Role Summary
NBC Connecticut is looking for a creative and driven journalist to join our team. The ideal candidate will understand how to tell a powerful story on all platforms, leaning into different techniques that meet audiences where they are. We’re looking for someone who reports, shoots, writes, voices, edits and feeds your content for all relevant platforms, assigned by leadership.
Essential Functions
- Generate story ideas, research and set up the content and interviews, produce the content in the field, write and voice the story, and present the story as scheduled on a designated platform.
- Partner with news producers, managers and photographers to conceptualize, write, edit, and produce station news packages. Produce additional video and graphic presentations as requested.
- Collaborate with our multiplatform leadership to create specialized daily content for social media platforms, including our website and app.
- Research and analyze background information to verify information. Select video and coordinate the editing and graphic design production for material that appears on-air.
- Review your own work, including correcting spelling and factual errors before sending in your scripts for approval.
- Communicate with news producer and managers regarding story development, progress in the field and/or breaking news stories.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment while maintaining high editorial standards.
- Build relationships with the community and community leaders for the purpose of developing connections to story leads.
- Establish network of contacts and sources across Connecticut. Cooperate with and support NBC News, Newschannel and other Owned Television Stations.
- Participate in station-sponsored events and all assigned special promotions projects.