Assignment and Digital Editor
Hearst Television, Albuquerque, NM, United States
The story is yours!
Duration: Full Time
Assignment & Digital Editor
KOAT, the ABC affiliate in Albuquerque, NM., has an opening for someone who wants to win each day in the role of Assignment and Digital Editor. You can capture the essence of what's happening in the community and help to bring it home to our viewers both on-air and online. You will have a take-charge attitude for breaking news. You find distinctive enterprise stories and oversee news coverage. As a newsroom leader, your impact sets us apart. You will report to the Assistant News Director.
Responsibilities
- Listen to multiple police scanners which cover more than a dozen agencies throughout our market—must have great "scanner ears"
- Gather and organize press releases, emails, phone calls and viewer tips. Decide which of the above will yield compelling content for newscasts
- Assist news management with content gathering and planning
- Assist producers, digital editors and reporters with story-gathering
- Keep track of crews in the field and communicate with them
- Furnish content and post it to all digital platforms—including sending push alerts, Twitter and Facebook post
Requirements
- Experience listening to police scanners
- Experience with digital platforms, especially social media. You will monitor multiple social media accounts to gather content and communicate with newsmakers
- Either have a working knowledge of FTP or will learn how to FTP video to other stations
- Familiar with local newsgathering technology and terminology
- Will maintain professional working relationships with newsmakers
- Can gather information from multiple sources simultaneously and quickly push it out to anchors, reporters, producers, and digital editors
- Be able to remain calm and level-headed during breaking news situations
- Willing to work a variety of shifts including weekends and nights
- Related military experience will be considered
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 Hearst Television
Every career with Hearst Television is like a story. How it develops, where it takes you, the milestones you reach along the way – you’ve got a lot to look forward to as your unique career story unfolds.
Hearst Television, a subsidiary of Hearst, owns and operates local television and radio stations serving 26 media markets across 39 states reaching over 21 million U.S. television households. Through its partnership with nearly all of the major networks, Hearst Television distributes national content over nearly 70 video channels including programming from ABC, NBC, CBS, CW, MY Net, MeTV, This TV, Estrella and more.
Hearst Television is recognized as one of the industry's premier companies. It has been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism and industry innovation, including the Walter Cronkite Award for political journalism, the national Edward R. Murrow Award, the DuPont-Columbia Award and the George Foster Peabody Award.