Weekend Sports Anchor/Digital Producer
About The Position
KRQE News 13, is looking for a Weekend Sports Anchor/Digital Producer who lives and breathes local sports and storytelling. If you’re a go-getter who can shine on-air and thrive online — this role is for you. You’ll anchor weekend sportscasts, shoot and edit your own content, and deliver compelling sports coverage. During the week, you’ll shift gears into a digital role—writing, reporting, and promoting stories across platforms, while helping create and produce content for our CTV streaming service. We’re building a true multi-platform newsroom, and we want someone who can lead by example—bringing energy, creativity, and strong storytelling to every screen.
Requirements
- Degree in journalism
- Daily newspaper or news site experience required
- Live, working web samples and/or print pages preferred
- Proficiency in Associated Press style, Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Basic HTML preferred
- Maintain positive work environment through active team participation and cooperation with co-workers in all departments
- Responds positively to feedback
Nice To Haves
- CSS, Flash and other relevant technology skills is a plus
Responsibilities
- Develops and leads winning strategy for station content
- Expert understanding of Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms
- Reviews copy and will correct errors in content, grammar, and punctuation, following prescribed editorial style and formatting guidelines
- Use our Social Media and Website to build and reinforce brand recognition and drive viewers to television
- Determines a story's emphasis, length, and format, and organizes material accordingly
- Research and analyze background information related to news stories in order to be able to provide complete and accurate information
- Gathers information about events through research, interviews, experience or attendance at political, news, sports, artistic, social or other functions
- Pitches on-brand local and trending stories during morning meetings
- Checks reference materials such as books, news files or public records to obtain relevant facts
- Shoots and edits content for on-air and digital
- Produces reports for all platforms
- Ensures that all content meets company standards for journalistic integrity and production quality
- Builds and calendars digital campaigns to promote local shows and specials.
- Writes stories for the web and other digital platforms
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Finds new ways to use Social Media and our website to engage with viewers
- Anchoring weekend sportscasts
- Delivering compelling sports coverage
- Creating and producing content for our CTV streaming service
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
