News Director - WFOX TV

Position Overview

WFOX/WJAX TV Jacksonville is seeking a strategic, team oriented, and passionate journalist to lead a powerhouse CBS/Fox duopoly as our News Director.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• By leveraging your deep experience in TV newsrooms, you will provide strategic and tactical direction for day-to-day multi-platform news coverage, breaking news, special projects, investigative reporting, special event coverage
• Create and drive strategies to augment and align digital and on-air staffs to grow both the digital platforms and reinforce and grow on-air ratings
• Ensure that the news team has absolute clarity of goals and expectations to drive quality results, employee satisfaction and accountability at all levels of the team
• Lead by example in seeking out diverse voices and perspectives in newscasts by encouraging the team to provide a full spectrum of thought around social and other issues when pitching and storytelling
• Strong servant leadership and collaboration skills to communicate and live our mission and vision around delivering the highest quality news, information, and investigations
• Lead and drive digital competency across the greater organization to help support efforts to increase quality content, broadcast brand engagement and digital audience
• The ability to operationalize brand and audience research across platforms to drive opportunities for growth
• Financial accountability for managing the newsroom budget, working with your team and our finance department to allocate resources and negotiate competitively with vendors and contract employees
• Strong ability to grow people through feedback and performance management and internal training opportunities
• Understanding of how to leverage value from external consultants and internal resources to accelerate desired results

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required (Journalism, English or Communications preferred) 
• Must have a minimum of 5 years of management experience in a broadcast newsroom 
• Experience in managing medium to large dynamic teams 
• Excellent communication, organization, and writing skills 
• Strong understanding and experience in managing digital media brands 
• Strong networking and community engagement skills