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About TEGNA
TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) serves local communities across the U.S. through trustworthy journalism engaging content and tools that help people navigate their daily lives. Through customized marketing solutions we help businesses grow and thrive. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets TEGNA reaches approximately 100 million people every month across the web mobile apps streaming and linear television. For more information visitTEGNA.
KIII 3NEWS in Corpus Christi Texas the dominant local news station in South Texas is looking for a dynamic and engaging WEEKEND METEOROLOGIST and MULTISKILLED JOURNALIST. This person understands the weather conversation our audience is having with friends and how to engage and relate to them even on bright sunny days. We sit along the Texas Gulf so forecasting tropical storms and hurricanes in an easytounderstand way is of the utmost importance.
In addition to the forecasting credentials the ideal candidate is also a storyteller and ready to write and edit impactful news stories that reflect and improve our community.
Responsibilities:
What Youll Do:
Craft accurate and compelling weather forecasts on multiple platforms
Produce clean creative and informative graphics to tell the weather story
Prepare and deliver severe weather updates interrupting regular programming as necessary
Track the tropics providing insightful relevant coverage during hurricane season
Develop story ideas write and edit news stories for all 3NEWS platforms on deadline
Develop contacts and sources within the community to help with original storytelling and breaking news reporting
Front stories live from the field or studio with a strong oncamera delivery and ability to adlib
Why Youll Love It:
OUR VIEWERS: Our audience is loyal engaged and watching. As the No. 1 station your work will be seen by tens of thousands daily.
OUR CULTURE: We invest in our people and help them grow. Our team members have gone on to major roles at networks and large markets and were dedicated to helping you achieve your career goals.
OUR LOCATION: Corpus Christi is home to 315000 people larger than Cincinnati St. Louis and Pittsburgh. Live by the beach on the island or in the city youre never far from the water.
Requirements:
Ability to work various shifts including early mornings evenings and weekends
Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology atmospheric science or climate science
Knowledge of ENPS for scripting and Edius for editing a plus (preferred)
Texas/regional knowledge (preferred)
Benefits:
TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and parttime employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.
Our 401(k) program offers full parttime and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1 80 of their pay on a pretax basis to TEGNAs 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4 of pay are eligible for a 100 match from the company and are 100 vested from day one.
Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctors appointments with a physician through Teladoc and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.
TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as 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. For example some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union.
EEO statement:
TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We areproud to be an equal opportunity employer hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. We value and consider applications from all qualified candidates without regard to actual or perceived race color religion national origin sex gender age marital status personal appearance sexual orientation gender identity or expression family responsibilities disability medical condition enrollment in college or vocational school political affiliation military or veteran status citizenship status genetic information or any other basis protected by federal state or local law. TEGNA will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilitiesin accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application please email
Recruiting Fraud Alert:
To all candidates: your personal information and online safety are important to us. Only TEGNA Recruiters or Hiring Managers will reach out to you regarding consideration of your application or background. Communications with TEGNA employees will either come from a TEGNA email address with a domain of tegna or one of our affiliate station domains.
Recruiters or Hiring Managers will never request payments ask for financial account information or sensitive information such as social security numbers.
Employment Type
Full Time
