Career-track clinical or teaching professor (digital reporting and editing)

Arizona State University•Phoenix, AZ

32d•Onsite

About The Position

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University is seeking an experienced and innovative professional to teach and lead advanced undergraduate and graduate students in reporting, writing, editing, and publishing digital content for Cronkite News, the school’s student-staffed, faculty-led news outlet. This role combines editorial leadership, mentorship, and teaching, ensuring students develop professional-level skills in digital journalism while upholding high standards of accuracy, fairness, and thoroughness. Success is measured by student achievement and their ability to apply skills within a working newsroom. The ideal candidate is a top-tier journalist with strong digital news experience, a creative thinker comfortable in a fast-paced news environment, and a student-focused instructor passionate about the future of news. They must demonstrate a commitment to accuracy, fairness, and collaboration, possess the skills to inspire, support, and instruct student journalists, and provide clear direction and feedback. As faculty, the professor will have teaching and service responsibilities, with no research or creative activity requirements. Teaching assignments are made semester-by-semester and may include editing within the Cronkite News capstone course and other media courses. This is a full-time, benefits-eligible, 9-month (academic year) appointment on ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus, not a tenure-track position. The professor will hold the rank of assistant, associate, or full clinical professor, or assistant, associate, or full teaching professor.

Requirements

Candidates pursuing a clinical professor rank must have a master’s degree at the time of appointment, and at least 7 years professional experience in journalism, or equivalent specialized experience.
Candidates pursuing a teaching professor rank must have a terminal degree at the time of appointment, and at least 7 years professional/teaching experience in journalism or equivalent specialized experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading, managing and editing a team of journalists, particularly early-career journalists
Mastery of AP Style
Measurable success in engaging audiences around news content, including through digital and social media storytelling
Experience developing a news beat
Experience developing and producing deeply reported enterprise journalism
Ability to create audio, photo, graphics, interactives, video and/or broadcast storytelling to complement written reporting
Experience teaching journalism or related topics at the university level
Demonstrated proficiency in new and emerging multimedia storytelling tools and platforms
Ability to report and edit Spanish-language journalism
Familiarity with communities and newsmakers in Arizona

Responsibilities

Leading, editing, teaching and mentoring a team of upper-level undergraduate and graduate journalism students in a full-time, daily news environment (typical hours are approximately 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday)
Teaching lower-, upper- and graduate-division courses in media skills
Coaching students through the ideation and reporting of compelling, meaningful stories, cultivating beats and sources, and executing day-turn and enterprise stories
Managing daily story assignments together with fellow Cronkite News faculty, and collaboratively planning, managing and producing innovative and professional news content
Editing written student work and related multimedia elements for publication on the Cronkite News website, social media channels, as well as for distribution to more than 150 clients across the country
Fostering a culture of innovation by harnessing fresh ideas and experimenting with new tools, technologies and techniques that enhance digital and social media storytelling in ethical and responsible ways.
Leading experimentation with AI tools in reporting and/or storytelling
Collaborating with other newsroom faculty, students and staff
Performing service both internally (e.g., committee assignments, student recruitment) and externally (e.g. professional workshops, contest judging)
Performing other duties as assigned