Correspondent

Job Description

Job Description
This role reports firsthand information of news events national and international. The news correspondent provides to the audience context, analysis, and different perspectives.

Responsibilities:
• Daily coverage of news events primarily from the Los Angeles bureau and surrounding areas.
• Provide live on-air reports.
• Contribute to the editorial line of the day pitching stories and exclusive reports or interviews.
• Travel to cover breaking news or scheduled news events.
• Work in a fast paced, dead-line driven environment for the late newscasts and weekend. Also, flexibility to work the early morning shift and adapt to last-minute schedule changes.
• Actively search for content in all platforms including social media and streaming.
• Write compelling and accurate scripts.
• Work in collaboration with assignment editors, executive producer, producers, and writers.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in journalism, Communications, or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a newsroom in Spanish
• Experience creating digital video content in a newsroom is helpful.
• Strong editorial knowledge
• Proven solid writing skills and editorial judgment. Strong storytelling
• Ability to work under tight deadlines to write headlines and edit video for live digital broadcast.
• Fluent in English and Spanish (both written and verbal)
• Available for early mornings, nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Social Media knowledge
Eligibility Requirements:
• Must be willing to work in the greater Miami, Florida area.
• Must be 18 years or older.
• Must have a valid driver's license.
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
• Must be covered by Solutions, NBCU's Alternative Dispute Resolution Program

Desired Characteristics:
• Accustomed to working in a team and collaborating with all levels within the organization.
• Proven excellent people skills combined with a strong sense of how to visually tell a compelling story.
• Outside of the box thinker
• Proficient in I-News, Media Central helpful

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-j65ez0-3-16-91-85-42 in your application.