Job Openings
Reports To: News Director
Posting Date: July 14, 2010
Station: WJW
Position Description: Gather, report and present news on various platforms, including but not limited to mobile, internet and broadcast. Excellent writing and editorial judgment. Strong live and presentation skills. Flexible to work different shifts and schedules. Must be a self starter, enterprising and aggressive. Report, shoot and edit under any type of weather condition or deadline. Ability to shoot and edit video clips on non-linear systems. Familiar with using FTP, Skype and other emerging technologies. Requirements include web posting of text, video, pictures etc. and incorporating social media into day-to-day coverage. Work alone or with co-workers to complete story and or segment for air, web or mobile. Maintain inventory of all assigned equipment and responsible for its upkeep. Communicate maintenance issues to proper personnel. Other duties as assigned.
Education Requirements: College degree preferred and or experience equivalent.
Interest parties can submit resume and references via email or US Mail at:
- Attn: Human Resources
- fox8.jobs@fox8.com
- WJW
- 5800 S. Marginal Road
- Cleveland, OH 44103
Position: Reporter
Reports To: News Director
Posting Date: July 26, 2010
Station: WJW
Position Description: To gather, and present the news for the newscasts and station website. The Reporter will be required to generate daily story ideas as well as special project ideas. Be an enterprising and aggressive reporter with multimedia skills and knowledge of various technology and equipment used to perform daily duties.
Develop contacts within the area and maintain those contacts on a regular basis. Represent the station at community functions and events as required. Work closely with the Executive Producer, Assignment Editors, Show Producers and Website Producers, writing scripts, editing copy and gathering visuals. Be on-call for news events. Have strong live and presentation skills, exceptional editorial judgment. Performs other duties as assigned. Must have at least three years of professional broadcast experience.
Education Requirements: College degree preferred
Interest parties can submit resume and references via email or US Mail at:
- Attn: Human Resources
- fox8.jobs@fox8.com
- WJW
- 5800 S. Marginal Road
- Cleveland, OH 44103
Position: Sports Anchor
Reports to: News Director
Posting Date: 08/05/2010
Station: WJW
Minimum Knowledge, Skill &/or Abilities: Actually we don't want 'Minimum Knowledge,' there's plenty of that out there, we want 'Maximum Knowledge' and creativity.
Someone who can make Fox 8 sports 'must see', even for people who are not sports fans. Someone who understands and embraces new production technology. Editing skills will be necessary, videography skills will be a plus. Candidate will be expected to contribute to the stations website, Facebook page, Twitter and any other emerging technologies
Position Description: Can you do sports like it's never been done before on a television newscast? WJW/Fox 8 is looking for a dynamic personality to re-define the way traditional sports is done on a newscast. We want you to blow up the 1970's sports format that most stations are still using and help us reinvent it in a 24 hour ESPN, Facebook, Twitter, Blackberry world. The ideal candidate will be extremely knowledgeable in local high school sports, collegiate sports and professional sports.
We expect the candidate to break stories on at least 3 platforms: mobile, internet and broadcast.
Education Requirements: College degree preferred and minimum 3 years experience.
Interest parties can submit resume and references via email or US Mail at:
- Attn: Human Resources
- fox8.jobs@fox8.com
- WJW
- 5800 S. Marginal Road
- Cleveland, OH 44103
Position: Producer
Reports to: News Director
Posting Date: 08/09/2010
Station: WJW
Minimum Knowledge, Skill &/or Abilities: Two years minimum producing experience. Demonstrate excellent writing and communication skills. Have knowledge of computers. Must be extremely flexible to work different shifts and schedules. Have the ability to work under extreme pressure and deadlines. Must keep up on local, state, national and international events. Must work individually as well as part of a team. Work on various platforms including broadcast, mobile and web. Quick writer, must know spelling and grammar, have strong communication skills, be detail oriented and have good news judgement.
Position Description: The primary responsibility of the News Producer is to produce, write and gather information and graphics for highly produced newscasts, programming and station websites. The Producer is responsible for writing and producing news stories, show opens and graphics elements. The Producer will be required to fill in on other newscasts or the station website as needed. The Producer is expected to submit daily story ideas, contribute recommendations on daily story coverage and special assignments. The Producer will also copy edit news stories by reporters and writers, produces special news events, shows and coverage outside the daily newscasts. Performs other duties as assigned.
Education Requirements: College Degree preferred
Interest parties can submit resume and references via email or US Mail at:
- Attn: Human Resources
- fox8.jobs@fox8.com
- WJW
- 5800 S. Marginal Road
- Cleveland, OH 44103
Position: Associate Producer
Reports To: News Director
Posting Date: July 28, 2010
Station: WJW
Position Description: WJW Fox 8 is hiring! Wanted, Associate Producer. Cleveland's news leader is looking for an Associate Producer who is creative and writes copy with a flair. Minimum two years experience producing newscasts. We're not interested in show stackers. Web experience is preferred.
Education Requirements: College degree preferred.
Interest parties can submit resume and references via email or US Mail at:
- Attn: Human Resources
- fox8.jobs@fox8.com
- WJW
- 5800 S. Marginal Road
- Cleveland, OH 44103
Position: Part-Time Promotion Producer
Reports to: Kevin Salyer, VP Promotion & Programming
Posting Date: 5/19/2010
Station: WJW
Minimum Knowledge, Skill &/or Abilities: Candidate ideally should have minimum of one-year experience as promotion producer or demonstrate the skills and talents necessary to learn job quickly. Skills and talents include strong creative writing skills, video production and scriptwriting experience and the ability to work under tight deadlines.
Position Description: Duties include the writing and producing of daily topical promotions, sweeps promotion and station image promotion. Candidate must have strong understanding of on-air promotion and production, news, programming and marketing. Other duties include assistance with other promotional and local programming duties, station special events, on-location production shoots and additional tasks as seen necessary by VP of Promotion & Programming.
Education Requirements: Candidate must have college undergraduate degree or on track to earn degree.
Interest parties can submit resume and references via email or US Mail at:
- Attn: Human Resources
- fox8.jobs@fox8.com
- WJW
- 5800 S. Marginal Road
- Cleveland, OH 44103
Position: Maintenance Technician
Reports To: Chief Engineer
Re-Posted: 07/14/10
Station: WJW
Minimum Knowledge, Skill &/or Abilities: Thorough knowledge and maintenance skills relating to RF, ATSC stream, DTV, automation, IT, file based news-gathering and broadcast operations.
Position Description: Broadcast Maintenance Engineer. Duties include the installation, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of all facility electronic equipment. Occasional operations duties. Shifts may include evenings and weekends.
Education Requirements: College degree in electronics, computer science, or equivalent experience.
Interest parties can submit resume and references via email or US Mail at:
- Attn: Human Resources
- fox8.jobs@fox8.com
- WJW
- 5800 S. Marginal Road
- Cleveland, OH 44103
Position: Internship
Posting Date: 01/12/10
Station: WJW
If you are a college junior, senior or graduate student and are interested in an internship at Fox 8 News, please send your resume and references to the address below. No phone calls or emails please. Please indicate which department (news/sports/ That's Life) you're interested in.
- Attn: Human Resources
- fox8.jobs@fox8.com
- WJW
- 5800 S. Marginal Road
- Cleveland, OH 44103
