Anchor
About the role
Anchor a creative, innovative, and enterprising news program at WBIR-TV, a TEGNA NBC affiliate in Knoxville. Serve the community by reporting on accountability and breaking news, and engage with the audience through social media.
Responsibilities
- Use editorial judgment to help determine content of the newscasts.
- Work with producer and team to create unique, fast-paced innovative newscasts.
- Use social media to determine content of newscasts and highlight big social stories.
- Write and post daily on all digital platforms including social media.
- Develop story ideas, write, shoot and edit news stories for on-air broadcasting.
- Develop original content through social listening and independent sources.
- Perform other tasks as required by supervisor or executive producer.
Requirements
- Minimum 5-7 years news anchor/reporting experience
- Minimum 5-7 years news anchor/reporting experience
- Minimum 5-7 years news anchor/reporting experience
- Minimum 5-7 years news anchor/reporting experience
- Minimum 5-7 years news anchor/reporting experience
- Minimum 5-7 years news anchor/reporting experience
- Minimum 5-7 years news anchor/reporting experience
- Minimum 5-7 years news anchor/reporting experience
- Minimum 5-7 years news anchor/reporting experience
- Minimum 5-7 years news anchor/reporting experience
- Minimum 5-7 years news anchor/reporting experience
- Minimum 5-7 years news anchor/reporting experience
- Minimum 5-7 years news anchor/reporting experience
- Minimum 5-7 years news anchor/reporting experience
Qualifications
Journalism and/or Communication degree preferred.
Understand the tenets of professional Journalism.
Excellent, creative presentation and writing skills a must
Skills
Journalism and/or Communication degree preferred.
Understand the tenets of professional Journalism.
Excellent, creative presentation and writing skills a must
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families.
- Two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage.
- Fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance.
- Disability and life insurance.
- 401(k) program offering full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k).
- Teladoc and Spring Health wellness programs.
- Nine paid holidays per year.
Pay
TBD
Schedule
TBD
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families.
- Two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage.
- Fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance.
- Disability and life insurance.
- 401(k) program offering full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k).
- Teladoc and Spring Health wellness programs.
- Nine paid holidays per year.