Brian Heyman Email & Phone Number

Bethpage, New York, United States

• Manage eight in-house producers and six embedded producers to create website stories, including composing text, photo albums, social media and on-demand content for News12.com, a local news website that draws 9 million views per month and covers seven regions: Long Island, New Jersey, Westchester, the Hudson Valley, Connecticut, the Bronx and Brooklyn. • Curate and optimize News 12 homepages.• Programming, curation, development of News 12 New York streaming channel for Pluto, Tubi and other services.• Daily and long-term planning of digital content production.• Copy edit all digital content to Associated Press style.• Build daily digital news coverage in CMS.• Monitor Google Analytics, CrowdTangle, Chartbeat for trending topics to optimize website programming.• Coordinate breaking news coverage, including push alerts, email alerts and livestreams.• Field coverage for feature segments, including photographing events and producing content for News12.com and social media.• Managed staff through back- and front-end re-launch of News12.com.• Monitor news wires and determine important events to craft headlines for TV news crawl.• Program sponsorship logos on television news crawl.• Coordinated Murrow Award-winning News 12 Talks podcast unit.

• Wrote and published 10+ stories per day with video packages/graphics cut from newscasts. • Maintained on-air news headline crawls for seven local news regions.• Trained new staff, interns and freelance employees on procedure, technology, writing style.

• Wrote news, political and feature stories for Times of Smithtown.• Developed “Movers and Shakers” feature column, which highlighted professional accomplishments of local residents.• Contributed to year-end “People of the Year” issue.