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Writer
Tribune Company
New York, NY, United States
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PIX11 News is looking for a highly motivated writer who can attract the attention of viewers with compelling storytelling in a highly competitive news market. You must get to the heart of a complicated story and make it easy for viewers to digest.
Responsibilities:
• Writes stories and promotion assigned by the executive producer.
• Logs media.
• Reads wires, internet, social media and monitors other broadcasts for late breaking stories for updated promotion opportunities.
• Assists reporters by taking scripts or other information from them by phone, email or any other means when they are in the field.
• Produces promotion for regularly schedule cut-ins or for special Reports.
• Must have line-producing and digital media experience.
• May have to produce other news programs as assigned.
• May be assigned to a variety of shifts including weekends and overnights
• May need to perform other duties including but not limited to teleprompter, traffic production, crawl and graphics.
Qualifications:
• College degree or sufficient maturity preferred.
• Prefer candidate have at least 3-5 years experience in broadcast or print journalism.
• Working familiarity with ENG (Electronic News Gathering) and SNG (Satellite News Gathering) operations, iNews, ENPS, Final Cut Pro, Avid and other Newsroom software programs.
• Individual could be considered if he or she has experience in another area of television news.
• Effective writing skills.
• Good organizational skills.
• Good communicator, both orally and written.
• Stays informed on current affairs.
• Can perform duties and make decisions under extreme pressure.
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States