What are the responsibilities and job description for the News Director position at Nexstar Broadcasting?
News 19 North Alabama’s News Leader is looking for our next News Director. We’re searching for a strong journalist and confident leader. News 19 is a duopoly, WHNT & WHDF. WHNT is a legacy station and a dominant CBS affiliate. WHDF is the CW affiliate serving North Alabama and parts of southern Tennessee. Combined, we air almost 10 hours of news each day. The right candidate will be hands-on guiding the day-to-day coverage while mentoring your team. We’re looking for a strategic thinker to drive audience growth on television and digital.
Huntsville ranks 2nd as the best metro area in U.S. News & World report in places to live this year and was 1st in the rankings last year. Huntsville offers an exceptional quality of living with affordable housing, and a reputation as a leading center for technological and aerospace innovation blended with a backdrop of the Appalachian Mountains, rivers, and lakes in the Tennessee Valley. It's nicknamed Rocket City and is home to the US Space and Rocket Center and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.
Huntsville ranks 2nd as the best metro area in U.S. News & World report in places to live this year and was 1st in the rankings last year. Huntsville offers an exceptional quality of living with affordable housing, and a reputation as a leading center for technological and aerospace innovation blended with a backdrop of the Appalachian Mountains, rivers, and lakes in the Tennessee Valley. It's nicknamed Rocket City and is home to the US Space and Rocket Center and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.
If you are a team player who loves being the coach on the field, apply above.
The News Director leads and supervises all aspects of news, weather, and sports programming as well as Digital Content.
- Manages all aspects of the News Department (other than Production)
- 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 and its digital platforms.
- 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 communicated and met.
- Ensures achievement of viewership 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.
- 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 four years in news management.
- 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.
- Proficiency with computers, telephones, copiers, scanners, and other office equipment.
- Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize assignments and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Ability to effectively listen to understand employee needs and communicate with a team to shape a solution.
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