ASSISTANT NEWS DIRECTOR - WBAY

Job Description

About Gray Media:

Gray Media, or Gray, is a multimedia company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, formally known as Gray Television, Inc. The company is the nation's largest owner of top-rated local television stations and digital assets serving 113 television markets that collectively reach approximately 36 percent of US television households. The portfolio includes 77 markets with the top-rated television station and 100 markets with the first and/or second-highest-rated television station, as well as the largest Telemundo Affiliate group with 43 markets totaling nearly 1.5 million Hispanic TV Households. The company also owns Gray Digital Media, a full-service digital agency offering national and local clients digital marketing strategies with the most advanced digital products and services. Gray's additional media properties include video production companies Raycom Sports, Tupelo Media Group, and PowerNation Studios, and studio production facilities Assembly Atlanta and Third Rail Studios.

About WBAY:

Winner of recent regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for Best Newscast and Overall Excellence, WBAY is the market-leading station in the city which U.S. News & World Report named as 2023’s Best Place to Live in the Country: Green Bay, Wisconsin. As the first TV station in the area and only the second in the state, WBAY has a rich history of community involvement, sponsoring local events, supporting Toys for Tots, and producing the longest-running local telethon in the country. As an NFL town situated on the Great Lakes, Green Bay is a safe and affordable midsize community with something for everyone. Tour Lambeau Field, go hiking or kayaking in picturesque Door County, check out a local brewery, or catch nationally-touring concerts and stage shows.

Job Summary/Description:  

The Assistant News Director oversees the daily news gathering efforts of the news team, guiding coverage across multiple platforms and ensuring that the end product delivers on key brand strategies. As part of your responsibilities, work will be performed for all media platforms and initiatives, including for example: on-air, web, digital, and social media. In conjunction with the News Director, the Assistant News Director develops and implements long-term and short-term news strategies for product evolution and growth. The Assistant News Director coaches team members at various stages of development. This person also manages schedules for all on-air talent or other news employees.

We want you to help lead a staff that produces the number one rated newscasts and digital products in the market and beyond. You have to be an amazing writer and storyteller with at least two years of experience as a newsroom manager - Assistant News Director or Executive Producer. You have to be able to help people motivate themselves, be able to teach and collaborate with producers, reporters, anchors, sports and weather teammates. You have to know what works across all platforms now and what should work best in the future. Must have excellent editorial judgment for weather and breaking news.

Duties/Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

- Must manage and advise on compelling, impact-driven news and weather.
- Must understand storytelling and how to develop unique, enterprise content across platforms
- Work closely with marketing, sales and engineering
- Must have strong interpersonal skills. Qualified candidate will display enthusiasm, commitment, and display genuineness in dealing with others. Must work well in high pressure news environment and maintain a level of professionalism and patience. Great people skills with emphasis on coaching, motivating, and mentoring.
- Must be creative with, and persistent with targeting on-air and digital coverage of stories
- Help research, gather and check news stories for on-air and online while teaching improvements
- Know what is going on locally, nationally and internationally as it may impact our community or add value to our viewers lives.
- Leads story selection process through editorial and rundown meetings with the Assignment Manager.
- Must support the visual and written storyteller; help producers and MMJs understand the power of people and capturing moments and adding value to our stories as opposed to "press release journalism."
- Must understand and pursue the News Director's wider vision.
- Will work on award submissions and on maintaining a video newsroom log of top stories.
- Learn a broad and working knowledge of the viewing area, including people, places, things and history
- Critique: Offer daily feedback and set up training sessions. Watch our newscasts and know what to praise and what needs a conversation.

Additional Info:

Gray Media provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Gray Media complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Gray Media expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Gray’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

Job Requirements

Qualifications/Requirements:

- BA in Journalism or related field preferred
- Minimum 2 years of experience in television news management.
- Strong management, communication and people skills
- Ability to complete tasks with little supervision
- Knowledge and understanding of digital and social platforms
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to multi-task in high stress situations

If you feel you’re qualified and want to work with a great group of people,  go to https://gray.tv/careers#currentopenings, you may type in the job title, station call letters, or click on "apply now", upload your resume, cover letter, and references

(Current employees who are interested in this position can apply through the Gray-TV UltiPro self-service portal)

WBAY-TV/Gray Media is a drug-free company

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