News Director

Iowa Broadcasters Association; Iowa (LA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Iowa Broadcasters Association is seeking a News Director to lead and supervise all aspects of news, weather and sports programming production. The role involves strategic oversight of the News Department, staffing decisions, and mentoring staff to enhance coverage.

The director will develop coverage strategies for the station and its website, critique daily newscasts to improve accuracy and impact, assign projects, and ensure deadlines and ratings goals are met, working with senior leaders to

Qualifications

• Responsibilities require strong leadership and editorial judgment.
• Experience managing news staff and workflow preferred.
• Ability to plan coverage and mentor staff.

Responsibilities

• Leads and supervises all aspects of news, weather and sports programming production.
• Manages staffing, training, and performance evaluations for the News Department.
• Makes hiring, evaluation, promotion, and termination decisions.
• Develops news coverage strategy for the station and its website.
• Crtiques newscasts daily to correct errors and improve coverage.
• Assigns projects and ensures deadlines are met.
• Ensures achievement of viewer rating goals.
• Determines programming and equipment needs for quality output.
• Responds to coverage questions and collaborates with senior leadership.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job description

Jobdescription The News Director leads and supervises all aspects of news, weather and sports programming production.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Manages all aspects of the News Department (other than Production.)
• Plans and manages staffing, training, and performance evaluations for the News Department.
• Makes decisions regarding hiring, evaluation, promotion and termination of employees.
• Develops news coverage strategy for the station and its website.
• Critiques newscasts on a daily basis 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 viewer rating goals.
• Determines programming and evaluation of equipment needs to produce quality programming.
• Responds to coverage questions.
• Works with other senior station leaders to establish and reach station goals.
• Performs other duties as assigned.