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About TEGNA
TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) serves local communities across the U.S. through trustworthy journalism, engaging content, and tools that help people navigate their daily lives. Through customized marketing solutions, we help businesses grow and thrive. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches approximately 100 million people every month across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. For more information, visit TEGNA.com.
The Senior Assignment Coordinator will be a seasoned news professional who will play a crucial role in our newsroom operations, bringing a wealth of experience into various aspects of news gathering, news production, digital content creation, and audience engagement. The Senior Assignment Coordinator will be a leader in our newsroom who urgently and aggressively cover breaking and developing stories. This position must be passionate about local news and have a track record of gathering hard news with the balance of many voices and perspectives.
The Senior Assignment Coordinator will join a combined assignment desk and digital team that manages newsroom assignments and oversees the quality of CBS 8 stories across all platforms. The CBS 8 newsroom is proudly a “one content team,” meaning broadcast and digital share equal stage. We believe in constant learning, but the Sr. Assignment Coordinator is expected to stay current with evolving digital journalism trends and technologies. This position offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of news delivery in a rapidly changing media landscape.
Key Responsibilities:
• Newsgathering and Crew Deployment: Identify relevant stories and efficiently manage news crews
• Social Media Monitoring: Utilize social platforms to identify emerging news leads and track trends
• Liaison: Act as a primary point of contact between the station and external agencies
• Story Tracking: Monitor ongoing news developments and plan future coverage strategies
• Internal Communication: Gather and share story updates, tips, and information within the newsroom, ensuring all staff are informed of every development
• Content Evaluation: Review and respond to various sources (news releases, tips, emails, user-generated content) to identify unique, local, and engaging stories
• Reporting: Conduct necessary reporting efforts, including making calls, obtaining visual assets, researching, and confirming information
• Quality Control: Ensure accuracy and balance in stories through collaboration with reporters and news managers
• Breaking News Management: Work urgently to verify breaking news, updating as needed. Work closely with news management to form breaking news plan, moving crews, making calls, and relaying information to crews in the field and at the station.
• Editorial Leadership: Actively participate in editorial meetings, including pitching stories
• Analytics: Use digital and social analytics to inform editorial decisions
• Cross-Platform Coordination: Work with various teams to develop and distribute content across all editorial platforms
• Network Collaboration: Collaborate with other TEGNA stations, CBS affiliates, and partners to leverage trending content, making sure our newsroom is on top of these trending stories
Required Skills and Qualifications:
• BA/BS in journalism, communications, or related field or 5+ years of experience on an assignment desk or digital producer
• Strong understanding of professional journalism principles
• Exceptional news judgment and strong communication skills
• Ability to adopt an "audience-first" approach in news gathering and distribution
• Adaptability to various news distribution methods and platforms
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to work under constant deadline pressure
• Proficiency in digital and social media analytics tools
Benefits:
TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.
Our 401(k) program offers full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one.
Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.
TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year.
* Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example, some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union.
EEO statement:
TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. We value and consider applications from all qualified candidates without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, disability, medical condition, enrollment in college or vocational school, political affiliation, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. TEGNA will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application, please email askhr@tegna.com
Recruiting Fraud Alert:
To all candidates: your personal information and online safety are important to us. Only TEGNA Recruiters or Hiring Managers will reach out to you regarding consideration of your application or background. Communications with TEGNA employees will either come from a TEGNA email address with a domain of tegna.com or one of our affiliate station domains.
Recruiters or Hiring Managers will never request payments, ask for financial account information or sensitive information such as social security numbers.
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Tegna Inc. is an American publicly traded broadcast, digital media and marketing services company headquartered in Tysons, Virginia. It was created on June 29, 2015, when the Gannett Company split into two publicly traded companies.
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