Weekend Anchor / MSJ

Job Description

WJZ-TV Baltimore has an opening for an experienced Weekend Morning Anchor/Reporter to join our news team. The ideal candidate is an outstanding communicator on air, online and on social media platforms. This role demands credibility, confidence, and a dynamic on-air presentation. This anchoring role is for our morning news, so candidate must have the ability to deliver hard, breaking news as well as ad lib and have a personality that lends itself to doing interviews and feature segments. This role requires range of presentation, with 3 hours of anchoring Saturday and 2 hours of anchoring Sundays. The candidate must be able to gather and anchor breaking news with a high degree of skill and passion. When the newscast is over, candidate then reports. This position should lead to back-up anchoring weekdays.

Required Skills/Experience:
- Report live and on tape, scripted and unscripted, with clarity, accuracy and confidence
- Collaborate effectively with a wide range of people to create compelling content

– Demonstrate accuracy and fairness on air.

Preferred Skills/Experience:
- Social media savviness
- Experience shooting and editing

Education Level: College degree or equivalent experience

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gx8kxz-18-208-187-128-42 in your application.