NEWS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR - WEAU

About Gray Media:

Gray Media, or Gray, is a multimedia company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, formally known as Gray Television, Inc. The company is the nation's largest owner of top-rated local television stations and digital assets serving 113 television markets that collectively reach approximately 36 percent of US television households. The portfolio includes 77 markets with the top-rated television station and 100 markets with the first and/or second-highest-rated television station, as well as the largest Telemundo Affiliate group with 43 markets totaling nearly 1.5 million Hispanic TV Households. The company also owns Gray Digital Media, a full-service digital agency offering national and local clients digital marketing strategies with the most advanced digital products and services. Gray's additional media properties include video production companies Raycom Sports, Tupelo Media Group, and PowerNation Studios, and studio production facilities Assembly Atlanta and Third Rail Studios.

About WEAU:

Gray Digital Media (GDM) is one of the nation's largest full-service in-house digital agencies. With presence in over 114 markets across the USA, GDM is a leader in digital marketing, optimizing campaigns instead of products and working with businesses to identify, understand, and achieve goals, ultimately driving ROI. WEAU 13 News, the NBC affiliate in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, is owned by Gray Media Inc., the second-largest broadcast and digital media group in the nation. A market leader in news, digital, and social media, WEAU 13 News covers 26 counties in Western Wisconsin and Southern Minnesota.

Job Summary/Description:

WEAU is looking for a creative and enthusiastic Assignment Editor to join our team. We are looking for a candidate who loves a quest for knowledge, who can put together a complex puzzle even when one piece is missing, and who wants to make the newsroom operations an important part of their career. The ideal candidate must be able to own breaking news logistics while having excellent news judgment. In addition, successful candidates must have an understanding of coverage on all platforms and are expected to help generate story ideas. Our Assignment Editors work in collaboration with our Newscast/Digital Producers and are trained to distribute content on all our platforms. If you have a passion for journalism, a knack for multitasking, and the flexibility to adapt.

Duties/Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead daily AM/PM news meetings.
• Maintaining the daily planner in ENPS.
• Maintain contact with various police, business, and government agencies.
• Communicating daily coverage plans with Gray Media stations, network affiliates, and others.
• Confirm breaking news and re-assign crews to cover.
• Funnel confirmed information to producers during breaking news.
• Posting content to the website.
• Coordinating live shot assignments with photographers.
• Assigning news stories to photographers.
• Working with the newsroom management team to coordinate weekend news coverage.
• Fulfilling regional/network content requests.
• Ability to work varying shifts, including nights, overnights, and weekends.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Strong news judgment, ethics, and knowledge of legal standards are a must.
• Must be extremely aggressive in pursuit of breaking news and verification of unconfirmed information.
• Familiarity with the use of social media as news-gathering tools.
• Excellent writing, grammar, and copy-editing skills.
• A minimum of 2-3 years’ experience working on a local TV news assignment desk is preferred.

If you feel you’re qualified and want to work with a great group of people, go to https://gray.tv/careers#currentopenings, you may type in the job title, station call letters, or click on "apply now", include resume, cover letter, and references

(Current employees who are interested in this position can apply through the Gray-TV UltiPro self-service portal)

WEAU-TV/Gray Media is a drug-free company

Additional Info:

Gray Media provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Gray Media complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Gray Media expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Gray’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

Gray Media encourages all new employees to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus virus before the first workday.

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