Anchor(Sports) / MSJ

Job Summary: WZZM 13 ON YOUR SIDE in Grand Rapids is looking for an experienced, engaging and enterprising contributor to join our team as a Sports Anchor and Multiskilled Journalist! The ideal candidate will be a key contributor to our overall content strategy and must be eager to produce great stories on their own or with a team by capturing compelling video and interviews for our linear and various digital platforms.
We are looking for someone committed to being a local sports expert on all things high school sports and local college sports in west Michigan.
The right person for this job goes beyond the highlights of games and builds sportscasts with moments and great storytelling. You must be passionate about all things sports including various stories, perspectives, and points of view.
Responsibilities:
• Develop story ideas, write, shoot and edit news stories for on-air broadcasting and digital platforms.
• Write in an exciting, captivating and authentic manner.
• Use the latest editing and photography tools to tell great stories.
• Develop original content through social listening and independent sources.
• Use your skills to produce different sportscasts and specials that aren't afraid to break the mold.
• Deliver on-air events in an engaging, exciting, and accurate manner.
• Interview news subjects and research for facts and credibility.
• Develop sources that allow you to break stories.
• Write and post daily on all digital platforms including social media.
• Enterprise sports stories.
• Shoot, write and edit packaged reports.
• Write for the web, including attaching images and streaming video.
Job Requirements:
• BA/BS in journalism or a communications-related field preferred.
• Ability to shoot/edit content on your own and with a team.
• Possess a clear understanding of the tenets of professional journalism.
• Committed to developing contacts and sources to aid in newsgathering.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and react in live situations to cover breaking news.
• Contribute ideas for daily content and recognize angles, perspectives, and interview that would make for urgent or interesting sports stories.
• Research stories to ensure accuracy, write clearly in broadcast style, and present stories in an engaging and compelling manner.
• Demonstrate a strong work ethic, positive attitude, and ability to collaborate.
• Knowledge of ENPS and Edius preferred.
Work Environment: Office
Physical Demands: Light work
Travel: Rarely: less than 10%
Work Environment Set: Office: normally performed in a typical interior/office environment
Physical Demands Set: Light work: Involves sitting most of the time, walking, lifting, bending, standing, etc.
About TEGNA
TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) is an innovative media company that serves the greater good of our communities. Across platforms, TEGNA tells empowering stories, conducts impactful investigations and delivers innovative marketing solutions. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA is the largest owner of top 4 network affiliates in the top 25 markets among independent station groups, reaching approximately 39 percent of all television households nationwide. TEGNA also owns leading multicast networks True Crime Network and Quest. TEGNA Marketing Solutions (TMS) offers innovative solutions to help businesses reach consumers across television, digital and over-the-top (OTT) platforms, including Premion, TEGNA's OTT advertising service. For more information, visit
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