1. Jose Charles III
2345 N. Houston St.
Dallas, Texas 75219
(956) 313-6214
Objective: To obtain a leadership role that will utilize my previous editorial and management
skills to accomplish my journalistic goals.
Education: Weslaco High School
1991-1995
The University of Oklahoma
Gaylord School of Journalism
1995-2000
Employment: Univision Communications: KUVN 23 / Dallas/ April 2012-Present
Assignment Editor/Back-up Producer
( 2015 Emmy nominated producer)
• Contributes in daily editorial meetings to pitch story ideas, side
stories, and discuss current events. Must update anchors, reporters and producers
with updated information on stories.
• Establish enterprise stories and update all “beat” stories.
• Keep constant communication with producers, photographers and
reporters. Constantly updating them with the latest on their stories and
coordinating live shots.
• Assign all stories to reporters and appropriate gear to photographers.
• Take feeds from the field via LiveU, Aspera, and ENG units.
• Produce sweeps pieces several months ahead of the actual sweeps
period.
• Produced weekend newscasts from June 2015-November 2015.
• Work closely with the producer and aid in cg's, graphics, and help
with constructing the rundown.

2. • Developedcontacts to establish exclusive and breaking stories.
• Full understanding of the INews system
• Post news briefs on various social media outlets during every shift.
• Monitor competing stations everyday.
• Make daily beat checks to a variety of local public information offices.
• Work with affiliate stations on a daily basis.
• Train interns on assignment desk responsibilities.
Barrington Broadcasting: CBS Account Executive Jan 2011-Mar 2012
• Researchedand identified new business. Set up appointments and
made cold calls in order to obtain signed contracts for CBS.
• Met my goals for acquiring new business accounts set by the sales
manager.
• Developedproposals specifically for client’s needs and remained
accessible to clients through regular communication before and after the sale.
• Maintained and managed regular house accounts and grew their
budgets in size along with growing their profit margins.
• Created advertising spots from beginning to end with production
department. Responsible for copy writing points to creative concept of
advertisement.
• Offered fresh ideas in production quality both audio wise and video
content drawn from years of experience in the media field.
• Developedand maintained social network sites for top 5 clients on
Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.
• Offered online advertising as an attractive cost effective solution to
those whose advertising budget had been affected by the recent economy.
• Had great success with Daily Deals, which was sales project that was
taken from the concept of Groupon.

3. News Director: XRIO 6 News (Fox) and KNVO 48 News (Univision)
December 2006- December 2010
• Managed Entravisions largest department with a total of 40
newsroom employees.
• Coordinated the production of three different newscasts and one
morning show.
• Directed all aspects of the news department from on-air talent,
production, technical, graphics, camera crew, and interns.
• Responsible for all assignment editor duties to assign all news stories
for all news casts and manage all morning reporters and photographers.
• Responsible for quality management of all written, audio, and video
content to meet the highest of journalistic standards.
• On-call 24-hours a day for overnight breaking news.
• Launched Fox Rio News and worked with the executive producer to
generate the show template and direction of the 9 pm Fox newscast.
• Worked with the Engineering Department to create the new FOX
station set and all the components of a fully functioning station.
• Conducted monthly power point meetings to analyze, evaluate, and
develop a plan to reach as much of our audience as possible.
• Responsible for the development of Fox and Univision employee
schedules, overtime budget, vacation, and sick leave for all news department.
• Interviewed and hired news staff which included on air and off air
talent.
• Participated in monthly meetings with corporate offices to discuss
budgets, sweeps ideas, as well as major events such as hurricanes, border violence,
and current local events.
• Responsible for implementing and assigning compelling and exciting
sweeps stories for both FOX and Univision teams during key ratings periods.
• Served as News Promotions Director to make proof of performance
segments (POP) for both Fox and Univision news.

4. Assignments Editor: July 2001- Nov 2006
• Conducted editorial morning meetings with news reporters and
photographers to assign the news stories for the day.
• Managed a team of 15 employees which consisted of the morning
show crew as well as morning reporters and photographers.
• Coordinated with the executive producer of our morning show to set
up bands, guests, and directed the technical crew for the Marcos Valdes Show.
• Made daily calls to all public information offices of local police
departments, governmental agencies, school districts, congressional offices, city
halls, etc. to set up new story ideas that affected the viewership of the market.
• Evaluated, prioritized and selectedmedia coverage request press
releases to cover events from a variety of public information offices.
• Coordinated maintenance of all news vehicles including live trucks,
regular trucks and newsroom gear such as cameras, microphones, tripods and
computers.
• Conducted mid-day meetings with the news director, anchors and
producers as well as night crew to determine what stories would be on air for 5 and
10pm news cast. Also coordinated live shots.
• Trained all news interns and incoming assignments editors.
• Made daily calls to corporate news headquarters to update what
stories were making headlines in our Rio Grande Valley Market and made these
available to our Univision Network in Miami.
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