What are the responsibilities and job description for the Weekend Anchor / MSJ 3162 Job at Texas Association of Broadcasters in Beaumont position at Texas Association of Broadcasters?
Category : Media - Journalism - Newspaper
Position / Title : Weekend Anchor / MSJ 3162
Details : About TEGNA
TEGNA Inc. (NYSE : TGNA) serves local communities across the U.S. through trustworthy journalism, engaging content, and tools that help people navigate their daily lives. Through customized marketing solutions, we help businesses grow and thrive. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches approximately 100 million people every month across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. For more information, visit TEGNA.com.
KBMT 12News (ABC / NBC Beaumont, Texas) is hunting for our next dynamic journalist to lead our weekend coverage. The ideal candidate for this position can expect to produce and anchor all weekend evening shows while reporting 3 days a week. The reporting and anchoring will both require establishing sources, pitching unique story ideas, strong writing and news judgement skills. You’ll also be required to engage with the community both through your social media accounts and at community outreach events.
A little about this market. It’s busy. This is a perfect market to cut your teeth on breaking news, weather coverage and the growth of a community. There’s a lot to cover here. We train our staff to support one another no matter their job description. We have a fun newsroom but know how to pull the trigger on outstanding news coverage when big events happen.
DEMO REEL REQUIRED
Responsibilities :
- Anchor newscasts and report as assigned
- Generate unique, compelling and innovative story and show ideas and content for all platforms
- Have strong, captivating and authentic writing style
- Be able to shoot, write and edit packages
- Present news in a conversational, engaging way and be able to adlib with professionalism and accuracy
- Work as a member of a team to create fast-paced and informative content
- Have an excellent grasp of social media for news gathering and distribution and for community engagement
- Cultivate diverse sources and contacts within the community
- Contribute to multiple platforms on a daily basis, including images, packages, articles and social media posts
Requirements :
Benefits :
TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.
Our 401(k) program offers full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one.
Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.
TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year.
EEO statement :
TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. We value and consider applications from all qualified candidates without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, disability, medical condition, enrollment in college or vocational school, political affiliation, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. TEGNA will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application, please email askhr@tegna.com.
Recruiting Fraud Alert :
To all candidates : your personal information and online safety are important to us. Only TEGNA Recruiters or Hiring Managers will reach out to you regarding consideration of your application or background. Communications with TEGNA employees will either come from a TEGNA email address with a domain of tegna.com or one of our affiliate station domains.
Recruiters or Hiring Managers will never request payments, ask for financial account information or sensitive information such as social security numbers.
Vacancy Type : Full Time
Date Posted : 2 / 26 / 2025
Closing Date : 5 / 27 / 2025
City : Beaumont - 77701
State : Texas
Contact : Apply Online URL :
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