The Wall Street Journal is seeking a supervising producer/editor to join its growing audio team. This editorial role requires excellent journalistic instincts, production and logistical knowhow, and team-management skills. You are an editorial leader with a proactive and entrepreneurial spirit — someone who has a start-up mentality, likes to innovate and iterate, and has a proven track record managing daily and weekly production in a matrixed, global news organization.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Working with the executive producer and senior supervising producer to manage a small group of audio producers to produce daily, weekly and feature podcasts
- Proposing new and original ideas for timely and relevant programming on a regular basis
- Inspiring a team to work creatively despite tight deadline pressure
- Coordinating with platforms and vendors, proactively taking all necessary steps to ensure timely and uninterrupted distribution of audio content
- Partnering with technical operations team to ensure audio equipment, studios and facilities are functioning and up to date
- Researching, writing and producing coverage, as necessary
- Providing clear and productive notes on scripts and programs in production
- Ensuring that all journalistic and legal standards are followed at all times
- Ability to work late hours and weekends as news developments and time zone considerations may warrant
- Completing additional duties as assigned
Key candidate requirements:
- At least five years’ experience working in a non-fiction audio environment, producing original audio content and overseeing a small team
- Deep understanding of current business and markets trends, domestic and international news, pop culture, tech and politics
- Demonstrated experience producing compelling programs under tight deadline constraints
- Working knowledge of a DAW (ProTools or Adobe Audition)
- Full knowledge of and experience with distribution and ad-serving providers
- Clear communicator with exceptional written and collaboration skills
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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.