News Anchor

Job Description

News Anchor - WSAW

NEWS ANCHOR (MORNING) - WSAW

About WSAW:

WSAW is Wausau's first TV station, debuting in 1954. It is a CBS affiliated station that serves northcentral Wisconsin. Northcentral Wisconsin is known for its agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare and the area is a tourism destination. WZAW is Wausau's FOX affiliate and home of ''Packer Football'' airing more Packer regular season games than all other stations combined. WZAW produces local newscasts M-F at 4:00pm and 9:00pm.

Job Summary/Description:

WSAW/WZAW-TV is seeking an anchor to join our award-winning morning show Sunrise 7. This position requires a high level of creativity and communication. The ideal candidate must be able to produce and deliver a dynamic, compelling and understandable information our newscasts and digital platforms.
Our anchors must be able to work in a multi-platform environment and will contribute daily to our digital platforms, including social media and wsaw.com. Strong leadership, teamwork and accuracy are a must. Our anchors are involved in the community and involved in the newsroom. The person we hire must have a positive attitude and be an ambassador for the station by making personal appearances at community events. The ideal candidate will also be a coach to our younger reporters and producers. You will be expected to turn special reports and special content for Sunrise 7, as well as live report & field anchor during breaking news and community events. Bottom line: we're looking for a leader-someone who doesn't hesitate to make decisions and get the job done and someone who can work closely with the rest of the team to create engaging newscasts.

Qualifications/Requirements:
- Excellent writing skills, news judgment and ethics
- Degree in Journalism or Communications
- Driven to enterprise organic news content
- Understands digital/new media platforms and strategy
- Smooth and effective delivery of content for live broadcast
- Strong work ethic, organizational and leadership skills, and the ability to make deadline
- Integrity, accountability, teamwork
- Must be able to carry 35 pounds of gear
-Familiarity with ENPS, Grass Valley Edius, Sony XDCAM cameras and Arc Publishing preferred.

If you feel you're qualified and want to work with a great group of people go to https://gray.tv/careers#currentopening, you may type in the job title, station call letters, or click on ''apply now''

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gxnb11-3-137-161-222-42 in your application.