Rick Gevers & Associates

A flurry of activity late last week produced a lot of news. We have three new news directors to tell you about, two just announced Friday afternoon. And we have two new openings, one created by an ND being promoted to a GM job within Hearst. That means, by our count, 34 stations are still looking for a new ND.

A surprising ND change in Phoenix is one of five new news director openings in this week’s report. And there are four newly named NDs. Those changes bump our list of open ND jobs to 34.

It’s a good week if your name is Williams. Two of our three newly named NDs have that surname. And we have three new ND openings, though none created by anyone named Williams. But one of those openings is created by the departure of a well known ND taking a digital job. Those changes bump our list of open ND jobs to 32.

This week’s report contains three new vacancies, all in large markets, while we have two new ND’s. That brings our count of open news director positions to 31.

Just one new ND to my knowledge last week, but three new openings, bringing the list of openings to 30.

Lots of activity this past week, much of it involving longtime news directors, some in top five markets. In all, we have four new ND openings, with just one newly named news director in our report. That brings our count of open ND jobs to 28.

We have three new ND openings this week, with just one newly named ND to report. That moves our list of ND openings to 25.

One new ND to report. One name in the news. And one new news management opening. That chages our count of open ND positions to just 23.

This week’s report will introduce you to three newly named news directors, and those moves resulted in two new news director openings. That changes our count of open ND positions to 24.

No new news director openings and five newly named NDs. Two of those newly filled ND jobs are in California and two are in Texas. Those changes leave our count of open ND positions at 26.

There’s one new ND opening this week: it’s in a top 20 market. That change moves our count of open ND positions to 30.

We have news of a start-up news operation in Missouri this week … it’s been a while since we’ve seen one of those. That’s one of two new news director openings, while three stations have new faces running the news department. Those changes leave our count of open ND positions to 29.

For the second consecutive week, we have two new news director openings and three newly named NDs. Both of the new ND openings are created because the incumbents are taking news management positions in larger markets. Those changes lower our count of open ND positions to 29.

With two new news director openings and three newly named news directors, our count of open ND positions stands at 30.

Just one new ND opening in this week’s report, and to the best of my knowledge, there are no newly named NDs. That brings out count of open news director positions to 31.

There was a flurry of activity late Friday afternoon. We now have three new news director openings and three new news directors. Those changes bring our list of open ND jobs to 30.

It’s been an interesting week. Four new ND openings. Two newly named NDs, both in top 10 markets. A new corporate news executive. A former ND turned GM moves to the No. 4 market. Those changes bring our list of open ND jobs to 29.

The end of the rating period may have helped create some of the three new news director openings in this week’s report. And there’s one newly named ND to tell you about. That brings our list of open ND jobs to 26.

There are two new news directors, both in top 30 markets in this week’s report. And one of those newly named NDs creates one of the two new vacancies we have. So … our count of open ND jobs moves to 24.

Another busy week, with three new NDs (one in a top 10 market) and just one new opening (and that in a top 20 market). Those changes leave our count of open ND jobs at 23.

Two new news directors this week, two new openings and some updates to our list of Other News Management openings. It’s been a busy week. Those ND changes leave our count of open ND jobs at 24.

The start of the February rating period means a slow week in news manager movement: just one new ND to report (and can you call someone who’s been an ND at the same station three times….new?). And, to my knowledge, no new openings. Those changes leave our count of open ND jobs at 24.

Congratulations are in order for three new news directors named this week. Two of them are veteran NDs, while one is a first-timer. And there is one new opening. Those changes leave our count of open ND jobs at 25.

We have three new news directors in this week’s report, including one in a top 10 market. And there are three new openings to tell you about. Those changes leave our count of open ND jobs at 26.

We have two new NDs this week (both in top 25 markets), and one new ND opening. All these moves involved veteran news directors. That leaves our list of open ND jobs at 25.

We have one new ND this week (in Washington), and one new ND opening (created by someone leaving for a network bureau position in Washington). We also have some newsroom consolidations to tell you about. Our list of open news director jobs now totals 25.

We alerted you last week to a new ND opening in Dallas, but the biggest surprise in this ‘s report may be the new news director at a small market Wisconsin station. That news is one of five new NDs named this week. And the Dallas vacancy is the only new ND opening I’m aware of. Our list of open ND jobs now totals 26.

We’re always happy to report when a news director is being promoted to general manager, and that happened with a Memphis ND last week. And her assistant ND was promoted to be the next ND there. That’s one of two new NDs to tell you about this week, while we have three new news director openings. Our list of open ND jobs now totals 28.

Lots and lots of news this week. We have just a handful of news director changes: Two new NDs were named and there are two new ND openings, bring our list of open ND positions to 26.

We have a busy report this week. Two new NDs were named (one in a very large market and one in a very small market) and two new ND openings. That brings our total of open news director positions to 25.

We have one new opening to tell you about this week, two new news directors, and (in a category we don’t see often) one new/old news director in this week’s report. That brings our total of open ND positions to 27.

We have four new ND openings, and, to the best of my knowledge, No new NDs were hired last week, bringing our total of open ND positions to 27.

We have just one new ND to introduce you to in this week’s report, and, to the best of my knowledge, there are no new openings. That brings our count of open ND jobs to 23.

A new news director in a top-20 market is one of two new NDs to tell you about this week, while we have just one new opening. That brings our count of open ND jobs to 24.

In this week’s report, we have just one new news director to tell you about, while there are two new openings. Interestingly, all of the openings are in the same state. That brings our count of open news director jobs to 25.

In this week’s report, we have three new news directors to tell you about, while there are three new openings, bringing our count of open news director jobs to 23.

It’s been a busy week for ND changes, with two new openings … one in a top-five market … and five new news directors to introduce you to. That reduces our list of open news director jobs to 27.

Just one new news director and one new opening in this week’s edition, so our count of open ND jobs remains at 31.

We’re still in a rating period but there’s a lot of movement among news directors this week. We have four new openings to report, with three new NDs to introduce you to, although all three newly named NDs are not really ‘new’ news directors. Those changes bring our list of available ND jobs to 31.

There are three new news director openings this week, with two “new” NDs to report, though bothof the latter have had multiple ND jobs during their careers. That brings our count of open ND jobs to 30.