Clinical Assistant / Associate Professor (global reporting)

Description

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University seeks an experienced journalist to teach and lead a team of advanced undergraduate and graduate students in international reporting and teach other skills and foundation courses across the school.

 This professorship lends focus to international reporting and global communities, advancing both coverage and student learning. Each spring break this professor leads a group of students to an international location to report on its communities; previous trips have included reporting from Panama, Costa Rica, Hungary, Tapachula, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and more. Upon return, students produce digital content (including text, photo, audio and video) as well as a magazine and a gallery exhibit.

 The role combines editorial leadership, mentorship, teaching and oversight of immersive field reporting experiences. The professor ensures students develop professional-level skills in 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 unfamiliar reporting environments.

 The successful candidate will be a journalist of the highest caliber with strong digital or visual news experience, a creative thinker eager to find new stories in new places, and a student-first instructor inspired to play an active role in the future of news. A deep understanding of international communities and the challenges they face is critical. The candidate demonstrates a commitment to accuracy, fairness and collaboration; possesses the skills to inspire, support and instruct a team of student journalists; and thoughtfully delivers clear direction and feedback.

 As a member of the faculty, the professor will have teaching and service responsibilities with the Cronkite School. This role carries no research or creative activity responsibilities.

 This is a full-time, benefits-eligible, 9-month appointment with the faculty rank of clinical assistant or associate professor. It is a career-track appointment, not a tenure-track appointment, based on the Cronkite School’s Downtown Phoenix campus.

 Essential Responsibilities

●      Teaching lower-, upper- and graduate-division courses in media skills and concepts

●      Coaching students through developing meaningful stories, cultivating beats and sources, and in-depth reporting

●      Editing written student work and related multimedia elements for publication

●      Leading, editing, teaching and mentoring a team of upper-level undergraduate and graduate journalism students in an annual (spring) student reporting trip to a newsworthy international region

●      Managing logistics of field reporting including identifying and hiring fixers, guides and interpreters.

●      Compiling and editing an annual book highlighting the student work produced from the trip

●      Fostering a culture of innovation by harnessing fresh ideas and experimenting with new tools, technologies and techniques that enhance storytelling

●      Collaborating with other faculty, students and staff

●      Working within project budgets

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

●      Performing other duties as assigned

 About the Cronkite School

The Cronkite School is widely recognized as the nation’s premier mass communication school, ranked No. 1 by the Broadcast Education Association for three consecutive years. Rooted in the time-honored values that characterize its namesake—accuracy, responsibility, integrity—the 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 ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus in the heart of the nation’s 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 2,500 undergraduate, master’s 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 the annual reporting project