The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University seeks an experienced and innovative professional to serve as the lead instructor teaching students to produce, edit and manage content for audiences on streaming video platforms.
Utilizing the School’s streaming video platform, Cronkite+, as a laboratory, this role combines editorial leadership, mentorship and teaching, ensuring students develop professional-level skills that are needed to thrive in a media environment rapidly evolving toward non-linear programming, on-demand video and free advertising supported TV (FAST). This role will help manage and facilitate collaborations with key partners, both internal and external to Cronkite for streaming video production, including, but not limited to the School’s live production operations, capstone programs, courses and external events involving student instruction.
Success in this role is measured by the professor’s ability to build an instructional production model that advances student learning, strengthens and contributes to the growth of Cronkite+ as a learning and audience engagement platform. The role will be central to Cronkite’s efforts to integrate classroom learning with real-world production, business strategy and industry-facing partnerships.
As a member of the faculty, the professor will have teaching and service responsibilities with the Cronkite School. In this role, there are no research or creative activity responsibilities.
This is a full-time, benefits-eligible, 12-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
● Instructional leadership for Cronkite+ and related channels
● Live production instruction and support
● Teaching lower-, upper- and graduate-division courses connected to live event production, streaming media, media business
● Close collaboration across the Cronkite School and external partners
● Performing other duties as assigned
About the Cronkite School
The Cronkite School is widely recognized as the nation’s 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 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 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 in live production, TV, streaming, broadcast operations, digital content strategy or a related field, or equivalent specialized experience.
● A master’s degree
Desired Qualifications
● Significant professional experience in live sports production, broadcast production, streaming media or sports content operations.
● Demonstrated ability to teach or mentor students, early-career professionals or production teams.
● Ability to design courses, workshops, labs or experiential learning models.
● Strong understanding of production workflows, studio operations, field production and live-event execution.
● Ability to collaborate across academic, operational and external partner environments.
● Commitment to student success, professional standards, innovation and inclusive excellence
Applicants will be asked to create or use an existing Interfolio Dossier to submit the following:
Successful candidates will demonstrate throughout their materials how their teaching, research, and service will contribute to the fulfillment of theASU Charter
The applicant’s name should appear in each uploaded file name. Cover letters may be addressed to the Search Committee Chair, Julia Wallace. Questions about the position should be directed to the search committee chair at: julia.wallace@asu.edu
Application deadline is August 24, 2026Applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis for a reserve pool. Applications in the reserve pool may then be reviewed in the order in which they were received until the position is filled.
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