90FM News and Public Affairs Director

• Normal hours per week is 10 hours.

• Recruit, train, schedule, and supervise news staff to report timely and relevant new stories and produce on-air news broadcasts. 

• Recruit, train, schedule, and supervise public affairs hosts to produce interesting programming that serves public interest as defined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). 

• Oversee production of special event news programming such as election coverage, SGA elections, major campus news, etc. 

• Take an enthusiastic approach to the recruitment and training of new news staff, with the goal of a robust schedule. 

• Produce and assist in producing Featured News Stories. 

• Oversee the station’s formal ascertainment process and writes the station’s quarterly “issues” list with assistance of the faculty advisor and program director. Ensure proper function of all newsroom equipment and maintenance and cleanliness of the newsroom and podcasting studios. 

• Work with Program Director to ensure WWSP-90FM’s broadcast philosophy is followed. 

• Should be familiar with Adobe Audition and other post-production and broadcast automation software. 

• Enforce and adhere to all 90FM policies and procedures. 

• Be available to assist and volunteer for operations related to annual fundraisers (Radiothon andTrivia) in support of the station. 

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