News Reporter – Stratford, ON
Welcome to Vista Radio, we are currently hiring a Local News Reporter/Presenter in our Stratford CJCS/2dayFM/My Stratford Now Newsroom. Stratford is a beautiful city on the Avon River full of gorgeous architecture and home to the Shakespeare Festival. If you live in the area or want to move to the area and have a passion for capturing stories that matter and telling those stories, then you should apply.
In storytelling, the details matter, you will bring your detail oriented, accurate approach to find, create and tell the stories from the community for a news content environment.
Your team supports a collaborative and supportive environment so you can develop your skills to be a self-starter and a leader.
We empower our team members to shape company culture. Our culture includes being committed to fostering an inclusive and dynamic working environment.
Description:
Be an active part of the local community
Craft and voice a local and regional newscast
Researching and writing news stories for online and on-air broadcast
Reading local news for on air, as required
Contributing to and updating websites
News audio and video production
Key Requirements:
We promote training and development, experience working in a newsroom or equivalent journalism background is an asset
You offer strong verbal and written communication skills
You should have solid on-air delivery skills with a desire to learn and improve
Conversational storytelling skills are a bonus
Dedicated to being organized
You have the ability to watch, learn and absorb the knowledge and put it to work as a self-starter
There are deadlines and you know how to remain calm under pressure to meet those deadlines
You must have a valid driver's license
Working familiarity with Adobe Audition, Newsroom and on-air software
Application Instructions:
Apply online at:
Please include a link to a Soundcloud/YouTube audio demo to the Additional Documents section of the application form. In addition, if you have any web-writing experience and/or writing samples that you can demonstrate as well, please include that material to additional documents.
Comments