News Director

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


+ Manages all aspects of the News Department

+ 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, website, and CTV

+ 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 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

+ Ensures on air video and audio is compliant with ...