Boston University Hiring for EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, MORNING EDITION, WBUR News and Programming at Boston, Massachusetts, United States Full Time

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, MORNING EDITION, WBUR News and Programming Tracking Code23500033731023Job Description

Who We Are & What We Can Offer You:

WBUR is Boston’s NPR and a public media leader, producing exceptional journalism on-air, online, on-demand, and in real life. Our mission is to provide high-quality journalism and enriching experiences that foster understanding, connection, and community for an expanding circle of people. WBUR is member-supported and licensed to Boston University.

Employees at WBUR are a team of professionals who value truth, diverse perspectives, and candid debate, creating a culture of mutual respect, passion, and belonging.

We’ve got exciting plans to keep innovating and building WBUR for the future.

We’re growing. And you’ll grow too.

We offer our employees a hybrid workplace, with a mix of remote, hybrid, and in-person work arrangements.

We also offer:

• Health and Well Being Benefits including Gender Affirming Healthcare
• Paid Time Off, Holidays & Intersession
• Tuition Remission and Professional Development through Boston University

The Opportunity and Who You’ll Work With:

Position Type: Permanent, Full Time, Benefits Eligible

Work Format: Hybrid

Schedule: Monday – Friday, 2 a.m. to 10 a.m., 40 hours a week

The Local News Department is at the heart of our operation at WBUR and is responsible for delivering a range of programs that include Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Radio Boston, weekend news, and newscasts.

Our Morning Edition program, airing from 5 to 9 a.m. on weekdays, is a cornerstone of WBUR’s local news offerings. Morning Edition is one of the top-rated news programs in all of Boston radio, providing our listeners with essential news, in-depth features, and compelling interviews to start their day.

As the Executive Producer of Morning Edition you are the cornerstone of our early news operation, accountable for the overall sound and editorial content of WBUR’s morning news programming and also for bringing the most urgent, timely, and local conversations to light through our powerful show team.

Primary duties include managing the execution of the show, including all material locally produced and broadcast by WBUR and stories from National Public Radio; you decide which feature stories, be they network or local, are the most important to our listeners and thus warrant inclusion in the broadcast; you will also edit and direct all local material broadcast during morning news programming including newscasts and continuity; and supervise the show’s host and producers.

You will also assist with setting the WBUR’s news agenda for the day. As an editorial leader at WBUR, you will play a crucial role balancing the needs of the Morning Edition team with the needs of the organization as a whole, and working to nurture an environment in which talented journalists can do their best work.

Your Responsibilities:

• (30%) Oversee all elements of Morning Assign, edit, and build newscasts. Review all show copy, editing as needed, to ensure it meets WBUR standards for fairness, newsworthiness, and accuracy. Direct live host interviews and reporter debriefs, and supervise the editing of in-show, pre-taped interviews. Determine the insertion of local material into the NPR broadcast. Direct the live show.
• (35%) Supervise Morning Edition staff; assign, coach and edit host, ME writers, producers, and field producer on short and long-format stories. Provide regular, constructive feedback on job performance, including annual performance Recruits and hires for open positions. Serve as a critical manager in our news organization.
• (15%) Aggressively pursue consequential news that breaks or develops overnight and during the broadcast, chasing newsmakers and coordinating with newsroom leaders to scramble reporters as needed.
• (20%) Participates in daily editorial conversation and planning to help develop short and long term coverage Leads regular team meetings to plan future coverage, fostering inclusive and supportive environments for the constructive development and refinement of show elements.

Required Skills

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent/significant relevant experience
• 5+ years of relevant work experience

Capabilities and Proficiencies

• An excitement about WBUR’s mission to provide an essential public good: high-quality local journalism and enriching experiences that foster understanding, connection and community.
• A commitment to journalism fundamentals, including accuracy, fairness, respect, honesty and independence on air and online (for more, see WBUR’s ethics guidelines).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Familiarity with broadcast operations.
• An understanding of the importance of managing for the team and for the organization as a whole Strong teamwork skills, and experience collaborating with hosts and producers.
• Ability to demonstrate grace under pressure.

In an ongoing effort to enrich our organizational culture, WBUR is committed to building a staff and leadership team that reflects the diversity of our city, region and nation.

Designing an organization where everyone thrives, creating connection and community that permeates our workplace requires real change across all facets of what we do and who we are.

We must hire, support, develop, advance and retain diverse talent at all levels of the organization with a standard of inclusive excellence.

If you are excited by this opportunity and have a passion for our mission – whether you meet all or some of our criteria – we want to talk to you. After submitting your application – join our Talent Community!

If you need to make a request for an ADA reasonable accommodation in order to complete your application and/or participate in the interview process, please let us know here.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, natural or protective hairstyle, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, or because of marital, parental, or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

Required Experience Job LocationBoston, Massachusetts, United StatesPosition TypeFull-Time/Regular