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 nations top-ranked Cronkite Newsthe schools student-powered faculty-led news outletand 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 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

About Cronkite News

Cronkite News is a multi-platform 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 award-winning experienced professionals. Cronkite News is anchored inside a state-of-the-art newsroom located on ASUs Downtown Phoenix campus in the nations 11th-largest 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 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

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 masters 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