Career-track clinical professor (streaming media production and management)

Location: Arizona State University, Downtown Phoenix campus

About the role

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University seeks an experienced and innovative professional to serve as the lead instructor teaching students to produce, edit and manage content for audiences on streaming video platforms. Utilizing the School's streaming video platform, Cronkite+, as a laboratory, this role combines editorial leadership, mentorship, and teaching, ensuring students develop professional-level skills needed to thrive in a media environment rapidly evolving toward non-linear programming, on-demand video, and free advertising supported TV (FAST).

This role will help manage and facilitate collaborations with key partners, both internal and external to Cronkite, for streaming video production, including the School's live production operations, capstone programs, courses, and external events involving student instruction. Success is measured by the professor's ability to build an instructional production model that advances student learning and strengthens Cronkite+ as a learning and audience engagement platform. The role is central to Cronkite's efforts to integrate classroom learning with real-world production, business strategy, and industry-facing partnerships.

This is a full-time, benefits-eligible, 12-month appointment with a faculty rank of assistant, associate, or full clinical professor, based on qualifications and experience. It is a year-to-year appointment, not a tenure-track position, with no research or creative activity responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Instructional leadership for Cronkite+ and related channels
• Live production instruction and support
• Teaching lower-, upper-, and graduate-division courses connected to live event production, streaming media, and media business
• Close collaboration across the Cronkite School and with external partners
• Performing other duties as assigned

About The Cronkite School

The Cronkite School is widely recognized as the nation's premier mass communication school, ranked a top collegiate program by the Broadcast Education Association for four consecutive years. Rooted in the time-honored values that characterize its namesake—accuracy, responsibility, integrity—the school fosters excellence and ethics among students as they master the professional skills required to succeed in the digital media world of today and tomorrow.

Based on ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus in the heart of the nation's fifth-largest city, the School is known for its hands-on, "teaching hospital" approach to learning led by a faculty composed of Pulitzer Prize-winning professional journalists, strategic communications leaders, and world-class media scholars. More than 2,500 undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students regularly lead the country in national competitions as they prepare for careers in journalism, PR, marketing, strategic media, and related communication fields.

About Arizona State University

Arizona State University, ranked the No. 1 "Most Innovative School" in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for 10 years in succession, has forged the model for a New American University. ASU is a comprehensive public research institution, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural, and overall health of the communities it serves.

Qualifications

Required qualifications

• At least 7 years of professional journalism experience in live production, TV, streaming, broadcast operations, digital content strategy, or a related field, or equivalent specialized experience
• A master's degree

Desired Qualifications

• Significant professional experience in live sports production, broadcast production, streaming media, or sports content operations
• Demonstrated ability to teach or mentor students, early-career professionals, or production teams
• Ability to design courses, workshops, labs, or experiential learning models
• Strong understanding of production workflows, studio operations, field production, and live-event execution
• Ability to collaborate across academic, operational, and external partner environments
• Commitment to student success, professional standards, innovation, and inclusive excellence