# Weekend Anchor/MSJ

**Company**: TEGNA Inc.
**Location**: Columbus
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $70,000-$90,000 USD
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Media

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## Description

We are seeking a creative, driven, and enterprising journalist to join our team as a Weekend Evening Anchor and Multi-Skilled Journalist at WBNS-10TV, the TEGNA CBS affiliate in Columbus, Ohio.

The ideal candidate will anchor weekend evening newscasts while also reporting as an MSJ during the week or as newsroom needs dictate. This journalist must be an engaging communicator who can lead coverage with confidence, credibility, and urgency , especially during breaking news and severe weather coverage.

Responsibilities:

- Anchor weekend evening newscasts with strong editorial judgment and an engaging on-air presence

- Help lead breaking news and severe weather coverage during weekend shifts

- Collaborate with producers and newsroom leadership to shape weekend editorial coverage

- Deliver accurate, conversational, and audience-focused storytelling

- Contribute to streaming and digital coverage during major news events

- Help mentor and elevate storytelling across weekend coverage

MSJ Responsibilities:

- Develop, write, shoot, and edit original stories for broadcast, streaming, digital, and social platforms

- Enterprise story ideas through community contacts, public records, and independent reporting

- Deliver live reports during breaking news and major events

- Write and publish daily content for 10TV.com, the 10TV app, and social media platforms

- Build and maintain strong relationships and sources throughout central Ohio

- Use modern storytelling tools and techniques to create compelling, impactful journalism

Requirements:

- Minimum 2-5 years of television news anchoring and/or reporting experience preferred

- Strong live anchoring and reporting skills

- Proven ability to enterprise and develop original stories

- Excellent writing, storytelling, and communication skills

- Ability to work independently as a Multi-Skilled Journalist

- Strong editorial judgment and commitment to journalistic ethics

- Ability to perform effectively in fast-paced, high-pressure breaking news situations

- Experience creating content for broadcast, digital, streaming, and social platforms

- Journalism, Communications, or related degree preferred

- Proficiency with newsroom systems, editing software, and digital storytelling tools

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage

- 401(k) program with company match

- Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays

- Access to Teladoc and Spring Health

## Skills

### Required
- live anchoring
- reporting
- storytelling
- communication
- editorial judgment
- journalistic ethics
- content creation
- digital storytelling

### Nice to have
- enterprise reporting
- breaking news
- severe weather coverage
- streaming
- social media

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