Career-Track Professor (Media Production)

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University seeks an experienced professional to lead the schools media production learning experiences manage production operations and inspire early-career creators to advance their production skills.

The professor champions production at the Cronkite School supporting students in studio and live production learning experiences and overseeing operations maintenance and support of the schools media equipment and growing television and podcast studios. As a master teacher the professor provides immersive instruction in all aspects of production from video editing and motion graphics to directing audio engineering lighting and camera operation for daily news and sports TV programs; as a disciplinary leader the professor ensures the Cronkite School advances production innovation by ensuring equipment environments and approaches are functional and forward-looking. The professor oversees a team of media production professionals including a broadcast engineer a studio manager and a production equipment manager all dedicated to ensuring production excellence and student success.

The successful candidate will be a knowledgeable production expert with vast TV and digital production experience and a student-first instructor inspired by the future of media. The candidate will demonstrate a commitment to organization and collaboration; an ability to communicate and motivate in high-pressure fast-paced production environments; possess the skills to inspire support and instruct student creators; and instinctively deliver clear direction and feedback.

This is a full-time benefits-eligible 12-month appointment based on ASUs Downtown Phoenix campus. It is a year-to-year appointment not a tenure-track appointment and carries the academic rank of assistant associate or full clinical professor or assistant associate or full teaching professor.

Essential Duties

Teach lower- upper- and graduate-division courses in media production skills concepts and approaches

Guide mastery-level students in production motion graphics and control room operations for the award-winning Cronkite News and other television programs and livestreams

Mentor students in all production roles providing hands-on instruction and motivation toward independent high-quality production

Oversee the Cronkite Schools television/video and podcast studios; control rooms; and related production equipment ensuring technical health accessibility and efficient support for students faculty staff and professionals

Foster a learning culture that inspires mass communication students with multimedia content tools and techniques

Serve as a media production thought leader proactively staying abreast of new tools techniques and technology; curating exemplars of superior content and approaches; and highlighting superb student work

Collaborate with school leadership and faculty to support and evaluate curricula.

Supervise a team of media production professionals to support production learning environments and operations

Supervise student workers in accordance with ASU Work standards including hiring training scheduling approving time and providing ongoing feedback.

Lead planning and implementation of studio and set upgrades

Working within project budgets

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

Perform other duties as assigned

About the Cronkite School

The Cronkite School is widely recognized as the nations premier mass communication school ranked a top collegiate program by the Broadcast Education Association for four consecutive years. Rooted in the time-honored 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 fifth-largest city the School is known for its hands-on teaching hospital approach to learning led by a faculty composed of Pulitzer Prize-winning professional journalists strategic communications leaders and world-class 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 highest-quality students from all 50 states and more than 130 nations.

Required Qualifications

Candidates must have a masters degree (for clinical professor ranks) or a relevant terminal degree (for teaching professor ranks) at the time of appointment and at least 7 years professional production experience in a major-market or national media organization or equivalent specialized experience. Assistant associate and full ranks are commensurate with experience.

Desired Qualifications

Demonstrated experience working in live and studio production environments with early-career professionals.

Demonstrated mastery of television and digital production workflows including switcher operations graphics systems playback systems audio/video routing livestreaming and encoding ideally in a news setting.

Experience with newsroom systems such as ENPS Chyron EVS and automation software.

Mastery of the Adobe Creative Suite (particularly Photoshop Premiere Pro and Audition).

Experience teaching production workflows technology and techniques across pre-production live production and post-production environments to others.

Evidence of a network of production professionals and experts who can advise on the field.

Experience working with undergraduate or graduate students in a university or professional setting and evaluating student work.

Experience using an online training or learning management system (e.g. Canvas Blackboard).