only recognized and valued, but also extend to and pervade all the services we provide as Canada’s public broadcaster. For more information, visit the Diversity and Inclusion section of our website. If you have accommodation needs at this stage of the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible by sending an e-mail to recruitment@cbc.ca.
You are invited to consult and familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct, which can be found on our corporate website. All employees must adhere to the Code as a condition of employment. We also invite you to take a look at our policy on conflicts of interest. In the event that you become an employee, it will be important to inform us, as quickly as possible, of any situation that, because of your hiring, constitutes or could appear to constitute a conflict of interest.
Primary Location:
Broadcast Centre 205 Wellington St. W., Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3G7Number of Openings:
1Work Schedule:
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