In the midst of a historic time in the media industry, Bloomberg Media is growing its global footprint and reach through new innovations from QuickTake to reinventing live events.
Bloomberg is expanding its audio offerings and looking for an experienced podcast producer to work on an ambitious daily podcast focused on the economy, the world, and enterprise business news. The Executive Producer will work on this show in collaboration with a larger audio team and alongside reporters and editors in Bloomberg’s wider newsroom. They will work under the guidance of the Head of Podcasts. This role will be project based, and there will be opportunity to work across other shows in the Bloomberg Podcast portfolio. This opening is for a producer candidate with at minimum 10+ years of experience on reported, narrative shows.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Overseeing a franchise team directing Podcast’s business news coverage daily
- Creative directing the franchise including news coverage, story selection, staffing on stories, episode format, guest selection, audio quality
- Having a pulse on the biggest stories in business news and general news on a daily basis to make the call on the biggest stories of the week
- Collaborating with the wider Bloomberg Newsroom on episode participation and story selection working closely with key newsroom stakeholders
- Generate and solicit daily story ideas in collaboration with the broader newsroom slate
- Greenlighting pitches for episodes and guesting ideas
- Managing a group of hosts, and supporting staff on how to work with the hosts editorially during an interview
- Managing producers who will produce the episodes day-to-day including overseeing and providing notes and direction on their tasks from logging tape, pulling archival, syncing, and cutting interviews, fact checking, episode assembly, and tracking
- Story editing individual episodes, while training and overseeing senior producers who can support in this capacity
- Guide and instruct sound engineering and sound design as an overall theme for the franchise in addition to specific episode needs
- Manage an ambitious production schedule across the franchise keeping show staff accountable to reporting, editing and production deadlines
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Experience working in a newsroom environment or on projects with rigorous journalistic ethics.
- Excellent news judgment
- Sharp editorial ear
- Reporting experience in addition to experience with production tasks.
- Experience with field, remote and in-studio production
- Demonstrated interest in covering business news
- Experience using Descript, Audition, Trello and Google Docs. Proficiency in editing software is required.
- Any direct experience in Sound engineering, Sound Design, and Story Editing is a plus
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.