News Director

A friendly, affordable midwestern city with so much to offer. Work, play, and enjoy life in the “Gem City.” Dayton is known as the birthplace of aviation, and features a mecca of restaurants, festivals, museums, sports teams, and entertainment. Forbes named Dayton one of the top 20 best cities to live in as a career professional. Trulia ranked Dayton the #2 least expensive city to live in out of the top 100 metropolitan areas in the country. Come join a growing team and affordable midwestern city. WDTN/WBDT, Dayton, Ohio has an immediate opening for a News Director to oversee the NBC/CW affiliates in market #66 broadcasting 50 hours of local news per week. The next News Director will oversee the news operations for WDTN/WBDT-TV, while also working to grow the station's digital content wdtn.com and mobile apps. The successful candidate will be a hands-on news manager who has a proven track record for coaching and developing talent, solid journalism skills, planning, the desire and ability to own the big news story and a passion for breaking news and severe weather. Our coverage of Southwest Ohio is a priority, so a vision for unique coverage, storytelling and programming is a must. Additional Job Description The News Director leads and supervises all aspects of news, weather, 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 and its website. 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 and digital metric 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.Requirements & Skills Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience. Fluency in English. Excellent communication skills, both oral and written. Minimum five years’ experience in news programming production, with at least two years’ experience in a leadership role. (More or less depending on market size.) Experience guiding, directing and motivating subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance. Experience establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them. Ability to identify the developmental needs of others and to coach, mentor or otherwise help others to improve their knowledge or skills. Experience preparing and maintaining departmental budgets. Proficiency with computers, telephones, copiers, scanners, fax machines and other office equipment. Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize assignments and handle multiple tasks simultaneously. Ability to effectively listen to fully understand employee needs and communicate with a team to shape a solution.Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST) is a leading diversified media company that produces and distributes engaging local and national news, sports and entertainment content across its television and digital platforms, including more than 310,000 hours of programming produced annually by its business units. Nexstar owns America’s largest local television broadcasting group comprised of top network affiliates, with 200 owned or partner stations in 116 U.S. markets reaching 220 million people. Nexstar’s national television properties include The CW, America’s fifth major broadcast network, NewsNation, our national news network providing “News for All America,” popular entertainment multicast networks Antenna TV and Rewind TV, and a 31.3% ownership stake in TV Food Network. The Company’s portfolio of digital assets, including its local TV station websites, The Hill and NewsNationNow.com, are collectively a Top 10 U.S. digital news and information property. For more information, please visit nexstar.tv. EEO Statement: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.