News Anchor-MMJ

About the role

A dynamic, energetic, and self-motivated individual responsible for writing, producing, and presenting accurate balanced daily news stories for the station’s newscast.

Essential Functions

• Produces content daily for live newscasts and pre-recorded newscasts where applicable.
• Researches, investigates, writes, produces, and anchors general news or special news assignments-recorded and/or live from the studio/field.
• Produces newscasts rundowns.
• Works closely with Assignments Editor, Producers, MMJs and all other staff to ensure all stories are updated and fact checked.
• Ability to create original content and stories for daily newscasts when applicable.
• Attends and participates in off-site company-sponsored and community events as assigned by station management.

Competencies

• Technical Capability.
• Strategic Thinking.
• Communication Proficiency.
• Leadership.
• Teamwork.

Required Education And Experience

• Minimum of 2-5 years experience anchoring/reporting in television news with an emphasis on “live" studio and “in-the-field" reporting in a small to medium TV market.
• Experience with iNews.
• Must have experience developing contacts, producing hard news stories.
• Must be able to interpret and translate from English to Spanish accurately.
• Strong computer skills and knowledge of television equipment and editing software (Adobe platform).
• Excellent and accurate grammatical Spanish and English language skills-both written and oral.
• Bilingual English/Spanish is required.

Preferred Education And Experience

A college degree in Journalism, Radio/Television or related field from an accredited University preferred

POSITION TYPE/EXPECTED HOURS OF WORK

This is a Full Time position. Actual schedule and hours may vary.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY

Reports directly to News Director