Multimedia Journalist, Telemundo T40 McAllen

*Responsibilities • Responsible for gathering information on newsworthy events. • Write, produce and present fair and accurate news stories, as well as feature stories. • Maintain informed on news events locally and nationally. • Develop and maintain a network of contacts providing access to exclusive stories. • Investigate information to establish facts and determine truth. • Deliver copy ready from a Teleprompter or with no Teleprompter. • Gather information on newsworthy events and write, produce and present fair, accurate and unbiased news stories as assigned. • Be responsible for providing on-air news including both in studio and frequent field shoots. • Create, report and help produce news specials and packages, based on either breaking news or on pre-planned stories that were promoted ahead of time. • Assist producer in establishing sources, finding and executing enterprise news investigations, building and maintaining strong list of story ideas on a year-round basis, both long-term deeper digging stories and quicker turns, document acquisition and paper trails. • Send daily to the assignment desk an email with at least three story proposals. • Able to make phone calls to set up interviews. These calls may happen outside of regular working hours. • Be able to work nights and weekends. • Large community involvement, making a reasonable amount of appearances tied into the viewer community. • Work cooperatively as a team member under tight daily deadlines. • Gather news information and prepare for presentation in the newscast and all digital platforms. • Provide input to the show producer on show content and format. • Write stories headlines and news updates for television, online and digital platforms. • Present newscasts to the viewer in a professional manner. Responsible for the presentation of breaking news to viewers both during live newscasts as well as outside regularly scheduled newscasts. • Shoot and edit promos news material, bumpers, ID’s, show opens and marketing material, as well as gather information on newsworthy events. • Write, produce and present fair, accurate and unbiased news stories as assigned through the creative use of the video camera and proficient lighting and editing skills. • Will provide the viewer with a video story on a given topic as assigned. • Will operate video camera and recording equipment, live truck or live remote transmitting units and edit on Edius Pro editing systems. • Able to respond quickly to breaking news and take direction from, and interact with, the assignment desk, producers, reporters, anchors and production control room personnel. • Maintain technical equipment including cameras and lighting gear. • Manage project deadlines and deliverables.