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About the Role

WNYC is seeking a Supervising Senior Producer for its weekend magazine shows, Weekend Edition and Weekend All Things Considered. This role will oversee the sound and editorial direction, supervise producers, and coordinate with hosts and engineers. The ideal candidate will push storytelling boundaries with creativity, integrate data analysis with inventive approaches, and inspire teams to reach new, diverse audiences. This newsroom leader will reinforce a culture of audience centricity, professional respect, and journalistic excellence, acting as a conduit between management and individual contributors.

Responsibilities

Oversee the programming, production and editorial needs of WNYC’s weekend magazine shows.
Set the shows’ daily rundown, delegating tasks, and prepare hosts.
Lead planning for each weekend’s coverage as well as logistics for breaking news.
Directly manage producers and daily assignments, providing clear expectations as well as consistent feedback.
Lead weekly meetings with the weekend hosts and producers; represent weekend coverage at newsroom meetings.
Hold all content up to the highest standards, editing for adequate sourcing, accuracy, fairness and clarity.
Collaborate with newsroom editors on assignments, ensuring our reporting is multiplatform and aligned for all our audiences.
Collaborate with the shows’ engineers throughout each live broadcast.
Reinforce standards for ethics, professionalism and excellence, regularly articulating how coverage fits into the WNYC newsroom vision of serving the needs of a diverse population, and encouraging the production of content that gives daily utility to listeners and readers.
Model and exhibit the highest standards of professionalism at all times.
Propose and accept one-time or ongoing assignments or special projects within the newsroom, as decided with their relevant supervisor.
Serve on newsroom committees focused on issues such as editorial standards, style or training.

Requirements

5+ years of professional experience producing audio news.
Sophisticated understanding of the broadcast landscape, including applicable metrics, relevant audience trends, and audience engagement techniques.
Experience in using audience data to inform good journalistic decisions to drive results.
Demonstrated commitment and ability to contribute an equity lens to every aspect of people development and management processes, and ability to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion competency in their teams.
Demonstrated knowledge of complex social and cultural issues.
The intellectual and emotional depth, maturity, self-confidence and interpersonal skills to work effectively and/or interact with the public and with other staff at NYPR.
Self-starter with proven ability to meet deadlines and pay close attention to detail and fact-checking.
Ability to manage several projects concurrently.
Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a team and supervise content creation.
Excellent broadcast writing and editing skills.
Experience working with and managing on-air talent.
Fluency in audio editing, working in a variety of content management systems, and other broadcast and digital delivery systems.
Interest and appreciation for the medium of audio and text and how they can be used to reach separate audiences.
Experience leading breaking news coverage.
Impeccable journalistic integrity and editorial judgment.
Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.

Skills

Audio editing
Content management systems
Broadcast delivery systems
Digital delivery systems

Location

Lower Manhattan

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$103,500.00

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Vacation time
Personal time
Sick time
Inclusive family leave

About the Company

The WNYC and Gothamist newsroom is looking for a motivated and thorough Supervising Senior Producer for our highly-rated weekend magazine shows, Weekend Edition and Weekend All Things Considered.
Supervising Senior Producers are newsroom leaders who reinforce our culture of audience centricity, professional respect and journalistic excellence.
New York Public Radio is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We continuously strive to place our employees at the center of our thinking and elevate inclusive practices to develop and support a more engaged and productive workforce.
Our journalism and operations in the service of that journalism benefit from a broad range of perspectives, from all backgrounds, at all levels of the organization.
Diversity is essential to honest, authentic, accurate storytelling and reportage; creating an institution in which all voices are encouraged, valued, and heard.

Equal Opportunity

New York Public Radio is an equal opportunity employer committed to achieving the goal of equal employment opportunity for all.
Applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions without regard to mental or physical disability, race, creed, color, religion, gender, national origin, citizenship status, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, employment status or any protected federal, state or local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.