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
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism or related field
- Minimum five years' experience in news programming production
- Three years' experience in a leadership role
- Experience in budget preparation and maintenance
- Ability to analyze daily NSI and Com Score Ratings
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.
