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About Gray Media:
Gray Media, or Gray, is a multimedia company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, formally known as Gray Television, Inc. The company is the nation’s largest owner of top-rated local television stations and digital assets serving 113 television markets that collectively reach approximately 36 percent of US television households. The portfolio includes 77 markets with the top-rated television station and 100 markets with the first and/or second-highest-rated television station, as well as the largest Telemundo Affiliate group with 43 markets totaling nearly 1.5 million Hispanic TV Households. The company also owns Gray Digital Media, a full-service digital agency offering national and local clients digital marketing strategies with the most advanced digital products and services. Gray’s additional media properties include video production companies Raycom Sports, Tupelo Media Group, and PowerNation Studios, and studio production facilities Assembly Atlanta and Third Rail Studios.
Job Summary/Description:
WMBF News in Myrtle Beach, SC has an opening for a Multimedia Journalist (News & Sports) Reporter to join our award-winning newsroom. This person must have a passion to affect change and make a difference for our viewers. Our ideal candidate is an organized, independent, ethical journalist who can enterprise stories while thriving under deadlines. Applicants should also have outstanding live reporting skills.
Duties/Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
*Enterprise and develop stories daily
*Develop great sources and contacts
*Dig into complex and important issues
*Develop new and additional creative content specifically for digital and other platforms
*Shoot, write, edit, and present compelling stories, either solo or in collaboration with a photographer
*Write in an exciting, captivating and authentic manner
*Deliver on-air news in an engaging, exciting, and accurate manner
*Must be able to conduct interviews in a professional manner and research for facts and credibility
*Must be a visual storyteller; perform creative stand-ups and explanatory, moving live shots
*Evenings, weekends, mornings and holidays will be required
*Be willing to learn or possess a broad and working knowledge of the viewing area, including people, places, things, and history
*Use creative production techniques such as graphics and new forms of media to enhance stories
* Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications/Requirements:
*Degree in journalism, broadcasting, communications or related field
*At least 1 year of professional newsroom experience required
*An engaging and comfortable on-air personality to include live shots
*The ability and desire to enterprise and produce local news & sports stories
*Excellent communicator
*Team player with a positive attitude
*Understanding of the tenets of professional journalism
*Strong social media skills
*Organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work under constant time pressure deadlines is a must
*Ability to calmly handle live, breaking news situations and changing events
*Anchoring, reporting, producing experience preferred
* MVR Check.
If you feel you’re qualified and want to work with a great group of people go to https://gray.tv/careers#currentopenings, you may type in the job title, station call letters, or click on “apply now”, upload your resume, cover letter, and references.
https://gray.tv/careers#benefits
WMBF-TV/Gray Media is a drug-free company
Additional Info:
Gray Media provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Gray Media complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Gray Media expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Gray’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.