Duties and Responsibilities: Broadcast News Analysts are also known as Reporters, Correspondents, and News Anchors. News analysts gather and prepare story information deemed news-worthy, analyze and interpret, then report the news to the public through various channels, television, radio, and print i.e. news papers and magazines. Reporters and correspondents receive their news through various sources; news wires, the field themselves, interviews, other reporters and correspondents etc.

News Reporters, Anchors and Correspondents typically specialize in particular areas of news for instance politics, sports, weather, local, national and international. Political correspondents often times are involved in procuring news from the source by interviewing candidates closely involved in the news, or professionals that may help to analyze and interpret the news. Sources can be from public officials, corporate executives, special interest groups etc. Sports reporters are often at the games themselves whether it be Football, Basketball, Baseball or the Olympics; they will report the scores, interview key players and analyze the teams performance and the games highlights. Weather Newscasters are typically trained meteorologists and have the knowledge to analyze and interpret weather data and develop forecasts of weather conditions. They will report this news as local weather conditions and forecasts, regionally, and even nationally.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Typical required skills and abilities for News Analysts, Anchors, Reporters and Correspondents include strong computer skills in graphics, publishing, and word processing software, stellar communication skills, the ability to multi-task and more. News reporters also need to reflect accuracy at all times and need to develop conviction. They also work in stressful environments and often time under pressure, and must be able to maintain professionalism in appearance and attitude at all time, in front of the microphone and camera, or behind the scenes.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

A bachelor’s degree in communications or journalism
Internship or experience in related news broadcasting field

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Duties and Responsibilities: Duties and Responsibilities: Administrative Services Managers coordinate and direct support departments and groups of businesses.

Administrative services managers manage many of the support services of an office such as record keeping, mail distribution, receptionists, other managers or leaders, phones or operators, custodial operations, events, luncheons, facilities and more. They keep an office running smoothly and will often times change or create new policies to improve office efficiencies.

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Photographers capture, produce and preserve photos, pictures and imagery, both commercial and private that fill a vision, tell a story, or record an event in history. Photographers are apt to create photographs that capture interest much like any other form of art. High quality photography is likewise highly sought after and requires a blend of technical knowledge and creative thought that can only be tought to a certain degree.

Photographers need a technical knowledge of lighting, props, subjects, equipment, colors, digital photos and film. Photographers often use different lenses and filters to create blurs, different aspect ratios, and other effects. Photographers are also well skilled with computers as technology takes a larger and larger role in capturing, editing, and storing images.

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Web Developers develop and maintain website front-end creatives as well as back-end programming, database and applications. Web Developers have a strong sense of design and adhere to web standards. They develop web interfaces often called Graphic User Interfaces (GUI), for both software applications and basic web presentations. They have knowledge of several different graphic programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Macromedia Flash for multimedia presentations, and other such tools. They also have knowledge of middleware programming, scripting languages such as Javascript, markup languages such as HTML and XHTML, CSS, and communications skills to develop basic copy. In terms of Database knowledge, web developers must understand and create SQL server scripts, and stored procedures to send and retrieve data. Web Developers program with different languages, some open source and some proprietary, i.e. PHP and ASP or dotNET, respectively.

Web Developers often times work as teams with each developer a specialist in front-end development or back-end programming and or database development. Web developers that separate through specialities will often excell at their respective knowledge and coordinate better. Web developers also work independantly as contractors or as company web developer. These roles require full knowledge of web design principles and programming structures as they work alone.

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