Digital Traffic Anchor/Lifestyle Producer/Host

ABC7 is searching for a Digital & Broadcast Professional who can troubleshoot traffic on multiple platforms, while also connecting with viewers through fun, engaging live content on our established lifestyle broadcast called The Suncoast View.

Connect with our viewers when traffic is busiest, by presenting time-saving traffic reports in newscasts and on the ABC7 digital live desk. You’ll help grow a digital traffic brand, using digital and social tools in real time. Roads are getting busier on Florida’s Suncoast, and locals need an advocate who will help save time and frustration getting around.

When you’re not covering the roads, you’ll join an ensemble cast by producing and hosting fun, in-the-field segments during our mid-morning lifestyle show called "The Suncoast View.”

Duties/Responsibilities include, but not limited to

- Produce & present clear, confident, and thoughtful traffic reports on live digital and broadcast platforms
- Monitor real-time traffic and deliver traffic workarounds in real-time
- Craft Multiple “Happening Now Traffic reports” for the web and push alerts to viewers
- Serve as an editorial knowledge hub for all traffic and road construction projects
- Produce in-the-field traffic stories about major projects and updates
- Pre-tape daily traffic and construction-focused vignettes and segments for later newscasts
- Collaborate with News Managers, producers, and hosts to help create and execute daily, hour-long Suncoast View shows
- Set up and showcase pre-recorded and live "in the field" guest segments
- Interact with newsmakers, guests, and viewers via phone and email
- Create graphics and lower thirds for stories
- Write copy for web and edit video for playback

Qualifications/Requirements

- Two years of reporting and producing experience desired
- Working knowledge of WSI Traffic/Weather Systems
- Demonstrated ability to write web articles and app pushes
- Eagerness to create a brand, by connecting with users on ABC7 Live Desk
- A positive attitude, willingness to learn, and ability to collaborate
- An internship in a commercial newsroom
- A degree or intensive coursework in communications and/or journalism