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News Anchor / MMJ

WLBT

Jackson, MS 09-20-2022
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Mid (2-5 years) Experience
Job Description
News Anchor / MMJ - WLBT

NEWS ANCHOR/MMJ (W/END) - WLBT

About WLBT:

WLBT is Mississippi's flagship station and the dominant #1 local TV and digital media in Central Mississippi. We are an NBC affiliate that consistently produces award winning local news coverage. Jackson, MS is market #97 with a 24 county DMA. It is Mississippi's largest TV market and state capital, offering great museums, several local universities, and home to the largest medical facilities in the state, including the prestigious University of Mississippi Medical Center. With our great weather, Mississippi is about the outdoors. An extensive network of walking, running and cycling trails is available across the metro. And if you love a weekend getaway, Jackson is located within a short drive from beautiful Gulf Coast beaches, New Orleans, Memphis, Birmingham, Nashville, Dallas and Atlanta.

If you're a sports fan, we have you covered. The Mississippi Braves, the AA team of the Atlanta Braves, calls metro Jackson home. We host the PGA with the Sanderson Farms Championship. We have two SWAC schools in our DMA, Jackson State and Alcorn State. If you love SEC sports, we have four schools (Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Alabama and LSU) less than three hours away. And Saints, Pelicans and Grizzlies fans have an easy drive to NOLA and Memphis.

Learn more about WLBT - Jackson, MS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0lccLR6Nic&feature=youtu.be

Job Summary/Description:

Are you ready to grow your anchoring skills? WLBT in Jackson, the number one news media organization in Mississippi is looking for its next newsroom leader. If you want to guide our viewers through breaking news, investigations and the complex issues of the day from a brand new, visually compelling studio, then please consider joining us as our next News Anchor. There will also be story-telling from the field. This person will anchor weekend newscasts and tell stories as a MMJ.

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Lead our coverage from the studio and the field
- Shooting, writing and editing daily content for newscasts and digital platforms
- Compelling live reporting, including breaking, planned and feature coverage
- Operating portable live unit
- Generating story ideas and building local contacts

Qualifications/Requirements:
- 2+ years as an Anchor or MMJ in television newsroom preferred
- Journalism or Communications degree or equivalent work experience preferred
- Proven writer
- Investigative journalism experience: a plus

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

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g602xj-3-22-61-246-42 in your application.

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