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Coordinating Producer, WSJ Podcasts - NY

Employer
Dow Jones
Location
New York
Salary
$DoE
Closing date
27 Nov 2019

Job Details

The Wall Street Journal seeks a creative and collaborative coordinating producer to join our growing audio team.

This role is for a coordinator with strong news judgment and comfort with tight deadlines to support our new daily podcast, The Journal, and work across our existing collection of business news and tech podcasts and briefings, as needed.

We're looking for someone enthusiastic about WSJ reporting and excited about storytelling and explanatory podcasts.

Reporting to the deputy head of audio, the ideal candidate knows how to navigate a global newsroom and is eager to work on a dynamic daily show, as well as pitch in on other podcasts.

While the role is set for normal work hours, it also requires flexibility and openness to weekend, holiday and after-hours work.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE

  • Daily fact-checking of scripts and episodes in production
  • Coordinating with the digital newsroom to stay on top of publishing dates and deadlines
  • Collaborating with reporters and editors to surface potential episode ideas
  • Working with standards and legal departments to ensure all journalistic and legal standards are followed at all times
  • Identifying and sourcing audio for use in stories
  • Booking interviews with both outside sources and newsroom staff
  • Assisting with original reporting for audio


WHAT YOU HAVE

  • 4+ years of newsroom and journalism experience, preferably at a global news organization
  • A passion for business, markets, and economic stories
  • Strong judgment identifying smart business angles in stories
  • Experience producing audio and other multimedia skills are a plus
  • Comfort balancing multiple projects and tasks
  • Detail-oriented to quickly fact-check copy
  • Ability to make decisions under pressure and meet deadlines
  • Flexibility in changing and handing off tasks


The Wall Street Journal offers a range of daily and weekly podcasts, covering business and markets, economics, technology and science.

Our new daily podcast, The Journal, is a partnership with Gimlet that show takes listeners behind the biggest business news stories. We explain how business drives the day's headlines, and how The Wall Street Journal's deeply reported stories shape the landscape.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets.

Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process.

If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, please reach out to us at TalentResourceTeam@dowjones.com. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line.

About Us

The Wall Street Journal is a global news organization that provides leading news, information, commentary and analysis. The Wall Street Journal engages readers across print, digital, mobile, social, and video.

Building on its heritage as the preeminent source of global business and financial news, the Journal includes coverage of U.S. and world news, politics, arts, culture, lifestyle, sports, and health. It holds 38 Pulitzer Prizes for outstanding journalism.

The Wall Street Journal is published by Dow Jones, a division of News Corp (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

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We break stories, influence ideas, and advance business intelligence and cultural interest.

We expose the events that turn markets, the digital breakthroughs that transform art, the demand that drives invention, as well as the political and societal passing moments and lasting consequences.

We are the people of Dow Jones. From different fields, backgrounds and viewpoints we invite you to join us.

Examine the world and bring it to others.

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