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Posted August 16, 2010 CBS Television has an Immediate Opening for a Freelance Publicist for an Upcoming Daytime Talk Show. CBS Television has an immediate opening for a Freelance Publicist for an upcoming daytime talk show. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience (Preferably working with a talk or news television show). Job Description:
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Referrals are welcome to contact via email at susan.kayl@cbs.com. Posted August 16, 2010 Fuel Industries is Looking for an L.A.-Based Public Relations Director New generations want a fresh approach to entertainment. We know that kids are online—and we see it as an opportunity to help blur the lines between "digital content" and "Saturday morning cartoon." Beginning with vibrant characters and storylines that rival major studios, Fuel Entertainment's properties are created with today's emerging audiences in mind and crafted specifically so that they can be leveraged into multiple touch-points—to spark imagination wherever your viewers go. From its award-winning MMO Spark City on AllGirlArcade.com, to its multi-platform properties developed with partners like Wildbrain!, Fuel Entertainment is where imagination meets interactivity. Fuel Entertainment, part of Fuel Industries, is currently looking for a dynamic PR person to join the team on a part time basis in our LA location. Responsibilities:
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Posted August 5, 2010 Beck Media & Marketing has an immediate opening for an Account Team Leader. The position reports directly to the agency President. Responsibilities include:
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This full-time, staff position is based in our Los Angeles headquarters. Compensation is commensurate with capabilities and relevant experience, and include a generous commission structure for new business development. Medical, dental, 401k/profit sharing, birthdays off, and continuing education are included in our benefits package. After learning more about Beck Media & Marketing, qualified candidates may submit a resume and cover letter to jobs (at) beckmedia (dot) com. Posted June 29, 2010 PR Manager, E! This position reports to the director for consumer publicity. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: 4-6 years of consumer television publicity experience in a Publicist position is required and publicity experience with a cable network, in “Breaking News” and/or related entertainment company is preferred. Must have excellent written and oral communications skills. Attention to detail and strong organizational skills a must, as is the ability to juggle many tasks at one time and change gears quickly. Must be highly self-motivated with strong organizational skills and have the ability to thrive independently in a flexible, fast-paced team environment. Resumes can be sent to resumes@comcastnets.com. Posted June 29, 2010 Publicity Assistant, Fox Broadcasting Company This position’s primary functions are to support the day-to-day functions of the Vice President of Publicity and to coordinate department-wide projects for all FBC series. Additional functions include: assist with various events, junkets, publicity initiatives and promotional programs; liaison with FBC departments; assist with event logistics and staffing; maintain weekly status reports, reaction grids and publicity/event calendar for all FBC series; oversee the fox screening room including working with vendors and press; as well as assist publicists as needed. Also, serves as back-up assistant to SVP, Publicity & Corporate Communications, as well as VP of Corporate Communications. Responsibilities:
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Please send resumes to jason.clark@fox.com. Posted June 22, 2010 Communication Director, The Alliance for Children’s Rights The Alliance for Children’s Rights, a dynamic non-profit founded in 1992 that provides free legal services to impoverished and abused children and youth in L.A. County, seeks a full-time Communications Director (CD). The CD’s primary responsibility is to communicate The Alliance’s messages to a variety of audiences through written materials, marketing pitches, website, online social networking, press placement, photos, and videos. The CD will work independently in a 1-person department but will work very closely with the CEO, the development team, program staff, board members and volunteers, in the course of implementing the communications strategy. The CD will be responsible for all materials and messages that go out to the child welfare, client and donor communities. The CD will provide program content for events and fundraisers and handle related public relations efforts. An ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, challenging work environment, be able to multi-task and handle various projects and deadlines simultaneously, be able to work effectively with a variety of constituencies including volunteers, and be a self-starter with the ability to both manage and execute a high volume work-flow. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Communicate Alliance messages and mission to engage and educate various audiences across multiple platforms, and act as a spokesperson when necessary. 2. Manage Alliance press and public relations effort in order to achieve substantive, positive coverage of our work and events, while maintaining a strong public voice in critical child welfare issues. 3. Write and execute on-time and compelling print and digital publications, including newsletters, e-blasts, appeals, manuals & brochures. 4. Manage an up-to-date, accurate, compelling and visually striking website and companion social networking sites for marketing and outreach; perform basic web maintenance and work with outside service providers. 5. Write, create and manipulate digital marketing materials and multi-platform pitch pieces for print and web, using photos, video, text etc in a variety of formats. 6. Work with event and fundraising team to develop compelling programs (speeches, themes, client stories) and companion materials (audio/visuals – photos, videos etc) for successful events. 