Sr. Counsel, NBCU News Group

NBCUniversal News Group & the Legal Department NBCUniversal News Group includes NBC News, Telemundo Network and NBC and Telemundo Local Stations. Across digital and television, the News Group reaches more Americans than any other news organization. With bureaus around the world and across the United States, NBC News reaches its audience on broadcast television, digital, streaming, and audio platforms. Its leading and award-winning television news broadcasts include TODAY, NBC Nightly News, and Meet the Press. NBC News Now is the most successful free, ad-supported news streaming channel. NBC News also has several commerce businesses, including ShopTODAY. Dateline NBC is NBC News’ signature true crime newsmagazine, producing in-depth investigations and specials for NBCU and third-party platforms. On the air since 1992, Dateline is the longest-running primetime program on NBC and is widely distributed on linear, streaming and audio platforms. Anchored by Lester Holt with correspondents Andrea Canning, Josh Mankiewicz, Blayne Alexander and Keith Morrison, Dateline has been honored with broadcast journalism’s highest awards, including Emmys in the news and documentary category. NBC News Studios is a full-service production company that focuses on documentary features and series, narrative podcasts and scripted adaptations of NBC News IP. Leveraging the assets of NBC News, including eight decades of television and radio archive, a global network of journalists, a world-class investigative team, and a rich trove of editorial intellectual property, Studios develops and produces premium documentary series, specials and films for distribution on NBCU and third-party platforms. NBC News Studios has been honored with multiple Emmy awards and has premiered films at Sundance, Venice, Toronto, Telluride and Tribeca film festivals. Recent work includes Leguizamo Does America, The Sing Sing Chronicles with director Dawn Porter, winner of the Emmy for Best Documentary, Separated with director Errol Morris, The Debutantes directed by Contessa Gayles,The Disappearance of Shere Hite with director Nicole Newnham and The Thing About Pam, a scripted mini-series starring Renee Zwellweger, in partnership with Blumhouse Productions. With 42 NBC and Telemundo television stations in local markets across the country, covering English and Spanish languages, NBCU Local reaches nearly 50% of all U.S. households. Our local stations produce news programming (watched by an estimated 17M monthly viewers) and popular lifestyle shows in each of their markets. Telemundo Network produces and distributes Spanish-language news, sports and entertainment content to audiences around the world, reaching 94% of the U.S. Hispanic audience. Among the news division’s award-winning television programs are Hoy Dia, Noticias Telemundo and Al Rojo Vivo. The News Group legal team provides editorial, transactional and production legal support to News Group businesses and newsrooms, including NBC News, NBCU Local, and Telemundo Network. The team is primarily located in Rockefeller Center in New York City, with some lawyers based in Miami. Position Overview: The Senior Counsel will primarily focus on transactions in support of Dateline NBC and NBC News Studios. The Senior Counsel will also support longform and a range of commercial transactions across all News Group properties. Responsibilities: Support NBC News Studios, Dateline NBC and other News Group longform programming at all stages, from development/pitch, production and post-production to sale and distribution. Content types include unscripted and documentary series, specials, films, podcasts, scripted adaptations and events, across platforms including television, streaming, audio, and theatrical. Negotiate and draft deals for NBC News Studios and Dateline NBC (as the production company) and our news businesses (acquiring content from or co-developing content with a third-party production company). Deal types include shopping/development/attachment, production services, co-production, co-finance, director, executive producer, talent, consultant, vendor, theatrical distribution, licensing, and rights acquisition. Advise on related intellectual property, production, distribution, and marketing issues. In close collaboration with News Legal’s media law team, which provides editorial legal support to News Group journalists, advise on how to navigate potential rights, content liability, and similar issues that could affect production and distribution. Serve as a general legal and strategic advisor to NBC News Studios and Dateline executive teams on a range of legal issues, e.g., guild obligations, backend participation, intellectual property rights and protection, legal deliverables, artificial intelligence, security, compliance and other production-related issues. Negotiate and draft other general commercial agreements to support NBC News Group, such as events, content license, affiliate, sponsor, vendor, and partnership contracts. Substantive deal areas cover digital, streaming, audio, e-commerce, subscription, events, and editorial collaboration. Advise on strategy, deal structure, risk and dispute resolution. Improve and streamline contract templates and related processes to drive speed, efficiencies, and revenue. Partner and collaborate with colleagues in Legal, Finance, Tax, Risk Management, Content Distribution and other departments across the company. Work with IP Legal to register News Group content with the U.S. Copyright Office. Collaborate with lawyers supporting NBCU film and entertainment businesses to ensure consistency of terms and approach and best practices. Contribute to an inclusive, collaborative team culture; take initiative to deliver value; and support the production and distribution of the highest quality news content in the industry.