GREETINGS MAC Members! The Cronkite School will be hiring two new professors of practice for a new professional program on Latino and border news and issues. The jobs are posted at https://cronkite.asu.edu/jjobs and the text is below. Professors of Practice, Cronkite Borderlands Initiative The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication seeks to hire two bilingual Professors of Practice with expertise in Latino and borderlands news coverage to lead a major new student reporting initiative at Arizona State University. The Professors of Practice will be part of the school易s Southwest Borderlands Initiative, in which advanced student journalists specialize in coverage of Latino communities and immigration and border issues. Students in the new program will report in both Spanish and English on the borderlands regions of the U.S. and Mexico as well as economic, cultural, legal, political and lifestyle dimensions of Latinos in the U.S. The students易 journalistic works will be distributed to professional media outlets nationally and will be a featured component of Cronkite News, a multi-platform news organization that includes Arizona PBS, the state易s public television station. Students will work out of a newsroom in the school易s state-of-the-art media complex in downtown Phoenix. One of the new appointments will assume the Lacey-Larkin Endowed Chair for Borderlands Issues, leading student reporting efforts for digital and print media platforms. The second will be a Southwest Borderlands Initiative Professor of Practice, leading student reporting efforts for broadcast television. The Borderlands Issues program will be one of a dozen immersive professional programs at the Cronkite School that include a nightly student newscast distributed to 1.9 million households on Arizona PBS; news reporting bureaus in Phoenix and Washington, D.C. that cover public policy issues for Arizonans; sports reporting bureaus in Phoenix and Los Angeles that provide sports coverage for professional outlets; and a New Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab that develops new digital products for media clients. Duties and Responsibilities Teaching and supervising upper-level undergraduate and graduate journalism students in the reporting of professional-level Latino, immigration and border issues in the U.S. and Mexico for distribution across media platforms; working with Cronkite leadership to establish the bureau as a leading source of news and information about Latino communities; working with other professional program directors at the Cronkite School to plan, manage and produce innovative and professional news and information content; developing partnerships with local, regional and/or national media outlets for distribution of student content; performing other faculty responsibilities, such as committee assignments and student recruitment, as assigned. Qualifications Required: Seven years of major-market, regional or national experience professional journalism experience with an emphasis on coverage of Latino issues; bilingual in Spanish and English, with the ability to write and edit professionally in both languages; bachelor易s degree Desired Experience editing on multiple platforms; experience leading a newsroom; experience working with undergraduate and/or graduate students in a university setting These are fiscal-year (12-month) appointments and hold the faculty rank of Professor of Practice. Application deadline: April 30, 2015, or if not filled, the first of each month thereafter until the search is closed. Application procedure: Materials must include: 1) a resume, 2) Web-based samples of work created or produced, and 3) names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of three professional references. Submit materials via email to: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Kristin Gilger Associate Dean Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication 555 N. Central Avenue, Suite 302 Phoenix, AZ 85004 Arizona State University is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. More detailed information can be found at https://www.asu.edu/aad/manuals/acd/acd401.html andhttps://www.asu.edu/titleIX/.