Rick Gevers & Associates

A busy week to share with you, with two new news director openings, and three newly named NDs, including the first ND for a FOX O&O that’s starting news in Charlotte. That brings our list of open news director positions to 21.

it’s been a busy week with four new news director openings and one large market (think really big market) news director named. That means there are now 20 openings.

This week’s report finds two new ND openings and three newly named NDs this week, leaving our list of open ND jobs at 20. Not included in that list of ND openings is the departure announced this week from CBS NewsPath of Bill Mondora, whose title is ND there.

There are two new ND openings this week, and, to the best of my knowledge, no newly named news directors in our report. That leaves our count of open news director positions at 20.

We have lots to report this week, including four new news directors and one new ND opening. That brings our count of open ND positions around the country to 18.

More activity this week than in the past few. There are three newly-named news directors to share, and two new openings, one created by the departure of an ND to Sinclair as director of news standards and practices which I believe is a new position there. Our count of open ND jobs remains at a lower-than-normal 18.

We have only one move to report to you this week, but it involves a longtime and well known news director moving to a network O&O in a top 20 market. That keeps our count of open ND jobs at just 18.

There’s one new ND opportunity (and it’s an interesting one) in this week’s report, and two new news directors. That drops our list of open jobs to just 18.

This week, one new opening, and two new news directors top our report. Those moves bring our list of open ND jobs to just 19.

Just one new ND and one new opening to report in this week’s edition, leaving our count of open ND jobs at 20.

The latest comings and goings of news directors drop out list of openings to only 20, with just one new opening this week, with two open jobs having been filled.

A flurry of newly hired news directors this week, with six positions being filled since our last report. And just two new openings, dropping our list of open ND jobs to 21.

In this week’s report, four newly named NDs with four new openings, bringing our count to 23 open news director jobs around the country. Two of those changes involve names you might recognize.

We have a flurry of new NDs to share with you this week. Four newly named NDs with just one new opening brings our count of open ND jobs to 21. However, as more than one of you have suggested in the past few days, that count could increase now that the rating period is over.

This week, we have two new ND openings and three newly hired news directors. That brings our list of ND openings to 25.

This week’s report features three newly named news directors, one who returns to a newsroom from a short consulting career. And the only new ND opening involves someone who himself had once been a consultant. Those changes leave our list of open ND jobs at 25.

While there is only one new ND opening, and three new NDs to introduce you to, there a lot of other items. One of those new NDs replaces a 45-year TV veteran. Those changes leave our list of open news director jobs at 26.

Just two new ND openings in this week’s report, and, as far as I know, no new news directors were named last week. That brings our list of open ND jobs to 27.

Another busy week to tell you about, with two new ND openings and three new NDs to tell you about. Our list of open news director jobs now stands at 25.

The first full week of 2013 brought two new ND openings and three new NDs to tell you about. Our list of open news director jobs now stands at 24.

We have two newly named NDs this week, and another two new openings. By my always unofficial count, there are 24 stations with known news director openings.

We have one newly named news director this week, one new opening, and we’re removing one station from our list of openings (which I’ll explain). Our figures now show 23 stations with ND openings.

We have three new NDs to share with you this week, while there’s just one opening that I’m aware of. That brings our count of open news director jobs to 24.

Five new ND openings this week, with three newly named NDs in our weekly report. By my very unofficial count, that means there are 26 news director openings around the country.

Three new news director openings, four new NDs, and a lot more in this week’s report. The ND changes bring our list of open news director jobs to 23.

There are two new ND openings and one newly named ND in this week’s report. We told you about two of those changes … both big surprises … last week. Those changes bring our list of open ND positions to 25.

Our recent trend of a declining number of open ND jobs reverses itself this week, as we have three new ND openings and NO newly named NDs to report. That brings our count of open news director jobs to 24. Six of those open jobs are concentrated in three relatively large markets: Phoenix, Indianapolis and Kansas City.

Hard to know what’s going on out there, but our list of open ND positions drops to a near-record low of 21 positions. That’s because we have three new hires to report this week, with no new openings. But we’ll tell you about one station which is stepping up the search for a new ND.

Our list of open news director positions continues to drop, as it reaches 23 this week. That’s due to two new news directors being named last week.

Another week, and another long list of newly named news directors to tell you about. There are four new NDs in this report, with two new openings. That lowers our count of open news director jobs to just 25.

There are three new ND openings and seven new ND’s to tell you about (including one in a top-10 market). Another of those openings was created by the promotion of an ND to a GM job at a sister-station. That brings our list of stations looking for a new news director  to 26.

There are three new ND openings (including one in the No. 1 market) and four new ND’s to tell you about including one in theNo. 2 market). Those moves mean we now have 29 stations looking for a new news director.

Two veteran news directors made news last Friday, one leaving for a new job, and one (in a top 25 market) just leaving. Those are our new openings this week, while we have three new NDs in our report. By my count, that brings our list of open news director jobs to 30.

We have two newly opened ND jobs in this edition, with no new openings. Our complete list grows to 31 stations with open news director jobs.

This week, we have three newly named NDs, with no new openings. That means we now have 31 stations listed with open news director jobs.

There are four new news director openings this week, all in medium and smaller markets. And two stations received new NDs since our last report. Our count of open ND jobs increases to 33.

Last week saw three new news director openings, including one in Indianapolis where a veteran news director left her station. Three other stations named a new ND (though all three have previous ND experience). That means our count of open ND jobs remains at 30.

We may be headed for the first husband-wife set of news directors at different stations at the same time. You’ll learn more about that possibility as you read about the three new ND openings which lead our report this week, along with four newly named NDs. That brings our count of open news director jobs to just 30.

Another busy week last week, with one new opening and five open news director positions filled. There are four new ND openings, and three new NDs to report. That reduces our count of open ND jobs to 31.

It’s been a busy week. There are four new ND openings, and three new news directors to report. By my count, that leaves 35 ND openings.