Weekend Anchor MSJ

TEGNA Inc. helps people thrive in their local communities by providing the trusted local news and services that matter most. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches more than 100 million people monthly across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news.

About the role

WWL-TV, a TEGNA CBS affiliate in New Orleans, LA, has an opportunity for a creative, innovative, and enterprising anchor who is an excellent on-camera communicator. We are looking for a journalist who excels at both hard news and feature reporting, including breaking news. This anchor should be comfortable asking tough but fair questions and must work with producers to develop smart and engaging newscasts. The anchor will serve as a newsroom leader and one of the faces of the station, developing contacts and relationships in the community to create and present unique, compelling, and innovative stories.

A current driver's license and the ability to operate a news-gathering vehicle are required.

Responsibilities

• Use editorial judgment to help determine the content of newscasts.
• Work with producers and team to create unique, fast-paced, and 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.
• Deliver on-air news events in an engaging, exciting, and accurate manner.
• Interview news subjects and research for facts and credibility.
• Enterprise news stories.
• Write for the web, including attaching images and streaming video.
• Use creative production techniques such as graphics and new forms of media (viewer pictures, webcam interviews, etc.) to enhance stories.

Requirements

• Minimum 3-5 years of news anchor/reporting experience.
• Develop story ideas, write, shoot, and edit news stories for television, mobile, and social platforms.
• Write in an exciting, captivating, and authentic manner.
• Use the latest editing and photography tools to tell great stories.
• Understand the tenets of professional journalism.
• Excellent, creative presentation and writing skills.

Journalism and/or Communication degree preferred.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical plan options through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as dental and vision coverage.
• Fertility, surrogacy, and adoption assistance.
• Disability and life insurance.
• 401(k) program with a 100% company match on the first 4% of pay, fully vested from day one.
• Nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc for all employees and eligible family members, regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans.
• Twelve free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit and nine paid holidays per year.

Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement, and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply.