At a glance
- Experience
- 1-3 years experience
- Location
- KWES-TV Midland-Odessa
About the role
- KWES-TV Midland-Odessa, a TEGNA NBC affiliate, is seeking a creative, innovative, and enterprising Anchor who is an excellent on-camera communicator.
- The Anchor serves as a newsroom leader and one of the faces of the station, responsible for developing contacts and relationships in the community to present compelling stories.
- The role involves accountability reporting, breaking news coverage, and working with producers to develop smart and engaging newscasts.
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.
- Understand the tenets of professional Journalism.
Requirements
- Minimum 1-3 years 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.
- Develop original content through social listening and independent sources.
- 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 to enhance stories.
Preferred qualifications
- Journalism and/or Communication degree preferred.
- Excellent, creative presentation and writing skills a must
Benefits
- Two medical plan options through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas for full and part-time employees
- Access to dental and eye care coverage
- Fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance
- Disability and life insurance
- 401(k) program with 1% - 80% pre-tax contribution and 100% match on the first 4% of pay
- Nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc
- 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit
- Nine paid holidays per year
Skills
- Social Media
- Photography Tools
- Graphics
- Streaming Video