Reporter

The Reporter/Host reports and produces daily news for listeners across North Carolina’s High Country (and serves as an on-air voice for WFDD including hosting, newscast duties, and on-air fundraising as needed.) The role requires daily pitching, strong source development, and the ability to file nearly air-ready newscast stories and regular feature reports. Based in the High Country, the Reporter/Host works closely with editors, contributes to digital platforms, and maintains regular connection with the Winston-Salem newsroom.

• Develop and maintain sources across the High Country, including community members, public officials, organizations, and subject-matter experts.
• Stay informed about events and issues in the coverage area by monitoring meetings, public documents, press releases, social media, and community conversations, and by knowing the key players involved.
• Pitch multiple story ideas each workday that are timely, relevant, and aligned with WFDD's mission and editorial priorities.
• Report, write, and voice daily news content (including readers, spots, and voicers) for newscasts, submitting scripts that are structurally sound, fact-checked, and nearly ready for air with only light editing needed.
• Produce feature stories on a regular basis (generally weekly) that provide depth, accountability, and context on important issues in the region.
• Conduct interviews and gather audio in the field and remotely, ensuring accuracy, fairness, and adherence to WFDD's editorial and quality standards.
• Meet multiple concurrent deadlines, often working on several stories at once while adjusting to breaking or developing news.
• Host, anchor and provide live updates as needed, including anchoring newscasts, doing live or recorded two-ways, and filling in for other on-air roles as assigned.
• Work collaboratively with editors and colleagues, responding to feedback, participating in editorial discussions, and following newsroom processes for pitching, drafting, editing, and filing stories.
• Maintain regular in-person connection with the newsroom by attending staff meetings in Winston-Salem every two weeks and working from the Winston-Salem newsroom at least once per week.
• Represent WFDD professionally in the community, including at public events, meetings, or forums related to coverage.
• Contribute to digital and social platforms as needed, including writing web versions of stories and providing audio, photos, video and basic metadata.

• Undertakes special projects and assignments as required.
• Participate in station fundraising and special projects as assigned, including on-air pitching or other station initiatives.
• Collaborates with other departments that support the Content Division.

• A four-year degree or equivalent is required and at least three years of full-time professional experience in journalism or equivalent experience. Radio experience is highly preferred.
• Must have experience in news gathering, writing, editing and radio and web production for short-form and long-form reports.
• Demonstrated ability to work within a live broadcast environment.
• A demonstrated ability to present/share their reporting in a live context (radio, podcast, social media)
• Displays knowledge of and adherence to high ethical and audio/work standards.
• Possesses effective communication and interpersonal skills. Must have excellent grammar and spelling skills.
• Must be able to meet daily deadlines under pressure and deal effectively with simultaneous tasks.
• Ability to travel, as required.
• Valid driver’s license with good driving record. Must be insurable.
• Skills required also include online research, word processing, digital editing, basic photography, and operation of light office equipment. Must show experience in posting information to a content management system for website publishing and posting to social media sites.

• Familiarity with public radio news programming.
• Possesses broad knowledge of local and regional issues — and/or depth of knowledge in beat specialty.
• A track record of network story contributions.
• Ability to learn…