National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)

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New Job at NABJcareers.org Staff Editor @Inc.: New York, New York Mansueto Ventures ABOUT THE ROLE Inc. Business Media is looking for a creative staff editor to help steer our popular workplace coverage on Inc.com. This unique role involves a mix of writing, editing and curation and operates on a Sunday – Thursday work schedule.   This is a position covered under the Writers Guild of America East Collective Bargaining Agreement.    Salary range: $79,000 - $84,000 + bonus eligible. Compensation may vary based on relevant experience, skills, industry, and education.   WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING  * Pitching and writing 3+ stories per week, focusing on workplace topics like hiring, HR and workplace trends. * Editing columns and source wire stories on Sundays. * Building relationships with expert sources in the workplace beat. * Ensuring that all our content is timely, SEO optimized and factually accurate. * Occasionally pitching in across other verticals on inc.com, and helping with larger editorial projects and research, as needed. See more jobs on the NABJ Career Center at NABJCareers.org #NABJJobAlerts

New Job at NABJcareers.org KFSN Manager - News & Content: Fresno, California ABC30 Fresno Disney Entertainment’s eight-owned ABC stations are multiplatform leaders in local news and information. KFSN-TV ABC30 is the No. 1 source for local news in central California, both online and on the air. The station has dominated the local news ratings in the San Joaquin Valley for decades as a leader in multiplatform audience engagement. KFSN-TV is an ABC-owned television station based in Fresno, serving Fresno, Madera, Merced, Mariposa, Tulare, and Kings counties.  KFSN-TV is seeking a Manager – News & Content to supervise day-to-day news content and broadcasts.  The market’s long-time #1 news team is seeking a candidate with superior news judgment and strong editorial, promotional, and communication skills. The ideal candidate will be a dynamic and dedicated hands-on newsperson to lead the daily operation of linear and digital content creation for ABC30.  Must be a master show doctor who knows how to create extremely compelling and visual newscasts.  The successful candidate will have a high degree of ethics, empathy, and professionalism, function well under pressure, and have strong multiplatform and multi-tasking skills. Our team is aggressive with breaking news and severe weather coverage on all platforms while also excelling in enterprise and community reporting.  What You Will Do * Supervise producers, reporters, photographers, and multi-media journalists * Directly report to the Vice President/News Director and collaborate closely with other newsroom managers on content creation, editorial strategy, and staffing. * Collaborate closely with various departments, including production crews, programming, and marketing. * Collaborate with other OTV leaders on story coverage, synergy, and special projects. See more jobs on the NABJ Career Center at NABJCareers.org #NABJJobAlerts

New Job at NABJcareers.org QVC and HSN Host: West Chester, Pennsylvania Sean De Simone Casting National Casting: Full-Time Hosts for QVC and HSN   Join our dynamic team at QVC and HSN as we seek full-time Hosts. As world leaders in video commerce, we offer video-driven shopping experiences across linear TV, e-commerce sites, digital streaming, and social platforms."     Key Qualities/Skills We Are Looking For: ·      Masterful Storytellers: ·       Your ability to weave compelling narratives around lifestyle products is crucial. This involves using both long and short-form content to engage your audience effectively. ·       Your storytelling should be vibrant and confident, effectively showcasing product features and benefits. ·      Multimedia Proficiency: ·       Candidates need to be comfortable engaging audiences across television, live streaming, and digital platforms. This means you should be versatile in adapting your style to different media formats and platforms such as social media. ·      Building Trust and Influence: ·       Establishing authenticity and sincerity with viewers quickly is necessary. Your engagement should foster trust and build relationships with audiences across diverse platforms. ·       Proven success in developing and maintaining a loyal following or audience, whether on digital, social, or broadcast platforms. * Demonstrate the capacity to communicate effectively and persuasively, guiding audience opinions and actions while remaining authentic and transparent.   ·      Adaptability and Quick Thinking: ·       Ability to think on your feet and keep the audience engaged through improvisation and spontaneous interaction. ·       A natural curiosity and motivation to learn new things and innovate in presenting products. ·      Relatability and Inspiration: ·       Bring your wealth of lived experiences to the role, exuding a relatable persona that inspires and connects with a wide audience. ·       A genuine enthusiasm and zest for life, engaging authentically with viewers. See more jobs on the NABJ Career Center at NABJCareers.org #NABJJobAlerts