7. Coordinate the creation of compelling video pieces for a wide audience for a variety of uses (events, web, presentations, pitches) on a limited, efficient budget and utilizing volunteer professionals. 8. Organize and effectively distribute expressive and visually striking photos of clients, donors, events etc for identity, marketing and branding efforts. 9. Engage with clients, youth council, program staff, and advocacy community to identify stories and key issues related to children served by the Alliance. QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Strong written, verbal and visual communication skills. Experience in interviewing and story-writing a plus. 2. Experience with press, media outreach, public relations. 3. Proficient computer and internet skills for marketing efforts; ability to work with various software programs (Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite). Experience and understanding of website use and maintenance a plus. 4. Basic knowledge (and ability) of video production and photography. Ability to converse in languages of graphic design, web/internet, video/photography. 5. Strong leadership, creativity and execution skills. Ability to create new ideas, self-direct, and implement projects. Ability to both manage and execute ideas in a 1-person department. Ability to delegate and work with interns and volunteers of all levels. Send inquiries to Janis Spire at janis@kids-alliance.org. Posted June 18, 2010 Communication Leader, Hulu CONTEXT: At Hulu we believe that the definition of a brand can be simplified down to that which people say about you when you are not in the room. What do we want people saying about Hulu when we are not in the room? At the highest level, we are going for lots of positive adjectives. Specifically, we aspire to create a company that users, content partners, advertisers, and team members unabashedly love. We believe that many things influence a brand. In Hulu’s case, that includes the quality of our service and the manner in which we conduct ourselves. This role – the role of leading Hulu external communications - is all about the latter. We have unusually high aspirations for the brand of Hulu and we believe this role will materially impact our brand. If you share our belief in the incredible power of communications that exhibit high judgment, are genuine, and reflect high integrity, then read on, as we believe this to be a special position that plays a big role as we pursue our mission. ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY: Reporting to the CEO, the Communications Leader at Hulu is the company’s authoritative, day-to-day voice and liaison with the world outside Hulu headquarters. While we are careful not to define this role in traditional PR terms (because we are not looking for someone that aspires to do a traditional PR role), there are certain responsibilities that are more familiar than others. Specific responsibilities include: • Partnering with and advising executive team on pro-active and strategic communications issues, developing messaging strategies and managing on-going response and follow-up. • Leading innovation and driving engagement in our social web presence while growing Hulu’s user/fan communities using creative, organic and entertaining methods that surprise and delight our customers. • Developing strong relationships with journalists across consumer, trade and business publications from print, online, broadcast and radio media outlets. • Partnering with Hulu’s internal teams to proactively identify and pursue news opportunities and strategies for media coverage. • Creating and reviewing all press materials including: news releases, media alerts, messaging guidelines, FAQs/rude Qs, etc. • Collaborating with Hulu’s technology, content and advertising partners to develop and execute on joint messaging strategies and tactics. • Creating, innovating and managing mechanisms that enable us to have ongoing and meaningful discussions with the press and our audience. One small example is our longstanding presence on Twitter. • Supporting Hulu spokespeople in all public speaking engagements, media interviews and conference participation. • Serving as Hulu spokesperson in any necessary external engagements. • Managing and mentoring the small, but hard working Corporate Communications team. Our aspirations for this role go beyond the list. In broad terms, this role is about taking Hulu to new levels via innovative, smart, and genuine communication with our customers. CHARACTERISTICS AND EXPERIENCE OF THE IDEAL CANDIDATE: Successful candidates will be defined by the following characteristics: - Demonstrated ability to independently represent and build long-term relationships with customers and partners on behalf of the company. High EQ. - Impeccable verbal and written communication skills. - Extremely high judgment. Internally, we consider this the ability to review a list of 100 reasonable things we could and want to do and then to choose correctly the 3 things that Hulu should do (and be able to explain why). - High horsepower. Related to judgment, the ideal candidate has large amounts of intellectual horsepower. - Demonstrated ability to think strategically across the business from the perspective of all Hulu customers—consumers, advertisers and content owners. - Proven anticipation skills and high judgment under fast-paced, ambiguous or high-stress environments - Unusually high quality bar (to the point that most reasonable people would consider it to be too high). - Atypical levels of tenacity. - Passion for the details. - Demonstrated success in a technology-oriented company. Hulu is a technology-oriented company and is not a good fit for people not attracted to and/or inspired by technology. - Passionate interest in technology and media trends and news. If you find yourself addicted to techmeme.com and mediagazer.com, that is a good sign. - Last but certainly not least in this list are the creative skills that the ideal person will possess. We believe that a huge opportunity for this role is to innovate