ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, MORNING EDITION, WBUR Local News and Programming
**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 produce 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.
WBUR is brimming with talent and ambition. Our colleagues work hard, strive for excellence, value truth, creativity, diverse perspectives, and open debate. Our culture is warm and welcoming — no matter what your role is — we work hard to ensure that everyone feels like they belong. On top of that people are both respectful and passionate about the work we do.
We’ve got exciting plans to keep innovating and building WBUR for the future. It’s a place to do meaningful work with interesting people and to learn and grow along the way.
We offer our employees both hybrid and in-office work arrangements.
We also offer:
**The Opportunity and Who You’ll Work With: **
Position Type: Regular, Full Time, Benefits Eligible
Work Format: Hybrid; open to negotiation -- minimum of 3 days onsite preferably more, maximum of 2 days remote, preferably less.
Schedule: Monday – Friday. Hours are typically 04:00AM-12:00PM Eastern Time.
Our Morning Edition team is responsible for localizing one of most important news magazine programs. The team includes five people -- an executive producer, one producer, one associate producer, a host, and a field producer. The team also includes key support from one of our broadcast recording technicians.
Each day, the team focuses on giving listeners the news they need to know to start their day. Morning Edition is an important mix of national, international, and Boston-specific stories. Our team is in charge of deciding which stories make up that broadcast for Boston listeners.
As Associate Producer of Morning Edition, you will play is a key part of our early news operation, responsible 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.
At the direction of the Executive Producer, you will help create Morning Edition each day -- helping to choose, report, write, and edit the stories that are most important to our listeners. You will create material during the morning news programming, including newscasts, host copy, and more. You will also produce midday newscasts once Morning Edition is complete.
You will help set WBUR’s news agenda for the day. And, as an editorial leader at WBUR, you will play a crucial role balancing the needs of Morning Edition with the needs of the organization as a whole, and work to nurture an environment in which talented journalists are able to do their best work.
Essential Functions:
This position is covered under our collective bargaining agreement with the SAG-AFTRA union and the minimum salary for this position is $67,958. Additionally, when compensation is being evaluated for a candidate finalist, that amount can increase as experience and internal equity are factored into the offer amount.
Required Skills
**What You’ll Need to Succeed: **
Education and Experience:
Capabilities and Proficiencies:
_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. _
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_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. _
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_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 ourTalent Community!
**If you require an ADA reasonable accommodation to complete your application and/or participate in the interview process, please let us knowhere. **
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
**What You’ll Need to Succeed: **
Education and Experience:
Capabilities and Proficiencies:
_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 ourTalent Community!
**If you require an ADA reasonable accommodation to complete your application and/or participate in the interview process, please let us knowhere. **
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.