News Director - Kalb

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 Power Nation Studios, and studio production facilities Assembly Atlanta and Third Rail Studios.

KALB is an NBC affiliate, located in Alexandria, LA. We also own the CBS and CW affiliates in the market (NALB and OALB, respectively). KALB is owned by Gray Television Inc., one of the fastest-growing broadcast and digital media groups in the nation. KALB produces a total of 29 hours of Live news programming per week. A market leader in News, digital, and social media, KALB Newschannel 5 is home to award-winning reporters and the recipient of the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters “Station of the Year” award.

Central Louisiana, a vibrant, diverse, stable community, is a great place to live and work. A community with a rich history, full of hard-working, caring people, striving to make Central Louisiana the place they call home.

KALB has a rare opening for News Director. If you are a high-energy, hands‑on newsroom leader, looking to mentor and develop a wonderful staff, this is the job for you. KALB is looking for the next newsroom leader of the Number 1 and Number 2 stations in Central Louisiana

The successful candidate will be a hands‑on news manager who has a proven track record for coaching and developing talent, solid journalism skills, planning, the desire and ability to own the big news story, and a passion for breaking news and weather.

• Experience establishing long‑range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them
• Ability to identify the developmental needs of others and to coach, mentor, or otherwise help others to improve their knowledge or skills
• Experience preparing and maintaining departmental budgets
• Proficiency with computers, telephones, copiers, scanners, and other office equipment
• Experience with executing a Breaking News Strategy
• Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize assignments, and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to effectively listen to fully understand employee needs and communicate with a team to shape a solution
• Ability to develop a creative news strategy based on research and follow the station brand, and execute during all newscasts.

The candidate will also be responsible for the following:

• Leads and supervises all aspects of news, weather, and sports programming production
• Manages all aspects of the News Department (other than Production)
• Plans and manages staffing, training, and performance evaluations for the News Department
• Makes decisions regarding hiring, evaluation, promotion, and termination of employees
• Develop a news coverage strategy for the station and its website
• Critiques newscasts daily to correct errors, improve coverage, and provide mentoring feedback to news staff
• Assigns projects to staff and verifies that deadlines are being met
• Ensures achievement of viewer rating goals
• Determines programming and evaluation of equipment needed to produce quality programming
• Responds to coverage questions
• Works with other senior station leaders to establish and reach station goals
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Is extremely detail-oriented
• The ability to manage breaking news to include ongoing/continuous coverage for several hours at a time

• Bachelor's degree in Broadcast…