Job Description

KRGV TV Channel 5 News (ABC) in the McAllen-Weslaco-Brownsville market (#80) is looking for a dynamic  News Reporter  to join the largest news operation in South Texas.

The successful candidate will be someone who has the ability to develop contacts and online sources to get a story that is uniquely yours. You must be able to dig, develop and reach out to sources within the community to find a story. The right candidate must have a minimum of 1-year experience reporting on-air at a commercial television news operation and must have a demo reel with reporting samples including packages, stand ups and live shots (if available) or a recent college graduate with television experience and a demo reel with packages, stand ups and live shots (if available). Former and current print/newspaper journalists are encouraged to apply despite not having television experience.

The Rio Grande Valley offers an excellent atmosphere for journalists looking to expand their enterprise reporting. Among the safest and affordable places in the U.S., the RGV has very little crime, great culture and the beautiful beaches of the Gulf of Mexico at South Padre Island.

This is a Full-Time position

RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Have a passion for storytelling and aggressively creating good content on all platforms.

· Show strong writing skills for broadcast and digital platforms

· Bilingual in Spanish is extremely helpful (our market is 93% Hispanic and very bilingual)

· Generate significant enterprise local and hyper local news stories

· This individual should be able to understand a story from its inception, to research the

subject matter, identify the key characters and put the story together.

· Work closely with a photographer-visual storyteller to produce stories that stand out.

(We are not an MMJ newsroom)

· Do active, creative and interesting stand-ups and live shots. Tell us a story

· Post daily on social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook

· Develop unique contacts and continuously cultivate them to develop enterprise news.

· Pitch your own story. Not rehash from the paper

· Perform other tasks as required by newsroom management.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

· BA/BS in Journalism, Communications or related field

· Knowledge of ENPS and Edius editing, a plus.

· Ability to work under pressure with tight deadlines

· 1 year minimum as a reporter at a commercial television news operation

(we are accepting college graduate applicants with TV experience (must have demo reel)

KRGV (ABC) is located in the warm and beautiful Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. (Harlingen – Weslaco – Brownsville – McAllen, Texas DMA #85) Privately owned by the Manship family since 1964, KRGV offers its employees excellent benefits and use of state-of-the-art technologies. Channel 5 News is a hard news brand that drives market leading ratings in a fast growing area with significant breaking news.

Noticias RGV “La Voz del Valle” is the only Spanish News station that brings news coverage you can trust from the most experienced news team in the Valley.

KRGV-TV does not discriminate in its employment and personnel practices because of a person’s race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status. The Federal Communications Commission specifically prohibits discriminatory employment practices.

Informing you and your organization of the above employment opportunity is an affirmative action on our part to actively seek qualified minorities and women for our staff vacancies. Through your assistance we want to ensure that our employment opportunities are made known to members of minority groups and to women.

KRGV-TV is a drug-free and smoke-free workplace. 

If you are qualified for the above vacancy send resume to Elizabeth Gaona, Director of Human Resources, KRGV-TV, P.O. Box 5, Weslaco, Texas 78599 or email to  [email protected] . 

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