New Job at NABJcareers.org Creative Director: Washington, Washingtonian Magazine Washingtonian is seeking an imaginative, collaborative, and relentlessly ambitious leader for its creative department. For 60 years, the award-winning city magazine for the Washington area has been a home for groundbreaking feature writing, essential service journalism, and arresting visual storytelling. We’re looking for someone who can help us take the magazine to the next level, leading a high-caliber team of designers, photo editors, and staff photographers. Responsibilities: * Overall look and feel of the magazine from a visual perspective * Management of a small art and photography team * Brainstorming and designing covers * Designing features and service packages * Directing staff and freelance contributors, and managing workflow * Working with editors on visually-driven story ideas * Managing a budget * Helping plan and design ancillary publications * Helping with the design of online versions of print articles * Providing input on all aspects of the brand's visual presence Unofficial responsibilities include: helping create a freewheeling creative environment where staffers are encouraged to cook up ambitious ideas big and small; inspiring a talented team of designers who want to step up their game and editorial folks who want to better collaborate; setting and maintaining high visual standards; and having a lot of fun while doing so. In addition to first-class design skills, our ideal Creative Director would possess a large rolodex of artists and photographers who can help make our pages even more exciting. The Creative Director reports to the Editor-In-Chief. See more jobs on the NABJ Career Center at NABJCareers.org #NABJJobAlerts

New Job at NABJcareers.org KGO - President & General Manager: San Francisco, California ABC7/KGO-TV Disney Entertainment’s eight owned ABC stations are multiplatform leaders in local news and information. Emmy® Award-winning station KGO-TV ABC7 is the San Francisco Bay Area’s source for breaking news, weather and live video. Widely recognized for its solution-based promise to help the Bay Area communities, the station’s initiative “Building a Better Bay Area” dedicates more time, resources and reporting to the issues that impact its viewers’ quality of life. From the local economy and education, to health and safety, to issues impacting the environment, ABC7’s focus is to bring greater perspective on the challenges currently facing neighborhoods. KGO-TV is an ABC owned television station serving San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and all of the greater Bay Area. The President and General Manager of KGO-TV is responsible for leading and advancing the local owned ABC television station in the San Francisco Bay Area market, managing the strategies and teams that drive audience and growth across platforms.   This executive will be at the center of KGO-TV’s future success, upholding our commitment to quality journalism and the communities we serve while driving modernization across the organization, prioritizing an adaptable and inclusive culture that embraces change and innovation.   The General Manager will have a clear vision for the future of KGO-TV with the capability of communicating and executing that vision via hands-on leadership, optimism, strategic risk-taking and focused metrics of success. He or she will be a creative thinker who generates new ideas and understands how to maximize brands and resources to achieve market leadership. This includes developing strategies which evolve the KGO-TV brand from not only being the place to go for breaking news, but also where consumers can expect to find localized high quality, high impact journalism and content.   This executive will also work directly with the ABC Owned Stations leadership, and other businesses within Disney Entertainment Television as well as The Walt Disney Company to drive collective growth and success.  The hiring range for this position in San Francisco, CA is $412,000 - $552,500 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered. See more jobs on the NABJ Career Center at NABJCareers.org #NABJJobAlerts

New Job at NABJcareers.org Memphis Reporter, Chalkbeat: Memphis, Tennessee Civic News Company Civic News Company, parent company of the nonprofit newsrooms Chalkbeat, focused on telling the story of education in America; Votebeat, dedicated to in-depth reporting on elections and voting; and Healthbeat, covering public health and health policy both nationally and locally, is seeking a Memphis Reporter, Chalkbeat. This role will focus on telling powerful education stories in collaboration with MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, an award-winning nonprofit digital news site based in Memphis whose work focuses on the intersection of poverty, power and policy. This is an important moment to report on schools in Memphis. Its students face high child poverty rates and are still recovering from the learning disruptions of the pandemic. The school district, the largest in Tennessee, has experienced years of leadership turmoil. Faltering school turnaround efforts and a push to expand vouchers and charter schools carry big implications for students. These realities, set against a backdrop of historic civil rights battles that reverberate into the present day, create an environment rich with opportunities for high-impact and solutions-oriented stories.  This reporter will produce work for both Chalkbeat and for MLK50, benefiting from in-person support at the MLK50 newsroom while collaborating closely with Chalkbeat editors in Tennessee and nationwide. This position is a 12-month role with the possibility of extension. This position will report to Chalkbeat’s Tennessee Bureau Chief.   See more jobs on the NABJ Career Center at NABJCareers.org #NABJJobAlerts

New Job at NABJcareers.org Tennessee Bureau Chief, Chalkbeat: , Tennessee Civic News Company Civic News Company, parent company of the nonprofit newsrooms Chalkbeat, focused on telling the story of education in America; Votebeat, dedicated to in-depth reporting on elections and voting; and Healthbeat, covering public health and health policy both nationally and locally, is seeking a Tennessee Bureau Chief, Chalkbeat. This role will oversee our work across the state and captain our statehouse coverage. This is a critical time to cover schools in Tennessee, which is known nationally for its efforts to reform education policy and practice. The fate of high-poverty schools exiting a state-run improvement district, an expanded school voucher program, and the pandemic’s unprecedented disruption of student learning all loom large.  The Tennessee Bureau Chief is responsible for setting our coverage agenda with an eye toward making an impact, spotlighting inequities, and pointing toward solutions.  This position will report to Chalkbeat’s Editor in Chief. See more jobs on the NABJ Career Center at NABJCareers.org #NABJJobAlerts

