The Digital Reporter should be a skilled writer who can craft headlines and content that provide value to the audience and driver user engagement. The reporter will use data to make decisions about audience interest trends. The reporter will be able to reach out to contacts, source the web and find information on social media to build stories that will be high performing across multiple websites. While the reporter will largely work from a single space, the ability to take photos and create video is a plus. A strong knowledge of social media platforms is expected.
Position Responsibilities:
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Education Requirements:
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Typical day:
This reporter will spend time at the start of the shift reviewing story ideas and looking over their own sources for ideas. After coordinating with digital leadership for a list of expected daily stories, the reporter will begin writing and communicating updates. Social media updates, videos and monitoring of breaking news should be incorporated seamlessly into the shift.
Measurements of success:
https://www.abc27.com
WHTM-TV, a Nexstar Broadcasting Inc. company, is an ABC affiliated, full-power commercial television station licensed to the Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York market. The station provides five and a half hours of local news, weather, sports and information programming each week day and produces a half hour lifestyle program highlighting South Central Pennsylvania. WHTM also serves the community by providing free air time and involvement with many local charities and organizations, and is known as “abc27…Your Local News Source!”