Breaking News Reporter Job at Hearst, Birmingham, AL

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  • Hearst
  • Birmingham, AL

Job Description

Job Description

As a Breaking News Reporter, 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. Writing clear, concise, and engaging breaking news stories for online and broadcast platforms under tight deadlines will be a key part of your responsibilities. Collaboration is essential in this role; you will work effectively with editors, producers, and fellow reporters to prioritize coverage and coordinate resources. Conducting interviews with eyewitnesses, experts, and officials to gather firsthand information will also be part of your daily tasks. You must remain adaptable and responsive to rapidly changing situations, adjusting coverage plans as needed. Utilizing multimedia tools and technologies to enhance storytelling and provide comprehensive coverage will be expected. Maintaining a deep understanding of journalistic ethics and standards, you will adhere to guidelines for fairness, balance, and impartiality in reporting, ensuring that our news coverage is both credible and trustworthy.

Additional 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
  • Responsible for swiftly and accurately reporting on unfolding events, emergencies, and significant developments as they happen during our newscasts from the studio
  • 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
  • Conducting interviews with eyewitnesses, experts, and officials to gather firsthand information will also be part of your daily tasks
Requirements
  • At least three years of professional work as a reporter or anchor.
  • College degree
  • 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

About Us

Hearst Television (HTV) owns and/or operates 35 television and two radio stations serving 27 media markets across 39 states reaching over 22 million U.S. television households. HTV is recognized as one of the industry's premier broadcasting companies and has been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism, industry innovation, and community service. Hearst

Job Tags

Holiday work, Flexible hours, Night shift, Day shift,

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