News Director

Salary Range: $75,000.00 To $80,000.00 Annually

Responsibilities: Lead the execution of Tri-State Trusted’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 Tri-State Trusted 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 KTVO and KHQA news/production 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 Tri-State Trusted’s news operation, and build systems to ensure those goals are met.

Qualifications: 4+ years as a newsroom manager in a broadcast and digital environment