ASSISTANT NEWS DIRECTOR - WIS

Gray Local Media, Inc
Columbia, SC
Category Communications
Job Description
The Assistant News Director oversees daily news gathering efforts, guiding coverage across multiple platforms and ensuring the end product delivers on key brand strategies. As part of your responsibilities, work will be performed for all media platforms and initiatives, including on-air, web, digital, and social media.

Requirements

  • Manage and advise on compelling, impact-driven news and weather
  • Understand storytelling and develop unique, enterprise content across platforms
  • Work closely with marketing, sales, and engineering
  • Have strong interpersonal skills
  • 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
  • Lead the story selection process through editorial and rundown meetings
  • Support the visual and written storyteller
  • Critique and offer daily feedback

Benefits

  • Equal employment opportunities
  • Prohibition on workplace harassment
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