Assistant News Director

Nexstar Media Group

📍 Peoria, IL, United States

Full-time other-general

Job Description

The Assistant News Director assists the News Director with all aspects of news, weather and sports programming production, and serves as the News Director in his/her absence.

Responsibilities:

+ Full time position

+ Assists the News Director with management of all aspects of the News Department.

+ Serves as the Executive Producer for daily newscasts and special projects.

+ Responsible for evaluating stories; organizing them into a cohesive sequence within a newscast or digital content for the web

+ Assists with planning, staffing, training, and performance evaluations for the News Department.

+ Fill in Producer when needed in the news department.

+ Develops news coverage strategy for the station and its website.

+ Critiques newscasts daily to correct errors, improve coverage and provide mentoring feedback to news staff.

+ Manage newsroom, contribute to the editorial process and make solid decision...
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