It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or physical or mental disability and to conform to applicable laws and regulations. Pursuant to rules of the Federal Communications Commission, we specifically encourage referral of qualified applicants.

 

POSITION:              General Assignment Reporter

 

AVAILABILITY:        A.S.A.P.

 

EDUCATION:          College degree preferred 

 

QUALIFICATIONS:  Applicant should have significant experience in general assignment reporting. Live television experience is a must. Should be reporting for at least two to three years in a medium sized market.  

                                   

DUTIES: Deliver reports for daily newscasts. Develop contacts, enterprise hard news stories write and produce packages and respond well to breaking and spot news. Ensure balanced and ethical presentation of the news. 

 

Must possess strong writing, producing, and reporting skills. Candidates 

must be able to enterprise unique content. Must meet deadlines. Must 

have excellent news judgment, good written, verbal and personal 

communication skills. Must be a strong team player. Prepare content 

for station website as needed. Need strong sense of current events, 

including local news and national news.

                                                             

MACHINES TO OPERATE:

iNews newsroom computer system and personal computer.

 

HIRING MANAGERS: Gail Bending and Chris Coleman Taylor

 

If you would like to apply, please note the requirements for the position and visit the new CBS Television Stations employment site. The link to the employment site is located on our website: www.wjz.com. There, you may submit your resume for this job as well as browse and apply for available jobs at all CBS locations. 

 

PLEASE DO NOT SEND RESUMES DIRECTLY TO WJZ. All applications must now be handled through the CBS Television Stations employment site.

 

Our company has developed an Affirmative Action Plan and is committed to its principles. Within our plan we have established goals for the recruitment of qualified members of certain protected classes.

You are encouraged to refer qualified applicants to us for this opening.     

 

Thank you for your assistance.  If you know of any other organizations, which may be of assistance in our equal employment opportunity effort, we would appreciate you forwarding that information to us at the above address, and direct it to the attention of Human Resources.