Digital News Director

This is a Full Time Job

ities and celebrates and represents Latinos of all generations. Estrella MediaCo is the trade name of MediaCo Operations LLC.

Digital News Director
Position Summary
Estrella MediaCo is looking for a take-charge Digital News Director. As the day-to-day manager of our digital news operations this person must understand, embrace and implement the long- and short-term strategies of the station. The News Director will be responsible for creating and delivering content that delivers the highest available audience possible. This position will manage departmental expense budgets to control operating costs; find creative ways to keep newsroom employees motivated and engaged, manage digital news employee retention and recruitment. This person should have a network in the industry to identify up and coming news talent. In addition, the Digital News Director will be the primary point of contact in the newsroom, demonstrate fairness and consistency in all interactions and be a solid team player with other department heads. The ideal candidate must have skills to develop content. The Digital News Director must have the ability to identify problems and offer solutions must be a leader, facilitating teamwork of a medium to large staff members.

Responsibilities:
• Provide leadership, vision, and management to the news digital channel.
• Work with Executive Management and other departments to asses and respond to news department needs.
• Provide hands-on, day-to-day supervision in every aspect of digital news operation up to and including; producer responsibilities of digital news programs, content review and evaluation, delegation of work assignments for all digital news personnel, as well as day-to-day assistance to digital news producers and staff.
• Recruiting, hiring, coaching, training and attendance and labor tracking oversight for digital news personnel.
• To develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external staff and support personnel.
• To ensure the continual functioning of newsroom critical operations.
• Serve as primary contact with outside vendors that provide services to the digital news department.
• Create strategies to drive departmental growth.
• Provide editorial guidance to the team.

Minimum requirements
• Bachelor's degree in journalism preferred and/or a minimum of 10 years management/leadership experience in a news department setting in a medium or large Hispanic US Media Market.
• Experience with digital media platforms preferred
• Strong supervisory and logical problem-solving skills.
• Experience and working knowledge of technical and production equipment, including Avid editing systems, digital news processing systems, and electronic field news gathering equipment.
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Excellent technical, journalistic and leadership skills. A team player with a positive attitude and a focus on business and community issues with the ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure in preparing 3 or more ''live'' newscast.
• Experience thinking critically about organization, production and workflow, and identifying needs for development.
• Must have previous experience managing news teams, working with iNews, and Assignment Desk
• Must be able to work efficiently under pressure.
• Must be highly motivated, aggressive and results oriented.
• Attention to detail, organized and thorough, with desire for continuous improvement.
• Strong proficiency in all Microsoft Office products.
• Bilingual: Must be fluent in reading, writing and speaking English and Spanish.

Eligibility Requirements:
• Must be willing to work in Burbank, CA (no relocations)
• Must be willing to work long hours, holidays and weekends on short notice.
• Must have legal authorization to work in the United States
• Must possess valid driver's license and a good driving record.
• Must be 18 years or older

Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

Estrella MediaCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer.