Nexstar Media, Inc. America’s largest local broadcasting company, is seeking a driven and experienced news leader to serve as News Director for the New York City operation, which provides services to WPIX (CW) and PIX11.com through an operational agreement with Mission Broadcasting, in the #1 market in the country.
This is a unique opportunity to lead a team of award-winning journalists at a station providing almost 70 hours of local news and programming each week. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker who loves news, politics, sports and community. The News Director must be creative and innovative and embrace our multiplatform approach to delivering news and serving our viewers. The News Director will have the vision to lead a strong team of journalists with a focus on enterprise reporting, issue-based political coverage, and impactful news franchises.
Essential Duties:
- 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 website
- Critiques newscasts daily to correct errors, improve coverage and provide mentoring feedback to news staff
- Assigns projects to staff and verifies deadlines are being met
- Ensures achievement of digital and 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
- Develop and implement a digital strategy to drive growth in online and streaming audiences
- Utilize data and analytics to inform content decisions and measure the effectiveness of digital initiatives
- Collaborate with the team to create innovative, compelling stories that resonate with digital and streaming audiences
- Manage, coach, and inspire newsroom staff to achieve both editorial and digital growth goals
- Performs other duties as assigned
Requirements & Skills:
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in a broadcast television newsroom, with at least five years’ experience in a News Director role.
- 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
- Experience guiding, directing and motivating subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance
- Proven experience in a leadership role in a newsroom, with a strong understanding of digital content strategy
- Expertise in driving digital engagement, particularly through streaming services and online platforms
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, constantly evolving media environment
- 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, fax machines 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
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Salary: $300k minimum
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What We Do
Nexstar Media Group is the largest TV station operator in the country. With the reach of 171 full power television stations in 100 markets addressing nearly 38.9% of US television households, and a diversified, growing digital media operation, Nexstar Media Group offers superior audience engagement across all media devices and local broadcast television’s unrivalled influence on consumers’ purchasing and political decisions. In 20 years, Nexstar has grown from a single station to the nation’s largest television company. This growth is fueled by an organization-wide commitment to delivering exceptional service to our communities and outstanding results for our advertisers. From the very beginning, Nexstar has cultivated an organization-wide commitment to providing superior, unique local content that is relevant to each of the communities it serves, while offering local businesses, advertisers and brands the ability to engage and connect with local communities.
