ASSISTANT NEWS DIRECTOR - WEEK -TV
About The Position
You will lead a modern newsroom with a dual focus: ratings-winning broadcast coverage and a high-impact digital experience across web, mobile, streaming, social, and platforms. You will drive audience growth by optimizing story formats for every screen with a strong digital focus, strengthening real-time breaking-news workflows, and using data to improve retention, recirculation, and community engagement. Supervise reporters, anchors, videographers, and producers; review scripts and rundowns; and direct daily digital/news coverage across all shows and social media platforms. Lead the broadcast-to-digital publishing pipeline by overseeing the digital producer to post breaking news fast with video, maintain continuous coverage, and optimize web/mobile and social distribution to strengthen the overall audience experience. Please note - primary job duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the information listed above
Requirements
- Digital mastery (high emphasis): Audience growth strategy (SEO, social/video platforms, push alerts, newsletters), real-time analytics use (Chartbeat/GA/Comscore), and strong understanding of OTT/streaming workflows + continuous news desk publishing.
- Editorial leadership: Excellent news judgment, enterprise/investigations support, fairness/ethics, strong writing/headline skills, and coaching to elevate story structure for digital consumption.
- Content production knowledge: Rundown systems (ENPS/iNews), digital CMS, live production basics, field workflows, and modern video formats (vertical, explainers, lives).
- 3+ years newsroom leadership (EP/Managing Editor/Asst ND), proven breaking-news + special coverage execution across TV, web, app, OTT, and social.
Responsibilities
- Lead a modern newsroom with a dual focus: ratings-winning broadcast coverage and a high-impact digital experience across web, mobile, streaming, social, and platforms.
- Drive audience growth by optimizing story formats for every screen with a strong digital focus, strengthening real-time breaking-news workflows, and using data to improve retention, recirculation, and community engagement.
- Supervise reporters, anchors, videographers, and producers
- Review scripts and rundowns
- Direct daily digital/news coverage across all shows and social media platforms.
- Lead the broadcast-to-digital publishing pipeline by overseeing the digital producer to post breaking news fast with video, maintain continuous coverage, and optimize web/mobile and social distribution to strengthen the overall audience experience.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Medical(Rx), Dental, and Vision Coverage
- Health Savings Account with Company contributions
- Flexible Spending Account
- Employer-paid life and disability benefits
- Paid parental leave benefits
- Adoption and Surrogacy Benefits
- 401(k) Plan, including matching and profit-sharing contributions
- Employee Assistance Program
- Voluntary benefits, including Hospital Indemnity, Critical Illness, Accident Insurance, and supplemental life insurance coverage
- Paid Time Off, including Relocation PTO
- Focus on Caring
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
