Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Produces and presents sports reports for all platforms
- Ensures that all sports content meets company standards for journalistic integrity and production quality
- Writes and delivers sports stories in a clear and concise manner
- Helps in writing, copy editing, researching, and coordinating sports programming and other content
- Responds to breaking sports events and other urgent newsrooms situations as required
- Works closely with the sports team to develop comprehensive sports coverage
- Participates in promotional activities including public appearances
- Performs special projects and other duties as assigned
- Shoots video for sports reports
- Sets up, composes, and executes stories
- Maintains video equipment
- Edits video clips for television broadcasts and digital content
- Writes stories for the website and other digital platforms
- Interact with viewers and users on social media sites
Requirements & Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience
- Comprehensive knowledge of sports and sports-related activities
- Fluency in English
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
- Minimum two years’ experience in news/sports reporting (Depending on market size)
- Proficiency with computers, telephones, copiers, scanners, fax machines and other office equipment
- Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize assignments and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Ability to effectively listen to fully understand problems and communicate with a team
- Valid driver’s license with a good driving record
- Flexibility to work any shift
- Pre-employment background screen required
Demos, reel links, salary requirements please email to:
Sylvia Villarreal, News Director [email protected]
No phone calls please. Equal Opportunity Employer
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism or related field
- Comprehensive knowledge of sports
- Minimum two years' experience in news/sports reporting
What We Do
Nexstar Media Group is the largest TV station operator in the country. With the reach of 171 full power television stations in 100 markets addressing nearly 38.9% of US television households, and a diversified, growing digital media operation, Nexstar Media Group offers superior audience engagement across all media devices and local broadcast television’s unrivalled influence on consumers’ purchasing and political decisions. In 20 years, Nexstar has grown from a single station to the nation’s largest television company. This growth is fueled by an organization-wide commitment to delivering exceptional service to our communities and outstanding results for our advertisers. From the very beginning, Nexstar has cultivated an organization-wide commitment to providing superior, unique local content that is relevant to each of the communities it serves, while offering local businesses, advertisers and brands the ability to engage and connect with local communities.
