Job Description
Responsibilities
We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we'll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.
NBCUniversal Local is NBCUniversal's local media division that delivers English and Spanish-speakers and bilingual audiences in 31 US markets and Puerto Rico, the very best in local sports, news, weather, consumer and investigative reporting, and lifestyle entertainment across any platform and screen. NBCUniversal Local is comprised of three individual media groups including the NBC Owned Television Stations, the NBC Sports Regional Networks and the Telemundo Station Group. The division is also home to multicast networks NBCLX, COZI TV and TeleXitos, the regional cable news network NECN, as well as NBC Spot On, an advanced video advertising business designed for local/regional CTV and OTT advertisers and several in-house companies including production company LXTV, marketing and promotions company Skycastle, its out-of-home business NBC Everywhere, and the Arthouse, a graphics design group. With seven regional sports networks and 42 NBC and Telemundo stations serving 38 percent of US homes, NBCUniversal Local is the only network-owned local media division that is home to the largest bilingual local newsrooms within the country's top 10 TV markets. NBCUniversal Local's stations and networks serve diverse audiences and communities across linear, streaming, OTT, digital web, mobile and audio, and cable platforms and work together to keep local audiences informed anytime and anywhere. For more information, visit NBCUniversal.com.
Job Description
Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra/NBC10 Boston and NECN, the NBC Owned Television Station news triopoly, is looking for a passionate, experienced, and innovative bi-lingual consumer investigative reporter to join the largest special projects unit in New England. You'll be working out of a new state-of-the-art broadcast media center that is home to the triopoly and NBC Sports Boston.
The successful candidate will be expected to enterprise and produce consumer news stories and contribute to major breaking news events for Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra and NBC10 Boston. We pride ourselves on being the only local news station committed to helping our viewers solve consumer problems and work to get their money back through our Responde brand. We are building a culture of innovation and experimentation. We are looking for a creative thinker who is willing to experiment with telling stories in non-traditional ways to reach new audiences across any device.
The applicant should have a good understanding of how to deliver meaningful and impactful stories for our digital and broadcast platforms. Applicant must be bi-lingual to produce content primarily for Telemundo and on occasion NBC10. An understanding of how to tell stories on our digital platforms is a must.
Responsibilities
• Research, develop, write, and produce enterprise consumer news stories
• Take ownership over our Responde brand by working to resolve consumer complaints from viewers, interview people we've helped and produce regular Responde packages for broadcast and digital.
• Generate long and short-term consumer news projects
• Enterprise consumer/investigative content across all on-air and digital platforms
• Develop and maintain sources that will generate exclusive reports
• Contribute research and analysis on major breaking news events
• Ability to add depth and provide context to big stories, especially consumer stories
• Strong ad-lib skills to calmly and effectively deliver news reports
• Collaborate with the news team including anchors, reporters, assignment desk, producers and digital team.
Qualifications
Qualifications/Requirements
• Minimum of 2 years' experience working as an investigative or consumer journalist
• Impeccable reporting and storytelling skills
• Bi-lingual in English and Spanish
• Demonstrated ability to use digital platforms to reach audiences
• Understanding of how to engage audiences on social media
• Ability to present stories for all station platforms
• Strong understanding and demonstration of editorial judgment and journalistic ethics, including a current knowledge of laws of libel, slander and applicable FCC rules and regulations
• Demonstrated ability to solve problems, prioritize decisions, and successfully manage multiple assignments concurrently in a high pressure, breaking news environment
Desired
• Understanding of computer-assisted reporting and working with spreadsheet programs
• Understanding of emerging news production techniques and technology, with a pioneering spirit and desire to learn emerging technologies and invent the future
• Good collaborative and interpersonal skills to communicate at all levels
• Believes that teams are smarter and more dynamic together
• Experience being actively engaged in editorial processes and meetings
Please include at least five examples of your best work on both broadcast and digital with your application.
Eligibility Requirements
Must be able to provide a reel/portfolio of work examples -- if available, include a web address when you submit your resume
• Must be willing to work in Needham, MA (Greater Boston)
• Must have a valid driver's license
• Must have a flexible schedule with ability to work any of a 24x7 shift and willingness to travel and work long hours and on weekends with short notice
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
Additional Information
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