Career-track clinical professor (video reporting)

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University seeks an experienced and innovative professional to teach and lead a team of advanced undergraduate and graduate students in reporting, writing and editing TV and video content in the nation’s top-ranked Cronkite News—the school’s student-powered, faculty-led news outlet—and in related Cronkite courses. This role combines editorial leadership, mentorship and teaching, ensuring students develop professional-level skills in video content, while maintaining the highest standards of accuracy, fairness and thoroughness. Video storytelling may include broadcast reporting, social media storytelling and non-narrative documentary production. Success in this role is measured by the success of students, and their ability to synthesize skills and knowledge from earlier courses inside a working newsroom environment. The successful candidate will be a journalist of the highest caliber with strong TV and video experience, a creative thinker who is comfortable in a highly energized news environment, and a student‑first instructor inspired by the future of broadcast and streaming news. The candidate demonstrates a commitment to accuracy, fairness and collaboration; possesses the skills to inspire, support and instruct a team of student journalists; and instinctively delivers clear direction and feedback. As a member of the faculty, the professor will have teaching and service responsibilities with the Cronkite School. In this role, there are no research or creative activity responsibilities. This is a full‑time, benefits‑eligible, 9‑month appointment with a faculty rank of assistant, associate or full clinical professor, based on qualifications and experience. It is a year‑to‑year appointment, not a tenure‑track appointment.

Essential Responsibilities

Leading, editing, teaching and mentoring a team of upper‑level undergraduate and graduate journalism and sports journalism students in a full‑time, daily news environment (typical hours are approximately 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday)

Teaching lower-, upper- and graduate‑division courses in media skills

Coaching students through the ideation and reporting of compelling, meaningful stories, cultivating beats and sources and executing day‑turn and enterprise stories

Managing daily story assignments together with fellow Cronkite News faculty, and collaboratively planning, managing and producing innovative and professional TV and video news content

Editing scripts, student work and related multimedia elements for publication on the Cronkite News show, website and social media, as well as for distribution to more than 150 clients across the country

Fostering a culture of innovation by harnessing fresh ideas and experimenting with new tools, technologies and techniques that enhance TV, video and social media storytelling

Performing service both internally (e.g., committee assignments, student recruitment) and externally (e.g. professional workshops, contest judging)

Performing other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

At least 7 years of professional journalism experience reporting, producing and editing video stories for local, regional or national audiences, or equivalent specialized experience.

A master’s degree

Desired Qualifications

Experience leading, managing and editing a team of journalists, particularly early‑career journalists

Mastery of AP Style

Measurable success in engaging audiences around news content

Experience developing and producing deeply reported enterprise journalism

Exceptional script writing, editing and video storytelling skills

Ability to create written, audio and/or photo storytelling

Experience teaching journalism or related topics at the university level

Demonstrated proficiency in new and emerging multimedia storytelling platforms

Knowledge of videography

Fluency in video editing with Adobe Premiere, or equivalent non‑linear video editing software

Spanish‑language proficiency

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