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What is the role?
We are looking for a driven and creative podcast producer to join our team and help grow our award-winning slate of narrative and interview podcasts. You will lead one existing weekly interview podcast as well as one to two limited-run narrative miniseries per year. In this role, you would also work in collaboration with our audio team and alongside reporters and editors in Bloomberg’s wider newsroom. You would also have a hand in all aspects of production, from recording and booking interviews to pitching episode ideas and scripting, to audio editing.
We will trust you to:
- Handle pre- and post-production, including engineering and recording hosts and guests from remote locations
- Work with our journalists to develop ambitious show ideas and translate them to an audio format
- Edit and refine outlines, scripts and long-range story arcs for narrative shows
- Embark on field recordings that produce broadcast-quality audio whenever possible
- Contribute to team meetings and provide peer feedback in edits and table reads
- Publish completed shows and accompanying metadata and web content
You will need to have:
- A minimum of 3 years of experience in audio editing or production
- Experience in digital storytelling with an emphasis on podcasts
- Experience with Adobe Audition or ProTools to edit segments and create podcasts
- A drive to help elevate and expand Bloomberg’s podcast ambitions
- Fluency in both spoken and written English
We’d also like to see:
- Self-starting individual as the role will be a stand-alone in Asia
- A keen interest in Bloomberg’s globe-spanning journalism
To apply, go here.
Chris RoushChris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.