Multimedia Journalist, Telemundo T40 Mcallen

Job Description
*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.