Associate or Full Professor - Broadcast Journalism

Job Details
Description
Closing Date - Open until filled with review of resumes to begin 5/1/09

POSITION DESCRIPTION AND DUTIES
The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism is seeking a broadcast journalist with significant experience in traditional television news who also embraces new techniques in video and audio storytelling. The position will require teaching, mentoring and helping develop an evolving broadcast curriculum in a converged media environment.

The successful candidate will be expected to remain active in the industry and develop a portfolio of video journalism projects that have been telecast and/or webcast by respected news organizations; to bring depth, enthusiasm and a strong sense of ethics to the classroom; and to participate in the public life of the school.

We seek journalists with strong ties to the professional community, locally, nationally and internationally. We value a commitment to diversity in news coverage and in the newsroom.
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is the only publicly supported graduate school of journalism in the northeast. Its mission is to provide an affordable, topnotch education in the profession as we strive to help give journalism the ethnic, racial and economic diversity to needs to accurately reflect the population it serves.

The School’s 18-month program instills in students the traditional skills, standards and verities of journalism, while training them in the multimedia tools and innovative forms of storytelling that will get them jobs and help them reinvent and seize new opportunities for journalism.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Candidates should have a Master’s degree and at least ten years of experience in broadcast journalism as a television reporter or producer, with at least five in a major market. Teaching experience is required. The preferred candidate will have some production and post-production experience, as well as an understanding of new media and an interest in producing across media platforms. Radio experience is an asset.

TO APPLY
Please send or email a letter of application, a curriculum vitae and contact information for at least three references to:
Address:
Prof. Linda Prout
Director, Broadcast Journalism Program
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
219 West 40th Street
New York, NY 10018

Or
Broadcast_search@journalism.cuny.edu
(Broadcast_search@journalism.cuny.edu)