Assistant News Director
About The Position
WROC/RochesterFirst is hiring an Assistant News Director to join their award-winning team. WROC/RochesterFirst is Rochester, NY’s universal local source for news, weather, and information across all platforms. Rochester, NY, offers an exceptional quality of life with outstanding dining, lively entertainment, scenic parks and golf courses, and a friendly, welcoming community. The Assistant News Director assists the News Director with all aspects of multi-platform news, weather and sports programming production, and serves as the News Director in his/her absence. This role also assists with planning, staffing, training, and performance evaluations for the News and Production Departments, and consults on decisions regarding hiring, evaluation, promotion and termination of employees. The Assistant News Director develops content coverage strategy for WROC, RochesterFirst.com and the RochesterFirst streaming app, and assists in, and at times leads, the editorial decision-making process for the multi-platform content operation. This role 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, and ensures achievement of television viewer rating, digital and streaming app growth. The Assistant News Director determines programming and evaluates equipment needs to produce quality programming and responds to coverage questions. Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- 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.
- Must be a critical thinker with excellent content judgement and decision-making skills.
- Minimum two years’ experience in news programming production, with some leadership experience preferred.
- Ability to identify the developmental needs of others and to coach, mentor or otherwise help others to improve their knowledge or skills.
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Some leadership experience preferred (Depending on market size.)
Responsibilities
- Assists the News Director with management of all aspects of the News and Production Departments.
- Assists with planning, staffing, training, and performance evaluations for the News and Production Departments.
- Consults on decisions regarding hiring, evaluation, promotion and termination of employees.
- Develops content coverage strategy for WROC, RochesterFirst.com and the RochesterFirst streaming app.
- Assists in, and at times leads the editorial decision-making process for the multi-platform content operation.
- 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 television viewer rating, digital and streaming app growth.
- Determines programming and evaluation of equipment needs to produce quality programming.
- Responds to coverage questions.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
