SENIOR EDITOR, HERE & NOW, WBUR News and Programming (23500333310522)
Boston University
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Posted: 26-May-23
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Type: Full-time
Salary: Open
Internal Number: 4220954
SENIOR EDITOR, HERE & NOW, WBUR News and Programming (23500333310522)
Tracking Code: 23500333310522
Job 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 a member-supported nonprofit and provides its journalism to the public for free, with no paywall or subscription. Our broadcast license is held by 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.
As Senior Editor, you will be responsible for managing daily news assignments. This includes assigning, organizing, editing, and producing stories for Here & Now. You will work with Here & Now producers and hosts to ensure timely delivery of stories for the daily broadcast and the daily podcast. You will participate in line producing the live broadcast and work with the Here & Now management team during breaking news.
You will occasionally edit scripts from Here & Now contributors, track story elements, coordinate mixing of final elements working with producers and audio engineers. You will be a liaison between Here & Now and contributing partners for regularly scheduled segments. You will participate in Here & Now editorial meetings and other meetings with WBUR and NPR as needed.
This position is based at WBUR in Boston.
Required Skills What Youll Need to Succeed:
Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent/relevant experience
5-8 years of relevant experience in journalism or equivalent
Capabilities and Proficiencies:
An excitement about WBURs 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 WBURs ethics guidelines).
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.
Please note all newly hired staff and faculty will need to be in compliance with Boston Universitys COVID-19 Vaccination and Booster Requirement within 30 days of date of hire. You must upload your vaccine documentation or request a medical or religious exemption (instructions). For further information on the Universitys response to COVID-19, please visit the COVID-19 Resources site.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, 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.
Job Location: BOSTON, Massachusetts, United States Position Type: Full-Time/Regular Salary Grade: Based on experience
Boston University is no small operation. With over 33,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 140 countries, 10,000 faculty and staff, 16 schools and colleges, and 250 fields of study, our two campuses are always humming.