Morning / Midday News Anchor

Job Description

Excited to grow your career?

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply! This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing news team as an on-air and behind-the-scenes leader to grow our morning and midday news blocks.
Our people make all the difference in our success.

WMBD-TV / WYZZ-TV is looking for a Morning/Midday News Anchor.
The ideal candidate is an excellent communicator with a superb on-air presence. This individual is energetic and can deliver everything from hard news to features with clarity and poise on-air, online, and on all other media platforms. Expectations will be that the person who fills this role will serve as more than an anchor, but can be a leader with our morning team, developing, directing and crafting content so that it is compelling and impactful.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
• Write clear and interesting copy while using video, natural sound and graphics to illustrate story facts and ideas.
• Build sources, lead community engagements, generate story ideas and participate in editorial meetings.
• Ensures that all news content meets company standards for journalistic integrity and production quality.
• Report live, scripted and unscripted with clarity, accuracy, and confidence.
• Responds to breaking news and other urgent newsroom situations as required.
• Writes content for the website and other media platforms.
• Interacts with viewers/users on social media sites.
• Participates in promotional activities, including public appearances.
• Performs special projects and other duties as assigned.
• Engage with our surrounding community and make an effort to meet and understand the issues impacting our viewers.
- Is actively engaged and contributing to decisions on content.
- Will occasionally be required to produce newscasts.

Requirements & Skills:
• 3 years journalism experience preferred.
• A college degree in Broadcast Journalism, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
• Natural newsroom leader who can take the lead on stories and also knows the importance of working together as a news team
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, with the ability to ad-lib when required.
• Excellent news judgment with expansive knowledge of local/national current events, history, newsmakers, issues.
• Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize assignments and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to effectively listen to fully understand problems and communicate with a team to shape a solution.
• Valid driver's license with a good driving record.

All internal employees must first contact their current manager before applying for an Internal position.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rzzn61-18-116-239-195-42 in your application.