Sports Reporter Anchor

Job Description

Sports Reporter Anchor

SPORTS REPORTER/ ANCHOR (W/END) - WTOK
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 WTOK:
WTOK-TV is a trusted ABC network station with a history of serving the communities of eastern Mississippi and Western Alabama with top-rated news, weather, and sports. We also offer syndicated programming on the CW, myTOK, Gulf Coast Sports & Entertainment Network, and Telemundo Mississippi network. We take pride in serving our viewers, our community, and our advertisers for 71 years.
Our mission is to be engaged with the community and promote civic and economic development with a focus on improving the lives of our viewers. We use cutting-edge technology to provide accurate and timely news information on television and digital platforms.
Job Summary/Description:
There is nothing like SEC Football, Mississippi baseball championships, and Division one athletes in the SOUTH! WTOK-TV is in the middle of it all. We are two hours+ to powerhouse programs. We need a sports reporter/weekend anchor in Meridian, Mississippi, who we can coach to be the best in the business.
Duties/Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
The ideal candidate will bring high-energy creativity to our team of journalists.
- Should be able to develop local sources and contacts in the community.
- Excellent writer and should be able to shoot and edit.
- In addition to daily broadcast responsibilities
- Required to post stories to digital platforms and on social media.
- Shoot/write/edit stories and produce and present on-air sports segments for weekend newscasts (and fill in on weeknights as needed).
- Be expected to push the envelope in developing compelling visuals and daily presentations/live shots with a hyper-local focus on the East Mississippi and West Alabama region.
-Provide sports segments for newscasts as assigned, as well as on various digital platforms.
-Be ready and willing to work various schedules depending on the staffing needs of the station.
-Perform all the regular duties of a reporter, from story ideas to shooting, editing, and going live, as well as posting on digital and social platforms.
-Depending on Newsroom coverage needs, may be assigned to do general assignment news stories at the News Director's discretion.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- A Bachelor's degree in journalism, broadcasting, or communications is preferred
- Excellent writer with the use of sound
- Keen vision for live sports
- Understand complicated logistics in scheduling assignments
- Candidates must have previous experience shooting live, local sports events, demonstrate an ability to create compelling personal sports stories, and demonstrate a background and track record of social media engagement and interaction.
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)
WTOK-TV/Gray Media is a drug-free company

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-233jy7-216-73-216-161-42 in your application.