Job Abstract:
ABC7/WLS, the ABC Owned Tv station in Chicago, IL has a gap for a collaborative anchor/reporter who’s liable for taking possession of, and dealing with producers and reporters/colleagues to craft excessive impression content material on linear and digital platforms. The candidate additionally units the tone for teamwork and excellence throughout the station and throughout the station group. The anchor/reporter is an empathetic and moral information chief who’s dedicated to uncovering and reporting the information, and with integrity above all else. She or he have to be a staff participant, compelling journalist, and inclusive storyteller with the flexibility to authentically have interaction and join with a various viewers. Moreover, the anchor/reporter should display a full understanding of the highly effective voice and accountability journalists should, and with, the communities they serve. This place will anchor 4 hours of reports every Saturday and Sunday morning and report three days every week.

ABC7 is dedicated to recruiting and retaining workers who mirror the communities we serve, in any respect ranges of the corporate. We anticipate our workers to have a excessive diploma of ethics and a robust capability to work on a staff whereas displaying empathy and inclusion. We additionally try to create content material that authentically engages and connects with our numerous viewers.

Primary {Qualifications}:
-Minimal of three years of TV information expertise as an anchor / reporter
-Distinctive reporting, writing and interviewing expertise
-Means to supply and generate impactful enterprise leads, and create impactful content material counting on vital relationships with native information makers
-Be tenacious of their capability to uncover tales by means of investigation and analysis
-Material experience in telling excessive impression tales in breaking information protection, and skill to display this from the anchor desk and within the discipline
-Means to report, write, seize visible content material, edit and produce tales for a number of platforms on deadline, comparable to owned and distributed digital and social platforms
-Lively use of social media for promotion and information gathering

-Demonstrated capability to maneuver an viewers between linear and digital platforms
-Willingness to steer and mentor
-Display a robust dedication to the neighborhood, which incorporates representing the station and collaborating at numerous neighborhood occasions

Most popular {Qualifications}:
-At the least 5 years’ expertise and former anchor expertise most popular.

Required Schooling:
-A school diploma or equal. Most popular emphasis in journalism or a associated discipline.

Further Info:

This position is taken into account on-site, which implies the worker will work from a Firm designated location on an ongoing foundation.

To use, please go online to: https://jobs.disneycareers.com/ and seek for Job ID: 981941BR or use the hyperlink:

https://jobs.disneycareers.com/job/chicago/wls-anchor-reporter/391/30095525936

Reporting Location – Chicago, IL

About Disney Media & Leisure Distribution:

Comprised of the Firm’s worldwide enterprise models and numerous direct-to-consumer streaming companies, Disney Media & Leisure Distribution (DMED) aligns expertise, media distribution and promoting gross sales right into a single enterprise phase to create and ship customized leisure experiences to shoppers around the globe.

About The Walt Disney Firm:

The Walt Disney Firm, along with its subsidiaries and associates, is a number one diversified worldwide household leisure and media enterprise with the next enterprise segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio leisure, shopper merchandise and interactive media. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio within the Nineteen Twenties to its preeminent title within the leisure business at the moment, Disney proudly continues its legacy of making world-class tales and experiences for each member of the household. Disney’s tales, characters and experiences attain shoppers and friends from each nook of the globe. With operations in additional than 40 nations, our workers and solid members work collectively to create leisure experiences which might be each universally and regionally cherished.

This place is with WLS Tv, Inc., which is a part of a enterprise we name Disney Media & Leisure Distribution.

WLS Tv, Inc. is an equal alternative employer. Candidates will obtain consideration for employment with out regard to race, shade, faith, intercourse, nationwide origin, sexual orientation, gender identification, incapacity or protected veteran standing. Disney fosters a enterprise tradition the place concepts and selections from all individuals assist us develop, innovate, create the very best tales and be related in a quickly altering world.