Gray Television hiring NEWS DIRECTOR - KGWN in Cheyenne, WY | LinkedIn (2024)

About Gray Television:Gray Television is a leading media company that owns and operates high-quality stations in 113 television markets, reaching 36 percent of US television households.

We constantly strive for excellence. By upgrading to the latest technology and seeking new ways to stay on top in our markets, we focus on training and developing the best and brightest employees in the business.

About KGWN:KGWN is a CBS Affiliate a top-rated station, located in Cheyenne, Wyoming. KGWN is the market leader with viewers relying on news, weather, sports, and entertainment. You will have the opportunity to solve customers' marketing needs with dominant news programming, and comprehensive digital marketing tools, to sell top-shelf sports offerings like NFL, March Madness, PGA Golf, and CBS Programming.

KGWN-TV is located in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a community along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Cheyenne is home to F.E. Warren Air Force Base, the Capital City, and Cheyenne Frontier Days the world's largest outdoor rodeo. With stations in Casper, Cheyenne, and Scottsbluff, NE we are focused on telling local stories that matter. We are dominant both on broadcast and digital. This is an excellent opportunity to work for a great station and company.

Job Summary/Description: 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. In this role, you will supervise the creation of the Wyoming News Now newscasts that are shared and the unique newscasts we produce for Casper, Cheyenne, and Scottsbluff. The primary production is in Cheyenne with a news bureau in Casper and a newsroom with unique weekday production in Scottsbluff.

Duties/Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• 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 station brand and execute during all newscasts.
• 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 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 needs 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 detailed oriented
• The ability to manage breaking news to include ongoing/continuous coverage for several hours at a time.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience
• Fluency in English
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Minimum five years experience in news programming production, with at least two years experience in a leadership role
• Experience guiding, directing, and motivating teams, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance

Preferred -Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity

Leader: Inspires teammates to follow them

Self-Starter: Inspired to perform without outside help

Ability to Make an Impact: Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization

Qualified, interested applicants may 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)KGWN-TV/Gray Television, Inc. is a drug-free companyAdditional Info:Gray Television 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 Television 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, and transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Gray Television 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.

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