and create opportunities that do not exist today. We believe the role of PR is ripe for re-invention. Ready to be innovated to a new level. We aspire to blaze new trails at Hulu and with this role specifically. We believe that the best way to do that is to boldly innovate…so candidates need to come with those skills innately. The above is not exhaustive, but rather, the ones that define us most. At the end of this document is a more complete picture of our culture and the kind of people that are attracted to and succeed at Hulu. EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS: Bachelors Degree required. Post-graduate degree(s) a plus. - 7+ years of professional experience with demonstrated success in a technology-oriented business. - Preferred: 7+ years of experience in product management, proactive media relations or in a related marketing functions. - This role is based in Los Angeles. - This role will require some travel including international. HULU’s CULTURE We believe that a company’s culture is often its most valuable asset. Cultures also happen to be something we have seen as impossible to copy. Additionally, once a culture is set, we’ve found them extremely hard to change. Given that a person’s fit with a given culture is so important to success, we want to share what defines Hulu’s culture and team, which we’ll do so below. Those that are inspired by the statements below are potentially great matches for the team. Those that are turned off or not inspired by the below statements are most likely not a good fit for Hulu. Given that life is short, we want to make sure we are upfront about what defines Hulu such that we attract people who are a great fit and respect the time of those that are not. What defines Hulu? These are the things that define Hulu. We are passionate in our opinion that the world has long since exceeded its quota in the mediocrity department. We believe our professional calling is to deliver quality. And not simply run-of-the-mill, five-star quality. For Hulu, nothing less than brain-spray awesome quality* will do, down to the finest detail. This atypically high quality bar leads us to sweat every pixel, every second of transcode, every customer. We have email conversations at 1:12 a.m. regarding how quickly we can make all of the Mary Tyler Moore Show embed screenshots 16:9 as opposed to 4:3 pillar-boxed. Mediocre companies sleep soundly with vertical black bars present. We are insomniacs in the presence of those waywardly rendered images. We believe customers will respond to this neurotic focus on quality. We are comfortable knowing that many reasonable people will consider our standards to be too high. We obsess over our customers. And we have several types of customers. Users. Advertisers. Content partners. Distributors. Each other. Delighting each of these customers is vital to our future. We believe that everyone on the team deserves to financially participate in the upside of Hulu (if we’re fortunate to create upside as a team). We go after world-class talent … around the world, in fact. We have attracted some of the best and brightest to our offices in Los Angeles, Beijing, NYC, and Chicago. Our expectations are extremely high and we hold ourselves accountable. We all do the dirty work. No one in the company sees themselves above any task. We’ve all QA’d countless video thumbnails, including the regrettable 1992 season of Tequila & Bonetti. We believe that Hulu’s trajectory will be a function of the strength of our ideas and the quality of our execution. We believe that neither groundbreaking ideas nor great execution are found exclusively at higher levels of an organization, particularly ours. Most times, it is just the opposite. Out of necessity as much as philosophical preference, Hulu prides itself on being a meritocracy. We bet on talent, tenacity, and quality bars … not previous titles. We are defined by our consistent bets on talent and potential. Our content acquisition team is run by a business leader from a CRM company, not a media industry veteran. Our ad platform is being built by a developer who spent the vast majority of his career creating databases, far removed from the world of online ads. And our video players – so key to the Hulu user experience – are written by two fresh graduates in China working at their first jobs out of school. We are in the business of building and innovating, so our internal focus is to deliver an environment that ideally serves this business of building and innovating. We invest in an open, casual, interactive work environment. We invest in whiteboard wallpaper. We invest in flat, highly talented teams. We invest in Costco snack runs, particularly the M&M trail mix. We see it as all of our jobs to make it as easy as possible for builders to build and for innovators to innovate. In this, we serve each other. Hulu is defined by its sense of urgency. We believe that the mission we’ve chosen will be achieved some day. However, it is absolutely uncertain whether Hulu will be the one to achieve it. Speed and strength of execution are vital. Our sense of urgency is simply a reflection of our understanding that the area in which we operate is a closing window of opportunity. We are frugal, and proudly so. We don’t have fancy offices or fancy furniture. Things like Fruity Snacks boxes hold up our monitors; turns out they do as capable a job as more expensive monitor stands. We pride ourselves on the relatively small teams that together form Hulu. We believe that the money we conserve through our frugality allows us to invest in our customers in ways others cannot. There are a number of things that don’t matter to Hulu. Some of these things include: impressive titles, swanky office furniture, hierarchy, and nice lunches (Quizno’s and the local taco truck are our staples). Though most people profess not to care about these things, we’ve found that many people actually do care about these things. That is fine, but it also means that Hulu would be a very bad match for those same people. While we take our mission extremely seriously, we don’t take ourselves seriously and, in fact, embrace fun as often as we can find