ASSISTANT NEWS DIRECTOR - KWTX

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 45 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 KWTX

KWTX News 10 is the dominant local news provider for the Waco-Temple-Killeen region, in the Heart of Central Texas. KWTX is the leader in every local newscast and on every digital platform. As a top-performing operation within Gray Media, we live "digital first" in our hearts, minds, and souls.

Job Summary/Description

Lead a dominant legacy newsroom that focuses on great people, great community, great culture, and great storytelling. Assist in creating and executing projects that "reimagine" the future of our industry and maximize new and emerging digital platforms. If your goal is to be a news director of the future, KWTX is the place to start.

Duties/Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Supervise reporters, anchors, videographers, and producers.
• Review scripts and rundowns, maintain quarterly TSR schedule.
• Plan/direct daily news coverage across all shows and social media platforms.
• Assist the news director in maintaining newsroom standards and accountability.
• Work alongside the digital content manager to distribute news fast on all platforms.
• Plan future coverage and create tools to track ongoing and follow up coverage.
• Create tracking systems to maintain accountability for daily enterprise story pitches.

Qualifications/Requirements

• News Consumer: Constantly cultivate exclusive content - monitor all available platforms.
• Digital Competency: Solid understanding of current platforms, distribution of content, and tools to measure growth. A mindset that always places digital first.
• Editorial Leadership: Excellent news judgment, enterprise/investigations support, fairness/ethics, strong writing/headline skills, and coaching to elevate storytelling.
• Motivational Skills: Capability to motivate team while holding those you lead accountable to high journalistic standards and the necessary planning skills for enterprise reporting.
• Content Production Knowledge: Understanding of basic rundown systems (ENPS), digital CMS, live production basics, field workflows, and modern video formats (vertical, explainers, lives).
• Superb Communication Skills: Desire and ability to cultivate and maintain sources with a high-level of regular communication.
• Management Experience: 3+ years newsroom leadership (EP/Managing Editor/Asst ND)
• Record of Success: Proven skills to direct breaking-news coverage on all platforms.

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)

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

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.