Director, WEKU News

Job description

Title: Director, WEKU News Position Type: Fulltime Staff: Search Type: External - minimum 7 days Department: 83R000 - Communications and Brand Management Division: 3R1000 - Communications and Brand Management Position Location: Richmond Campus: Driver Classification: Driver: FLSA: Exempt: Schedule Type: Full Time (37.5 hrs per week or more) Hours Per Week: Additional Schedule Details: Posted Salary Grade: Exempt - G22 Retirement: KTRS: Contact Person: Mike Savage: Job Summary/Basic Functions: The WEKU News Director takes a lead role in planning and assigning coverage for news stories; and covers and prepares news stories for on air broadcast and online. Supervises staff reporters, features reporters and student interns. The ND is part of the WEKU Leadership Team and plays a key role in defining and maintaining ethical, editorial, artistic, and technical standards for all news programming. The ND also assists the Director and General Manager with news programming decisions and news operations. This position is also responsible for managing news content distribution on the station website and other platforms. Minimum Qualifications: Education: Bachelor's degree is in Journalism, Comm...