it. Our Ping-Pong table is important to us, as are the new-hire nicknames, taco-eating contests, and Airzookas. Those looking for gravitas – which defines some of the best companies on the planet – will absolutely not find it at Hulu. We are defined by our humility. We are the same company that at one point was publicly christened by others as Clown Co. We are abnormally passionate about the subject space in which Hulu operates. To us, the intersection of technology and great content like Family Guy, Arrested Development, and 30 Rock is inherently fun. This is a fortuitous thing, given that we think it would be a shame not to enjoy the adventure immensely. If you’d see this as all just software code to you, then there are a lot of places that you should be other than Hulu. We realize that our undertaking is both bold and incredibly ambitious. We are aiming to dramatically improve and change the way that media is distributed, discovered, and consumed. This adventure is not for the faint of heart. Achieving our mission will require highly unusual levels of tenacity, along with plenty of good timing and good fortune. The kind of tenacity that enabled two highly talented software developers to write the entire front end of the Hulu beta in less than 85 days. We are defined by the judgment that Hulu team members possess. In a list of 100 things that Hulu could do, we pride ourselves on having the judgment and courage to say no to 97 and yes to a carefully considered three. And those three things are not typically obvious to many outside the company. One of our first features? To send our users to other sites that many view as competitors. We saw it as a great chance to help users. These are the things that define Hulu. * “My first Hulu experience made my head explode in a brain-spray of awesome.” – Marisa Wegrzyn, “Chainsaw Calligraphy,” Chicago, Illinois. March 15, 2008. To apply for this job, contact Thomas Wedewer at thomas@argossearch.comor 415-392-3363. Posted June 6, 2010 Senior Publicist CTD is seeking an experienced P.R. practitioner to handle day-to-day publicity for high-rated syndicated television shows. Responsibilities for Los-Angeles based position include show and talent publicity, photo and electronic clip selection and dissemination, interaction with affiliate relations and other key departments. Exceptional writing skills a must. Travel will be required on occasion. Extensive television publicity experience preferred. Experience in syndication industry or the station community helpful. Please send your resume to ctdpublicity@cbs.com. Posted May 7, 2010 Manager, Communications and Publicity, TV Guide Network and TVGuide.com TV Guide has an immediate opening for a Communications & Publicity Manager supporting its Network and digital businesses. This is an incredible opportunity for a smart, highly motivated individual to be part of evolving businesses co-owned by Lionsgate, the world’s leading next-generation studio, and One Equity Partners, the private equity arm of JPMorgan Chase. TV Guide Network is distributed in more than 80 million homes nationwide and TVGuide.com reaches 21 million unique users per month. TV Guide Network is a true entertainment insider and the only network that celebrates Hollywood, its stars and the shows that fans adore. Committed to buzz-worthy, breakout programming and a rich, multi-platform viewing experience, TV Guide Network is home to some of America’s fan-favorite series including “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Weeds” and “Ugly Betty.” The network also takes fans behind-the-scenes of Hollywood with original programming that delivers the latest news on entertainment and pop culture, as well as live coverage of the industry’s biggest events such as the Red Carpet at the Academy Awards. TVGuide.com is a one-stop entertainment destination for online television, news, community and TV listings. The site’s Online Video Guide allows users to watch virtually any and every available full-length TV episode from all the major broadcast and cable television networks. General Responsibilities: The ideal candidate will be a solid communications practitioner with strong media relations and writing skills with the ability to think creatively about how to best publicize the network, its programming and its digital media business. The Manager will be responsible for generating editorial opportunities for TV Guide Network’s shows and on-air talent with both traditional and new media. Writing press releases, media advisories and other creative copy on-deadline will be required on a regular basis. Reporting to the Vice President of Communications & Publicity, the Manager must be able to work well in a team environment. This person will interact regularly with senior management, programming executives, marketing team, scheduling department, market research group and on-air talent. The Manager will be supported by the department’s shared coordinator and will also assist the VP in overseeing the network’s PR agency. Other activities include: • Fostering positive relationships with consumer and entertainment media with particular emphasis on TV writers/critics, talk show bookers, print weeklies and online bloggers • Writing press releases and other press materials on a weekly basis • Securing press interviews and TV appearances for on-air talent and editorial staff; accompanying talent during media interviews as needed • Overseeing publicity for TVGuide.com and its executives • Recommending and executing creative publicity tactics that will help TVGN generate tune-in and buzz for its shows • Managing and updating TVGN’s press web site on an ongoing basis Requirements: • 5-7 years of PR experience preferably in television business • Demonstrated abilities in media relations and established contacts with the consumer and entertainment press; media references will be required • Excellent writing skills; writing samples and test will be required • Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations or Journalism Contact: Please email resume and salary requirements to: resumes@lionsgate.com
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