WRBL -TV/wrbl.com (Columbus, Georgia) seeks a Digital MMJ to report from our LaGrange, Georgia Bureau and to create & present news content for our local digital and social media platforms.
The Digital Multimedia Journalist should be passionate about local news, innovative, focused on the mobile user, confident on camera, and full of creativity and initiative. The ideal candidate will be a self-starting journalist that is well-versed in video journalism, web content creation, and publishing using an ever-evolving set of multimedia tools and platforms. This position will write articles and gather and present live and recorded video segments, online, on mobile, and on social media. These segments will be original stories that break news, dig deeper into details of breaking stories, and uncover and discover enterprise topics. The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of how to effectively use social media to deliver original content to viewers and market to cross-platform audiences.
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Physical Demands & Work Environment:
The Multimedia Journalist (Digital) must be able to sit, conduct telephone conversations, use electronic mail, write letters and memos, conduct face-to-face discussions with individuals or groups, make decisions without supervision, make decisions that impact the results of co-workers, work near others, work outdoors occasionally in all weather conditions, and work indoors in environmentally controlled conditions. In addition, the successful applicant must be able to lift, set up and operate equipment weighing up to 25 pounds, and be able to handle, control or feel objects, tools or controls. Repetitive movements are required. Work may be conducted in extremely bright or inadequate lighting conditions.
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