Evening Anchor

WCBI-TV the CBS affiliate in Columbus Mississippi is looking for its next rising star to produce and
anchor our evening newscasts each weekday.
Responsibilities:
This ideal candidate should be passionate energetic able to connect with viewers on-air and be ready to
break stories in the field and on the desk. Our commitment is to tell our viewers stories in our shows and
across our digital will review scripts for newscasts and reporters in the newsroom. Your writing should be clearconcise and conversational. You will produce or help produce an informational accurate and want a versatile efficient ethical journalist that can make calls to sources to enterprise stories and dolive shots when needed to break down and deliver information in an easy-to-understand manner.
This candidate should also be able to research and tell complex stories for special reports and series.
Your anchoring skills should be polished and you should have the ability to ad-lib when necessary. You
should be able to work in a fast-paced deadline driven and sometimes stressful environment.
Our candidate should be active on social will make some appearances on behalf of the station.
You should have the flexibility to work varying shifts at times. This could include severe weather
elections or other impactful news want a leader in the newsroom that can mentor young journalists develop story ideas and run/beactive in our editorial meetings.

Experience using ENPS and Edius is a plus.

A clean driving record is required.

Two years of anchoring is preferred.

WCBI also wants someone that is a team player is a good newsroom citizen and encourages others to be
their best.

WCBI:
WCBI is a Morris Multimedia television station in Columbus Mississippi. We are located 25 minutes
from Mississippi State University 90 minutes from the University of Mississippi and 60 minutes from
the University of cover nearly two dozen counties mostly in northeast Mississippi and several in west in the heart of the Southeastern Conference theres no shortage of sports and outdoor are plenty of water opportunities as well from the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway to area lakesand state are a number of family friendly festivals and events in the area. We even cover the first hometownof Elvis Presley such as Paccar Steel Dynamics Toyota and Yokohama among others have plants in the are a quick drive to Memphis and Birmingham. Columbus is also a day trip about five hours to NewOrleans and Atlanta and a four-hour drive to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

How to apply:
Email a link to your reel to News Director Eric Lampkin: emailprotected