Assignment Editor
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Job Description
WBBH the NBC affiliate in Fort Myers FL has an opening for someone who wants to win each day in the role of Assignment Editor. You can capture the essence of whats happening in the community and help to bring it home to our viewers. You will have a take charge attitude for breaking news. You find distinctive enterprise stories and oversee news coverage. As a newsroom leader your impact sets us apart. The successful candidate will also be responsible for providing assistance in the Digital role. You will report to the Managing Editor.
Responsibilities
- Listen to multiple police scanners which cover more than a dozen agencies throughout our marketmust have great scanner ears
- Gather and organize press releases emails phone calls and viewer tips. Decide which of the above will yield compelling content for newscasts
- Assist news management with content gathering and planning
- Assist producers digital editors and reporters with story gathering
- Keep track of crews in the field and communicate with them
- Write/edit and publish breaking news and weather daily news sports and feature stories for our station website and social media platforms
- Write compelling headlines; especially for mobile and social media and carefully create mobile push notifications for breaking news/severe weather
Requirements
- Experience listening to police scanners
- Experience with digital platforms especially social media. You will monitor multiple social media accounts to gather content and communicate with news makers
- Either have a working knowledge of FTP or will learn how to FTP video to other stations
- Familiar with local newsgathering technology and terminology
- Will maintain professional working relationships with newsmakers
- Can gather information from multiple sources simultaneously and quickly push it out to anchors reporters producers and digital editors or post it
- Be able to remain calm and levelheaded during breaking news situations
- Willing to work a variety of shifts including weekends and nights
- Excellent AP writing skills knowledge of video editing experience with social media best practices
- Related military experience will be considered
- Inperson attendance is required
Diversity Statement
At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures backgrounds perspectives and identities. Thats 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.
Benefits
Hearsts benefit programs are modern flexible and designed to focus on you. As a Hearst employee you and your spouse or partner or dependents would have access to the following benefits.
- Medical Dental Vision
- 401(k) matching
- Emotional Wellness Support
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- LGBTQ Health Services
- Additional benefits to meet your and your familys needs
Employment Type
Full-Time
