Assistant News Director
News12, Edison, NJ, US, 08837
News 12 is our award-winning, hyper local news station covering communities throughout Long Island, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Westchester, Hudson Valley, Connecticut and New Jersey. If you’re committed to delivering high quality news and storytelling with a hyper local lens, we have positions available for both on and off-air talent with opportunities for development and growth.
Duration: Full Time
News 12 is our award-winning, hyper local news station covering communities throughout Long Island, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Westchester, Hudson Valley, Connecticut and New Jersey. News 12 New York is our National streaming service for regional news, weather and News 12 originals.
If you’re committed to delivering high quality news and storytelling with a hyper local lens, we have positions available for both on and off-air talent with opportunities for development and growth.
Job Summary
News 12 is looking for an outstanding leader! The role of Assistant News Director will be filled by a passionate, experienced journalist who's great at managing people and growing talent. This person will be driven to provide the very best news coverage possible across all platforms, making sure our content reflects the diverse communities we represent. This role is responsible for leading daily editorial conversations, leading producers to promote urgency and impact, growing a newsroom culture of teamwork and inclusion. This critical team member leads the day-to-day production of editorial content across News 12's platforms with a specific eye toward coaching the journalists and producers on staff. This role elevates storytelling, writing, and newscast crafting. We're looking for someone with a passion to create great content!
Responsibilities
- Oversee the daily editorial process.
- Help build our storm watch team weather brand.
- Oversee the on-air execution of newscasts.
- Have the skills to plan for coverage of natural disasters and other breaking news stories.
- Train, develop and coach the newsroom team with a focus on mentoring content creators across all platforms to elevate writing, crafting and storytelling.
- Collaborate to execute long-term newsroom strategy.
- Participate in coordinating all aspects of coverage, from breaking news to enterprise story production and news specials.
- Ensure that news coverage meets the brand, company policies, industry codes, FCC rules and station values.
- Direct newsroom operations and review scripts.
- Work with the news director and managers to meet defined goals for content and people to establish newsroom goals and work to develop and further brand.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in journalism, related field and/or news leadership experience
- 5 years of industry experience with leadership/management experience
- Track record of quality journalism, high integrity and ethical decision making
- Passion for growing journalists and fostering a creative and positive newsroom environment
- Ability to calmly handle live, breaking news situations and changing events
- Strong planning and organizational skills
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