News Director

Responsibilities

• Lead the execution of FOX 13’s news brand across broadcast, digital, streaming, and social platforms.
• Set the editorial vision and daily coverage strategy for the newsroom, with a focus on urgent, impactful local journalism.
• Grow storytelling and audience engagement across broadcast, digital, mobile, OTT/streaming, and social media platforms.
• Recruit, coach, mentor and retain a strong, competitive and collaborative news and production team.
• Create and execute innovative systems and strong standards for communication, content planning, storytelling, editorial decisions, workflows and production.
• Use audience data, analytics, and market research to guide coverage decisions, identify growth opportunities, and improve performance across platforms.
• Consistently monitor FOX 13 content across all platforms and provide regular, constructive feedback to the team.
• Champion strong writing, compelling storytelling, live coverage, breaking news execution, severe weather coverage, and enterprise journalism.
• Maintain high editorial, ethical, and legal standards.
• Lead newsroom planning for major events, elections, breaking news, severe weather, community coverage, and special projects.
• Partner with station leadership, the marketing team, the sales team, the digital team, and the production team to support station goals.
• Manage the FOX 13 news budget, staffing and schedules, and operational priorities.
• Create and implement workflow improvements, including use of technology and AI-assisted tools where appropriate, to strengthen journalism, efficiency, community commitment, and team performance.
• Provide clear strategy, direction, goals, and timelines for FOX 13’s news operation, and build systems to ensure those goals are met.

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a newsroom manager in a broadcast and digital environment
• Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communications or related field preferred; or equivalent experience
• Proven record of leadership
• Strong communication, delegation and problem-solving skills
• Strategic thinking