Supervising Senior Producer

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.
• Serving on newsroom committees focused on issues such as editorial standards, style or training.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.