Open rank career-track professor (digital reporting and editing)

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 editing and publishing digital content in the nations No. 1ranked Cronkite Newsthe schools studentstaffed facultyled news outletand in related Cronkite courses.

This role combines editorial leadership mentorship and teaching ensuring students develop professionallevel skills in digital journalism while maintaining the highest standards of accuracy fairness and thoroughness. 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 digital news experience a creative thinker who is comfortable in a highly energized news environment and a studentfirst instructor inspired by the future of 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 fulltime benefitseligible 9month appointment with a faculty rank based on qualifications and experience. It is a yeartoyear appointment not a tenuretrack appointment.

Essential Responsibilities

Leading editing teaching and mentoring a team of upperlevel undergraduate and graduate journalism students in a fulltime daily news environment (typical hours are approximately 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday)

Teaching lower upper and graduatedivision courses in media skills

Coaching students through the ideation and reporting of compelling meaningful stories cultivating beats and sources and executing dayturn and enterprise stories

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

Editing written student work and related multimedia elements for publication on the Cronkite News website 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 digital and social media storytelling

Collaborating with other newsroom faculty students and staff

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

Performing other duties as assigned

About Cronkite News

Cronkite News is a multiplatform daily news operation that produces daily and enterprise news coverage of critical issues on Arizona PBS and digital audio and social platforms. The newsroom serves more than 1.8 million households with its nightly broadcast and Arizona and national audiences with its digital content regularly published by more than 100 media outlets. Cronkite News also serves as an immersive and innovative learning laboratory for students who create content under the guidance of awardwinning experienced professionals. Cronkite News is anchored inside a stateoftheart newsroom located on ASUs Downtown Phoenix campus in the nations 11thlargest media market with additional bureaus in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles.

About the Cronkite School

The Cronkite School is widely recognized as the nations premier mass communication school ranked No. 1 by the Broadcast Education Association for three consecutive years. Rooted in the timehonored values that characterize its namesakeaccuracy responsibility integritythe school fosters excellence and ethics among students as they master the professional skills required to succeed in the digital media world of today and tomorrow.

Based on ASUs Downtown Phoenix campus in the heart of the nations fifthlargest city the School is known for its handson teaching hospital approach to learning led by a faculty composed of Pulitzer Prizewinning professional journalists strategic communications leaders and worldclass media scholars. More than 2500 undergraduate masters and doctoral students regularly lead the country in national competitions as they prepare for careers in journalism PR marketing strategic media and related communication fields.

About Arizona State University

Arizona State University ranked the No. 1 Most Innovative School in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for 10 years in succession has forged the model for a New American University. Repeatedly ranked No. 1 ASU has topped more than 20 lists in the last three years: No. 1 in the U.S. for global impact (Times Higher Education) and No. 1 in the U.S. for sustainable practices (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education). ASU is a comprehensive public research institution measured not by whom it excludes but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic social cultural and overall health of the communities it serves. ASU operates on the principles that learning is a personal and original journey for each student; that they thrive on experience and that the process of discovery cannot be bound by traditional academic disciplines. Through innovation and a commitment to accessibility ASU has drawn pioneering researchers to its faculty even as it expands opportunities for qualified students attracting some of the highestquality students from all 50 states and more than 130 nations.

Required Qualifications:

Candidates must have a bachelors degree at the time of appointment and at least 10 years professional journalism experience in a majormarket or national media organization or equivalent specialized experience.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience reporting producing and editing written stories for local regional or national audiences ideally Arizona audiences

Experience leading managing and editing a team of journalists particularly earlycareer journalists

Mastery of AP Style

Measurable success in engaging audiences around news content

Experience developing a news beat

Experience developing and producing deeply reported enterprise journalism

Ability to create audio photo graphics interactives video and/or broadcast storytelling to complement written reporting

Experience teaching journalism or related topics at the university level

Demonstrated proficiency in new and emerging multimedia storytelling tools and platforms