New Job at NABJcareers.org NEWS DIRECTOR - KOTA: Rapid City, South Dakota Gray-TV About Gray Media: Gray Media is a leading media company that owns and operates high-quality stations in 113 television markets that collectively reach 36 percent of US television households.  We constantly strive for excellence. Through upgrading to the latest technology and seeking new ways to stay on top in our markets, we focus on training and development of the best and brightest employees in the business.  About KOTA: KOTA and KEVN are the ABC and FOX affiliates in Rapid City at the base of the beautiful Black Hills, delivering news under the KOTA Territory brand. KOTA and KEVN are the market leaders for local news, sports, and weather with a state-of-the-art facility. Both stations cover the Black Hills of South Dakota as well as parts of eastern Wyoming. Our team produces seven newscasts Monday through Friday and six newscasts on the weekends. KOTA & KEVN are located in Rapid City, SD television DMA Market 170, a community of approximately 100,000 television HH. Learn More About KOTA/KEVN Here: https://lnkd.in/gWCqv9u7 Job Summary/Description:                        KOTA Territory is looking for a News Director with impeccable news judgment and journalistic integrity who can lead an award-winning newsroom with superior communication, planning, and preparation. The ideal candidate will be a collaborator and motivator whose leadership style inspires our top-performing newsroom to achieve their highest potential. Duties/Responsibilities include (but are not limited to): - The successful candidate will have a proven track record of recruiting, coaching and developing talent and enjoy giving consistent, constructive feedback to journalists. - The ability to balance a commitment to owning the day’s breaking news coverage while executing a strategic plan for special projects will demand exceptional organizational skills and communication. - Leading and supervising all aspects of news content, including fostering a positive workplace culture where the team thrives individually and collectively. - Finding and investing in opportunities for employees to advance their skills, while identifying the next generation of journalism leaders. - Regularly evaluating content on all platforms to improve coverage and user experience, providing needed feedback to the team. - Working collaboratively with a highly functioning station leadership team to establish, pursue, and celebrate achieving goals. - Building a culture of workplace integrity where everyone feels visible, valued, respected, and a sense of belonging. 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,… See more jobs on the NABJ Career Center at NABJCareers.org #NABJJobAlerts

New Job at NABJcareers.org NEWS DIRECTOR - WCTV: Tallahassee, Florida Gray-TV About Gray Media: Gray Media is a leading media company that owns and operates high-quality stations in 113 television markets that collectively reach 36 percent of US television households.  We constantly strive for excellence. Through upgrading to the latest technology and seeking new ways to stay on top in our markets, we focus on training and development of the best and brightest employees in the business.  About WCTV: WCTV, located in Tallahassee, Florida’s capital city, is searching for an established news leader who can continue to grow this dominant news team as we evolve in this digital age. You would be leading an award-winning newsroom that has earned the FABJ Station of the Year title three years in a row and has won back-to-back NAB Service to America Awards. Job Summary/Description:                        Culture is first; success follows. If you lead by example, happily get in the trenches with the team, inspire innovative ideas, and promote a learning environment, your leadership style may mirror our needs. We are a digital-first newsroom that has a four-person digital team. This group is hungry and very passionate about growing all digital platforms. The successful candidate understands how to harness the latest data analytics to develop strategies to win on digital. A proven track record of effective ideas that increase livestream plays and video views on CTV apps is required. WCTV is also the home of Gray’s Florida Capital Bureau, housing a reporter and photographer. As News Director, you would play a key role in ensuring that the bureau is producing compelling on-air and online content that is applicable to viewers in 4 television markets across the Sunshine State. Our next News Director must have a keen understanding of strategic news content, multi-faceted digital operations, and the value of full social engagement by the entire team. We are looking for a leader who embraces creative storytelling and can ensure that our digital presence resonates with our audience's interests and needs. As News Director, you would oversee all content operations and be the leader in the strategic vision for station viewership growth. The General Manager plays a key role in collaborating on this strategic vision with you. Understanding the importance of the sales department turning special content opportunities into revenue-producing sponsorships is vital. Our news and sales managers converse openly and regularly. Duties/Responsibilities include (but are not limited to): · Strategically lead, inspire, and manage the news department. · Oversee on-air and digital news content. · Work closely with the news team to produce high-quality, relevant, local content that sets the station apart from competitors. · Protect… See more jobs on the NABJ Career Center at NABJCareers.org #NABJJobAlerts