News Director

Paducah Television Operations LLC•Lincoln, NE

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Rincon Broadcasting Group is seeking a forward-thinking, innovative News Director to lead the news operations at KLKN in Lincoln, Nebraska, and KBSI in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. This role is ideal for someone passionate about the future of local news, who excels at leading people, coaching journalists, and building strong teams. The News Director will set clear expectations, develop team members, and foster a passion for local journalism and community involvement. Based at KLKN, this position provides editorial and strategic leadership for both stations, collaborating with leaders and team members in both locations. The News Director will shape the vision for coverage across broadcast, digital, streaming, and emerging platforms, ensuring journalism remains relevant and community-focused.

Requirements

Previous newsroom leadership experience is required.
Curiosity, creativity, and willingness to challenge the way things have always been done.
Comfortable leading through change and enthusiastic about experimenting with new technology, platforms, and approaches to local journalism.
Enjoy coaching employees, giving clear feedback, setting expectations, recognizing good work, and helping people get better.
Strong communication and decision-making skills.
Ability to see the big picture without losing sight of the details that make a newsroom successful every day.

Nice To Haves

Experience as a News Director, Assistant News Director, Executive Producer, or similar senior newsroom leadership role strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide overall leadership and editorial direction for the KLKN and KBSI news operations across all platforms.
Coach, mentor, and develop newsroom leaders, producers, anchors, reporters, MMJs, and other content, marketing, and production team members.
Set clear editorial priorities and ensure our newscasts and digital products consistently deliver meaningful, relevant local journalism.
Lead coverage of breaking news, daily news, severe weather, and community events.
Work with newsroom leaders and team members to ensure accurate, high quality storytelling, writing, producing, showcasing and overall execution.
Recruit, hire, and develop talented journalists and help build a strong pipeline for future newsroom leaders.
Look for new and better ways to produce and distribute local news across broadcast, digital, streaming, social, and emerging platforms.
Embrace technology, innovation, and new workflows that allow our teams to work smarter and better serve our audiences.
Work collaboratively with other departments, including marketing, sales, engineering, and station leadership.
Manage newsroom staffing, schedules, resources, and budgets for both newsrooms.
Maintain strong journalistic and ethical standards across both newsrooms.
Other newsroom and station duties as needed.