MMJ REPORTER (NEWS & SPORTS) - WMBF

GraymediaMyrtle Beach, SC
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About The Position

WMBF News in Myrtle Beach, SC has an opening for a Multimedia Journalist (News & Sports) Reporter to join our award-winning newsroom. This person must have a passion to affect change and make a difference for our viewers. Our ideal candidate is an organized, independent, ethical journalist who can enterprise stories while thriving under a deadline. Applicants should also have outstanding live reporting skills.

Requirements

  • Degree in journalism, broadcasting, communications, or related field
  • At least 1 year of professional newsroom experience required
  • An engaging and comfortable on-air personality to include live shots
  • The ability and desire to enterprise and produce local news & sports stories
  • Excellent communicator
  • Team player with a positive attitude
  • Understanding of the tenets of professional journalism
  • Strong social media skills
  • Organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work under constant time pressure and deadlines are a must
  • Ability to calmly handle live, breaking news situations and changing events

Nice To Haves

  • Anchoring, reporting, and producing experience preferred

Responsibilities

  • Enterprise and develop stories daily
  • Develop great sources and contacts
  • Dig into complex and important issues
  • Develop new and additional creative content specifically for digital and other platforms
  • Shoot, write, edit, and present compelling stories, either solo or in collaboration with a photographer
  • Write in an exciting, captivating, and authentic manner
  • Deliver on-air news in an engaging, exciting, and accurate manner
  • Must be able to conduct interviews in a professional manner and research for facts and credibility
  • Must be a visual storyteller; perform creative stand-ups and explanatory, moving live shots
  • Evenings, weekends, mornings and holidays will be required
  • Be willing to learn or possess a broad and working knowledge of the viewing area, including people, places, things, and history
  • Use creative production techniques such as graphics and new forms of media to enhance stories
  • Perform other job-related duties as assigned
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