Multimedia Journalist

Job Description

Multimedia Journalist

About Gray Media:
Gray Media, or Gray, is a multimedia company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, formally known as Gray Television, Inc. The company is the nation's largest owner of top-rated local television stations and digital assets serving 113 television markets that collectively reach approximately 36 percent of US television households. The portfolio includes 77 markets with the top-rated television station and 100 markets with the first and/or second-highest-rated television station, as well as the largest Telemundo Affiliate group with 43 markets totaling nearly 1.5 million Hispanic TV Households. The company also owns Gray Digital Media, a full-service digital agency offering national and local clients digital marketing strategies with the most advanced digital products and services. Gray's additional media properties include video production companies Raycom Sports, Tupelo Media Group, and PowerNation Studios, and studio production facilities Assembly Atlanta and Third Rail Studios.
About KAIT:
KAIT 8 is located in beautiful Jonesboro, Arkansas, and serves Northeast Arkansas and Southeast Missouri. The station is the market's dominant news leader, holding the ABC, NBC, and CW affiliations. KAIT prides itself on being on the cutting edge of new technology in our industry.
Job Summary/Description:
KAIT is looking for an enthusiastic and energetic multimedia journalist to join its award-winning news team. The ideal candidate must be a great writer, a self-starter, digital-minded, social media savvy, and a good newsroom citizen.
Duties/Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Shooting, writing, and video editing daily content for broadcast, social, and web
- Ability to produce compelling live content for all platforms in the field
- Generating story ideas and building local contacts
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Journalism or Communications degree required
- Knowledge and understanding of all media platforms, including broadcast, digital, social, and mobile
- Knowledge of ENPS and other news programs, or ability to learn
- Experience with non-linear editing
- Act as a team player while displaying an ability to handle a variety of tasks, and make sound decisions in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, stressful environment
- All applicants must include a current reporter/MMJ reel
- Clean driving record required
If you feel you're qualified and want to work with a great group of people, go to https://gray.tv/careers#currentopenings, you may type in the job title, station call letters, or click on ''apply now'', upload your resume, cover letter, and references
(Current employees who are interested in this position can apply through the Gray-TV UltiPro self-service portal)
KAIT-TV/Gray Media is a drug-free company

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-369jxx-216-73-216-18-42 in your application.