The News Director leads and supervises all aspects of news, weather, digital content, CTV and sports programming production.
- Manages all aspects of the News Department
- Plans and manages staffing, training, and performance evaluations for the News Department
- Makes decisions regarding hiring, evaluation, promotion and termination of employees
- Develops news coverage strategy for the station, website, and CTV
- Critiques newscasts daily to correct errors, improve coverage and provide mentoring feedback to news staff
- Assigns projects to staff and verifies that deadlines are being met
- Ensures achievement of viewer rating goals
- Determines programming and evaluation of equipment needs to produce quality programming
- Responds to coverage questions
- Works with other senior station leaders to establish and reach station goals
- Ensures on air video and audio is compliant with Nexstar and FCC standards
- Creates monthly special projects, tied to the community
- Forward thinking in the CTV programming and expansion space
- Management of the Newsroom budget and Expenses
- Creative input with promotional hub
- Works with other News directors within Nexstar for statewide, regional, and national coverage and support
- Performs other duties as assigned
Requirements & Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience
- Fluency in English
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
- Minimum five years’ experience in news programming production, with at least three years’ experience in a leadership role. (More or less depending on market size.)
- Experience guiding, directing and motivating subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance
- Experience establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them
- Ability to identify the developmental needs of others and to coach, mentor or otherwise help others to improve their knowledge or skills
- Experience preparing and maintaining departmental budgets and working within department’s expense guidelines
- Proficiency with computers, telephones, Microsoft programs, copiers, scanners and other office equipment
- Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize assignments and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Ability to effectively listen to fully understand employee needs and communicate with a team to shape a solution
- Ability to create and expand CTV programming
- History of growing audience shares in key demographics
- Ability to analyze research and daily metrics and build a game plan for growth
- Ability to analyze daily NSI and Com Score Ratings and trends not only for WKRN but the entire landscape
