A friendly, affordable midwestern city with so much to offer. Work, play, and enjoy life in the “Gem City.” Dayton is known as the birthplace of aviation, and features a mecca of restaurants, festivals, museums, sports teams, and entertainment. Forbes named Dayton one of the top 20 best cities to live in as a career professional. Trulia ranked Dayton the #2 least expensive city to live in out of the top 100 metropolitan areas in the country. Come join a growing team and affordable midwestern city.
2 NEWS is looking for the next Multimedia Journalist to join our team. The ideal candidate should be a dynamic storyteller, with strong writing skills, active and engaging delivery, and a passion for journalism that impacts people in their daily lives. This MMJ will produce, report, shoot, write, voice, edit, and feed news production content for all platforms in a manner that is clear, engaging, and meaningful.
- Reports news stories for broadcast and digital platforms
- Pitches leadable, enterprise stories that are relevant to the local community
- Gathers information about events through research, interviews, experience or attendance at political, news, sports, artistic, social or other functions
- Arranges and conducts live and recorded interviews
- Reviews copy and ensures accuracy in content, grammar and punctuation following prescribed editorial style and formatting guidelines
- Ensures that all content meets company standards for journalistic integrity and production quality
- Interacts with viewers/users on digital platforms
- Performs special projects and other duties as assigned
Key traits & competencies:
- Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written with the ability to ad lib when required
- Minimum two years’ experience in news reporting preferred
- Engaging on-air presence
- Proficiency with newsroom technology
- Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize assignments and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Valid driver’s license with a good driving record
- Flexibility to work any shift
- Positive attitude and desire to grow skills
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What We Do
Nexstar Media Group is the largest TV station operator in the country. With the reach of 171 full power television stations in 100 markets addressing nearly 38.9% of US television households, and a diversified, growing digital media operation, Nexstar Media Group offers superior audience engagement across all media devices and local broadcast television’s unrivalled influence on consumers’ purchasing and political decisions.
In 20 years, Nexstar has grown from a single station to the nation’s largest television company. This growth is fueled by an organization-wide commitment to delivering exceptional service to our communities and outstanding results for our advertisers.
From the very beginning, Nexstar has cultivated an organization-wide commitment to providing superior, unique local content that is relevant to each of the communities it serves, while offering local businesses, advertisers and brands the ability to engage and connect with local communities.
