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News Director Mock Interview

To help you prepare for your News Director interview, here are 30 interview questions and answer examples.

News Director was updated by on April 19th, 2017. Learn more here.

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What are your ethical practices?

A news director often makes the most difficult decisions on what stories to cover and how to cover them. The candidate must discuss their experience making these decisions and can show that they are level-headed and confident with what the ultimately decide. Some of these ethical decisions are whether or not to reveal sources to the public, or whether or not to show violent crimes on video or in pictures on television during peak news hour. The candidate must show that they understand the severity of their decision and can back up what they do.



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30 News Director Interview Questions & Answers

Below is a list of our News Director interview questions. Click on any interview question to view our answer advice and answer examples. You may view six answer examples before our paywall loads. Afterwards, you'll be asked to upgrade to view the rest of our answers.

  • 1. What are your ethical practices?

  • 2. How do you find qualified candidates for news positions to hire?

  • 3. What is your experience managing finances for a department?

  • 4. What unique skills can you offer to our news department?

  • 5. What are your career aspirations beyond this point?

  • 6. What influenced you to become a manager?

  • 7. How do you decide which stories are the most important to cover for the day?

  • 8. What is your experience working with a sales department?

  • 9. What incentives do you give your employees to produce good work?

  • 10. How well do you work under stress?

  • 11. In what ways do you voice your opinion on story ideas to the newsroom?

  • 12. By this time in your career, you should have advanced further, what has slowed down your career progression?

  • 13. What is your favorite type of story?

  • 14. Where do you see yourself five years from now?

  • 15. What is your experience with firing an employee?

  • 16. How would you describe yourself as a manager?

  • 17. What are your salary expectations?

  • 18. What other experience do you have working in news or management?

  • 19. How do you plan to allocate spare money for the quarter?

  • 20. What experience do you have writing and editing story scripts?

  • 21. Why is this city/state/community a good fit for you?

  • 22. What qualities do you look for in hiring new producers?

  • 23. What qualities do you look for in reporters?

  • 24. How do you balance time between news, sales, and marketing departments?

  • 25. How do you plan to improve our viewership and ratings?

  • 26. How will you elevate our company?

  • 27. Why did you decide to get into the news industry?

  • 28. Why is this job right for you at this time?

  • 29. How does this position fit into your career plans?

  • 30. Why do you want to become a news director?