Breaking News Reporter

WVTM, the NBC affiliate in Birmingham, AL, has an opening for a Breaking News Anchor. In this role, you will monitor multiple sources for breaking news stories, including wires, social media, and official channels. You will quickly verify information and fact-check sources to ensure the accuracy and reliability of news reports. Collaboration is essential in this role; you will work effectively with editors, producers, and fellow reporters to prioritize coverage and coordinate resources. You must remain adaptable and responsive to rapidly changing situations, adjusting coverage plans as needed. You will report to the News Director.

Responsibilities

• Gather information for stories and live reports for newscasts that could include mornings, nights, weekends, and holidays
• Coverage of breaking news, weather, and sports
• Swift and accurate reporting on unfolding events, emergencies, and significant developments as they happen during our newscasts from the studio
• Clear, concise, and engaging writing of breaking news stories for online and broadcast platforms under tight deadline
• Maintain a deep understanding of journalistic ethics and standards, adhering to guidelines for fairness, balance, and impartiality in reporting, ensuring that our news coverage is both credible and trustworthy.
• Monitor multiple sources for breaking news stories, including wires, social media, and official channels
• Quickly verify information and fact-check sources to ensure the accuracy and reliability of news report
• Utilize multimedia tools and technologies to enhance storytelling and provide comprehensive coverage
• Conduct interviews with eyewitnesses, experts, and officials to gather firsthand information will also be part of your daily tasks
• Anchor the midday newscast

Requirements

• Three years of professional work as a reporter or anchor
• Can deal with the stresses and pressures of time-sensitive newscast production
• In-person attendance is required

Diversity Statement

At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That's why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization as diverse and varied as the audience we reach, ensuring that the content we create is more compassionate, and more representative of the communities we serve.

Benefits

Hearst's benefit programs are modern, flexible and designed to focus on you. As a Hearst employee, you and your spouse or partner or dependents would have access to the following benefits.

• Medical | Dental | Vision
• 401(k) matching
• Emotional Wellness Support
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• LGBTQ+ Health Services
• Additional benefits to meet your and your family's needs

Every career with Hearst Television is like a story. How it develops, where it takes you, the milestones you reach along the way – you’ve got a lot to look forward to as your unique career story unfolds.

Hearst Television, a subsidiary of Hearst, owns and operates local television and radio stations serving 26 media markets across 39 states reaching over 21 million U.S. television households. Through its partnership with nearly all of the major networks, Hearst Television distributes national content over nearly 70 video channels including programming from ABC, NBC, CBS, CW, MY Net, MeTV, This TV, Estrella and more.

Hearst Television is recognized as one of the industry's premier companies. It has been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism and industry innovation, including the Walter Cronkite Award for political journalism, the national Edward R. Murrow Award, the DuPont-Columbia Award and the George Foster Peabody Award.