Weekend Sports Anchor/Digital Producer

KRQE News 13, is looking for a Weekend Sports Anchor/Digital Producer who lives and breathes local sports and storytelling. If you’re a go-getter who can shine on-air and thrive online — this role is for you.

You’ll anchor weekend sportscasts, shoot and edit your own content, and deliver compelling sports coverage. During the week, you’ll shift gears into a digital role—writing, reporting, and promoting stories across platforms, while helping create and produce content for our CTV streaming service.

We’re building a true multi-platform newsroom, and we want someone who can lead by example—bringing energy, creativity, and strong storytelling to every screen.

• Develops and leads winning strategy for station content
• Expert understanding of Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms
• Reviews copy and will correct errors in content, grammar, and punctuation, following prescribed editorial style and formatting guidelines
• Use our Social Media and Website to build and reinforce brand recognition and drive viewers to television
• Determines a story's emphasis, length, and format, and organizes material accordingly
• Research and analyze background information related to news stories in order to be able to provide complete and accurate information
• Gathers information about events through research, interviews, experience or attendance at political, news, sports, artistic, social or other functions
• Pitches on-brand local and trending stories during morning meetings
• Checks reference materials such as books, news files or public records to obtain relevant facts
• Shoots and edits content for on-air and digital
• Produces reports for all platforms
• Ensures that all content meets company standards for journalistic integrity and production quality
• Builds and calendars digital campaigns to promote local shows and specials.
• Writes stories for the web and other digital platforms
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Finds new ways to use Social Media and our website to engage with viewers

Requirements & Skills:

• Degree in journalism; daily newspaper or news site experience required; live, working web samples and/or print pages preferred
• Proficiency in Associated Press style, Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Basic HTML preferred
• CSS, Flash and other relevant technology skills is a plus
• Maintain positive work environment through active team participation and cooperation with co-workers in all departments
• Responds positively to feedback