💼 Full-Time Position

Assistant News Director

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Nexstar Media Group
📍 Sacramento, CA, United States
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Location
Sacramento, United States
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Posted
June 25, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Assistant News Director


FOX40 has an opening for an Assistant News Director who assists the News Director with all aspects of digital and linear news, weather and sports programming, production and overseas daily newsroom operations. This is a full time, in person position in the beautiful Sacramento DMA, a top 20 market.


Responsibilities:

+ Assists the News Director with management of all aspects of the News Department.

+ Serves as the Executive Producer for special projects.

+ Oversee daily newscasts and advise news managers.

+ Hiring reporters and managing their development, coaching to improve their skillset.

+ Responsible for evaluating stories; organizing them into a cohesive sequence within a newscast or digital content for the web.

+ Assists with planning, staffing, training, and performance evaluations for the News Department.

+ Develops new concepts for news coverage for the statio...