News Reporter

At Bonneville International, our purpose is to build up, connect, inform, and celebrate communities and families in the markets we serve. As an integrated media company, we provide content, advertising, and digital marketing solutions across 23 radio stations in Denver, Phoenix, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Seattle, along with the NBC Affiliate TV station, KSL-TV 5, in Salt Lake. We are responsible for lifting and inspiring with respect and giving voice to all the communities and clients we serve.

We believe that empowering our employees to share their ideas and experiences will fuel creativity, innovation, and inspiration. A diverse and inclusive workforce is crucial to our ability to create and deliver exceptional content, products, and services that represent our communities. We’re proud of our history and we want talented people to join us as we continue to grow!

To learn more about Bonneville and how our local media matters, visit: https://bonneville.com/

Position Overview

Be an effective team member and make a full contribution to the success of Arizona’s News Station. We’re looking for a driven, passionate-for-news individual hungry to tell people’s stories, seek the truth and inform the public about what’s going on in our community. Perform live field reports, with proficient ad lib skills, and the ability to use natural and ambient sound in field reports. Enterprise news sources and produce audio, video and written online content for radio, digital and social media platforms. Contribute daily to make KTAR the leading provider of timely, relevant news and information. This is an on-site full-time position of 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday.

Note: Work configurations are subject to change based on business needs and at company discretion.

This position is an onsite role that requires the employee to regularly work at our Phoenix site.

What You Will Do

Primary job duties will include, but are not limited to:

Breaking News driven, ready to cover developing stories in a moment’s notice.
Execute live field and in-studio reports as often as the story warrants and in an urgent manner.
Be a self-starter and quick thinker while reporting in-house and on-location. Placing an extreme emphasis on conversational writing and creative presentation during live and taped reports.
Consistently contributes original and long form story ideas.
Frequently contribute to KTAR.com by writing web stories to complement broadcast pieces.
Produce podcast content on short and longform stories for online and social media platforms.
Work alongside our digital team to help create short and longform video content to compliment breaking news or original story.
Disseminate your own stories and station content to social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok.
Stay updated on all news sources, including all local media, government entities and local organizations of news value.
Hold true to the utmost ethics in journalism and practice integrity in all areas, including professional and personal standards.