Weekend News Anchor / MMJ

Job Description

Weekend News Anchor / MMJ - KTIV

About Gray Media:

Gray Media is a leading media company that owns and operates high-quality stations in 113 television markets that collectively reach 36 percent of US television households.

We constantly strive for excellence. Through upgrading to the latest technology and seeking new ways to stay on top in our markets, we focus on training and development of the best and brightest employees in the business.

About KTIV:

KTIV News 4 is the #1 station in Sioux City, Iowa, and the local leader in news coverage on-air, online, and on the go. KTIV, Siouxland's News Source, is the award-winning, dominant NBC affiliate located in Sioux City, Iowa, and serves viewers in NW Iowa, NE Nebraska, and SE South Dakota. KTIV News 4 is a breaking news and weather station covering local, original stories in the tri-state area. We are ''Siouxland's News Source''.

Job Summary/Description:

KTIV is seeking a Weekend Evening Anchor / MMJ to join our newscasts. The right person needs to be a great communicator on-air and online. The right person is the newsroom leader on weekends. They must have a great attitude and work well with others. Their relationship with those on the assignment desk and reporters in the field is critical to a quality product. A strong on-air, conversational presentation is a must. You'll work three weekdays as an MMJ. You produce and anchor the evening newscasts on the weekends and help update the station website and social media.

Duties/Responsibilities included (but are not limited to):
-Developing and executing unique content daily, in collaboration with newsroom management.
-This person must be creative, energetic, competitive, and a problem-solver with strong communication and reporting skills.
-The ideal candidate demonstrates compelling storytelling, photography, and videography skills that go beyond press release.
-Can quickly confirm and send out rapidly developing stories on air and online.Strong on-air delivery and speaking voice

Qualifications/Requirements:
-Excellent writing skills, news judgment and ethics
-Degree in Journalism or Communications
-Driven to enterprise organic news content
-Understands digital/new media platforms and strategy
-Smooth and effective delivery of content for live broadcast
-Strong work ethic, organizational and leadership skills, and the ability to make deadline
-Integrity, accountability, teamwork

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

(Current employees who are interested in this position can apply through the Gray-TV UltiPro self-service portal)

KITV-TV/Gray Media, Inc. is a drug-free company

Gray Media encourages all new employees to vaccinate against the coronavirus before the first workday fully.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rz76jq-3-136-22-150-42 in your application.