News Director - KIRO TV Job at Seattle TV-KIRO in Seattle

Cox Media Group in Seattle WA is seeking a strategic, innovative, team-oriented, and passionate journalist to lead KIRO 7’s news team as our News Director. KIRO 7 News is a well-respected organization driven by aggressive breaking news coverage, award-winning investigative storytelling, cutting edge producing, and our experienced and trusted KIRO 7 Pinpoint Weather team. This opportunity is for a leader who possesses a passion for local news along with the highest standards for producing unbiased and impactful reporting for our audience. Our ideal candidate will be an experienced, hands-on leader, with a vision and mission to serve the needs of our viewers while fueling the passion and professional development of our news team.

We are looking for a compassionate and empathic leader who is committed to coaching and developing the KIRO 7 News team to excellence every day. KIRO 7’s News Director will be a dynamic, forward-thinking leader with excellent news judgment to oversee all aspects of our daily news across all platforms. This individual will have the unique opportunity to lead our experienced team in the execution of exceptional newscasts and digital content across multiple platforms – while having a willingness to innovate and explore new ways to attract new audiences to all platforms.

Reporting to the Vice President/General Manager of KIRO 7, qualified applicants will have a proven record with executing research action plans, breaking news, investigative and enterprise reporting, and the delivery of successful digital products. Candidates must be collaborative partners, working closely with other department leaders on innovative opportunities that will advance newscast delivery, marketing and research strategies that will strengthen brands and grow our strong market position as well as innovative sales initiatives to help meet revenue goals. They will also have demonstrated leadership and skills in managing, developing, recruiting, and retaining talent. Candidates must have a strategic understanding of how broadcast, digital, radio and social can complement each other and can drive execution to achieve goals while maintaining high editorial standards.

The KIRO 7 News Director will value the talents and experience of our team and will cultivate an environment of inclusive idea generation and problem solving. KIRO 7 News has a long tradition of winning audience loyalty by presenting our communities’ stories based on their human experience, and we’re seeking the next great leader to continue our successes and take us to the next level.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• By leveraging your deep experience in TV newsrooms, you will provide strategic and tactical direction for day-to-day multi-platform news coverage, breaking news, special projects, investigative reporting, special event coverage.
• Create and drive strategies to augment and align digital and on-air staffs to grow both the digital platforms and reinforce and grow on-air ratings.
• Ensure that the news managers and team members have absolute clarity of goals and expectations to consistently pursue excellence and drive quality results.
• Leverage the Cox Custom Research team and other resources to develop strong action plans and execution accountability.
• Lead by example in seeking out diverse voices and perspectives in newscasts by encouraging the team to provide a full spectrum of thought around social and other issues when pitching and storytelling.
• Strong servant leadership and collaboration skills to communicate and live our mission and vision around delivering the highest quality news, information, and investigations.
• Lead and drive digital competency across the greater organization to help support efforts to increase quality content, broadcast brand engagement and digital audience.
• The ability to analyze brand and audience research across platforms to drive opportunities audience engagement and audience growth.
• Financial accountability for managing the newsroom budget, working closely with KIRO 7 News leadership team and our finance department to allocate resources and negotiate competitively with vendors and contract employees.
• Strong ability to grow people through feedback and performance management and internal training opportunities.
• Understanding of how to leverage value from external consultants and internal resources to accelerate desired results.

Minimum Qualifications

• Excellent communication, organization, judgement and writing skills.
• Strong understanding and experience in managing digital media brands.
• Strong networking and community engagement skills.
• Must have a valid driver’s license and clean driving record

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required (Journalism, English or Communications preferred)
• A minimum of 5 years television newsroom leadership experience is required, with previous news director experience preferred

The salary range for this position is $220,000 per year to $280,000 per year. Final compensation for the role will be determined by a variety of factors such as skills, certifications, and relevant work experience.

Benefits forthis roleinclude:

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insuranceavailable totheemployee and employee’s family(i.e.child, spouse, domestic partner).

Flexible Spending Accounts (healthcare and dependent care) and Health Savings Accounts

Short-termandlong-term disability and life insurance (supplemental and accidental, death, and dismemberment)

Participation inCMG’s401(k) planwith generous company matchand both pre-tax and Roth options

Paid flexiblevacationandup to four weeks (160 hours) ofpaid wellness time, inclusive ofpaidsickand safe time under applicable law.

Up to eight (8) paid holidays throughout calendar year 2026

Up to two(2)weeks of paid parental leave

Employeeassistanceprogram

All other benefits required by applicable law.

About Cox Media Group
CMG Media Corporation (d/b/a Cox Media Group) is an industry-leading media company with unparalleled brands, award-winning content, and exceptional team members. CMG provides valuable local and national journalism and entertainment content to the people and communities it serves. The company\'s businesses encompass 14 high-quality, market-leading television brands in 9 markets; 45 top-performing radio stations delivering multiple genres of content in 9 markets; and numerous streaming and digital platforms. CMG\'s TV portfolio includes multiple primary affiliates of ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Telemundo and MyNetworkTV, as well as several valuable news and independent stations. For more information about CMG, visit www.coxmediagroup.com

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