News Director

Job description

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 Nexstar and FCC standards - Creates monthly special projects, tied to the community - Forward thinking in the CTV programming and expansion space - Management of the Newsroom budget and Expenses - Creative input with promotional hub - Works with other News directors within Nexstar for statewide, regional,...