****-TV is looking to hire our next Assignment Editor. If you have a passion for finding stories, informing the public and working with a motivated team, we'd like to hear from you.
The successful candidate will have a take charge attitude when it comes to breaking news and digging for stories important to our viewers. We are looking for a bright, motivated assignment editor who finds distinctive enterprise stories and oversees news coverage that will set us apart from other *** outlets.
Job Responsibilities:
About Us
At *** Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That's why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization as diverse and varied as the audience we reach, ensuring that the content we create is more compassionate, and more representative of the communities we serve.
*** Television owns and operates 33 television and two radio stations serving 26 *** markets across 39 states reaching over 21 million U.S. television households. Through its partnership with nearly all of the major networks, *** Television distributes national content over nearly 70 video channels including programming from *** , *** , *** , CW, MY Net, MeTV, This TV, Estrella and more. The radio stations are leaders in Baltimore news/talk and rock music listenership. *** Television is recognized as one of the industry's premier companies and has been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism, industry innovation, and community service. *** Television is a wholly owned subsidiary of *** .
The successful candidate will have a take charge attitude when it comes to breaking news and digging for stories important to our viewers. We are looking for a bright, motivated assignment editor who finds distinctive enterprise stories and oversees news coverage that will set us apart from other *** outlets.
Job Responsibilities:
- Listen to multiple police scanners which cover dozens of agencies throughout our market.
- Gather and organize press releases, emails, phone calls, viewer tips and staff story ideas. Take initiative and decide which of the above will yield compelling content for newscasts.
- Assist news management with content gathering and planning.
- Assist producers, digital editors, reporters and photographers with story gathering.
- Keep track of crews in the field and maintain communication with them.
- Furnish content and post it to all digital platforms-including but not limited to posting video, posting to social *** and sending push alerts.
- Write articles for digital platforms.
- In-person attendance is required.
- Must have excellent news judgment.
- Must have experience listening to police scanners.
- Must have advanced knowledge of digital platforms, especially social *** .
- Must be able to multi-task, including, monitoring multiple social *** accounts in order to gather content and communicate with news makers while keeping in contact with crews, producers and news managers.
- Familiar with local newsgathering technology and terminology.
- Must be highly organized.
- Must be able to work multiple projects simultaneously.
- Must be able to foster and maintain professional working relationships with newsmakers.
- Must be able to gather information from multiple sources simultaneously and quickly send to news managers, anchors, reporters, photographers, producers and digital editors.
- Must have a sense of urgency and be able to thrive in a high-pressure breaking news and weather environment.
- Must have the ability to remain calm and level-headed during breaking news situations and when working on tight deadlines.
- Must have excellent communication skills.
- Must be able to work a variety of shifts including weekends, nights and holidays.
- Related experience and/or training considered as well as a combination of education and experience.
- *** Television is a proud supporter of military veterans. Related military training and experience will be considered.
About Us
At *** Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That's why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization as diverse and varied as the audience we reach, ensuring that the content we create is more compassionate, and more representative of the communities we serve.
*** Television owns and operates 33 television and two radio stations serving 26 *** markets across 39 states reaching over 21 million U.S. television households. Through its partnership with nearly all of the major networks, *** Television distributes national content over nearly 70 video channels including programming from *** , *** , *** , CW, MY Net, MeTV, This TV, Estrella and more. The radio stations are leaders in Baltimore news/talk and rock music listenership. *** Television is recognized as one of the industry's premier companies and has been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism, industry innovation, and community service. *** Television is a wholly owned subsidiary of *** .
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