About the Role
KXAN seeks a dynamic multimedia journalist to lead livestreaming platforms, delivering breaking news and original content across connected TV, YouTube, website, and social media. This role also involves enterprise, investigative, and daily news reporting focused on Central Texas.
Responsibilities
- Produce and anchor breaking news, active weather, and live event coverage using video, graphics, sound, and guest interviews.
- Work with the newsroom to identify and execute livestream opportunities.
- Oversee livestream content, ensuring high-quality production, accuracy, and audience engagement.
- Develop new livestream concepts and interactive programming.
- Create original daily reports for KXAN.com, social media, and streaming platforms.
- Create video-on-demand content from livestreams and original reporting.
- Produce and edit vertical video for YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, and other platforms.
- Optimize YouTube content through strong packaging, including headlines, thumbnails, descriptions, and metadata.
- Analyze audience trends and performance data to improve reach and engagement.
- Produce multimedia stories that support livestream coverage and drive original reporting.
- Share content across Nexstar’s digital network.
Requirements
- Demonstrate strong news judgment and newswriting skills.
- Have strong, charismatic on-air presence.
- Be able to ad-lib in dynamic situations.
- Be highly organized, designing workflows for efficient distribution of content across various platforms.
Skills
- Experience with Akta and vMix streaming tools preferred.
Location
- Central Texas
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years’ experience in a local newsroom preferred
Education Level
- Degree in journalism, video production or other fields related to media content management
About the Company
- Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST) is a leading diversified media company that produces and distributes engaging local and national news, sports and entertainment content across its television and digital platforms, including more than 310,000 hours of programming produced annually by its business units.
- Nexstar owns America’s largest local television broadcasting group comprised of top network affiliates, with 200 owned or partner stations in 116 U.S. markets reaching 220 million people.
- Nexstar’s national television properties include The CW, America’s fifth major broadcast network, NewsNation, our national news network providing “News for All America,” popular entertainment multicast networks Antenna TV and Rewind TV, and a 31.3% ownership stake in TV Food Network.
- The Company’s portfolio of digital assets, including its local TV station websites, The Hill and NewsNationNow.com, are collectively a Top 10 U.S. digital news and information property.
- For more information, please visit nexstar.tv.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.
