Morning News Host/Reporter

Job Description

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The position is responsible for hosting the local segments of NPR's Morning Edition. This includes gathering, editing, writing, producing, and presenting morning newscasts each weekday on KPR. This position also helps maintain and update news stories and other information on the KPR website. This person is responsible for maintaining a high-quality, content-rich, news program.

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The position also has reporting and production duties, including newscast stories, interviews and occasional features. This position will be expected to produce local and regional newscasts on a regular basis, edit longer local content from other shows and podcasts so they can be included in the news magazines, and produce at minimum one in-depth feature per month.

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Other duties as assigned by the News Director, which will include participation in on-air station fundraising.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree OR High School Diploma/GED plus three years of experience in broadcasting.
• Experience and demonstrated skills in some or all of the following: on-air hosting, reporting, news gathering, interviewing, writing, radio production, digital audio editing skills and the live, on-air delivery of news, weather and other programming, as demonstrated in application materials.
• Experience communicating ideas in a clear, credible, but informal manner. This will be determined by an audio aircheck (See additional candidate instructions).

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Communications, English, Political Science, or related field and / or several years' experience hosting live radio news shows and news magazines.
• Familiarity with public radio and a working knowledge of the U.S. and Kansas legislative process, court system, and state, county, and municipal governments, as demonstrated in application materials.
• Knowledge of the state of Kansas, including its geography (especially eastern Kansas), its history, people and issues affecting its citizens, as evidenced in application materials.
• Work experience that required meeting deadlines, maintaining organization, and attention to detail, as evidenced by application materials.
• Experience providing live, severe weather coverage with information provided by the National Weather Service and other official sources, as demonstrated in application materials.
• Experience with Microsoft Office, as evidenced in application materials.
• Experience with digital recording and editing software, as evidenced in application materials.

Position Requirements

• Availability on weekday mornings and to work holidays.
• The ability to convey information in a conversational manner.
• A broad base of knowledge, particularly of news topics and especially Kansas news issues and concerns.