Position Summary:
Bloomberg is looking for a driven and creative podcast producer to join our team and help grow our award-winning slate of narrative and interview podcasts. The producer will lead one existing weekly interview podcast as well as one to two limited-run narrative miniseries per year. In this role, you would work in collaboration with our audio team and alongside reporters and editors in Bloomberg”s wider newsroom. You would have a hand in all aspects of production, from recording and booking interviews to pitching episode ideas and scripting, to audio editing.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contribute to team meetings and provide peer feedback in edits and table reads
- Embark on field recordings that produce broadcast-quality audio whenever possible
- Edit in Adobe Audition
- Edit and refine outlines, scripts and long-range story arcs for narrative shows
- Work with our journalists to develop ambitious show ideas and translate them to an audio format
- Publish completed shows and accompanying metadata and web content
- Handle pre- and post-production, including engineering and recording hosts and guests from remote locations.
Required Education & Experience:
- Comfort with Adobe Audition (familiarity with other audio editing software, like ProTools, is a plus).
- Three to five years of experience in audio editing or production
- An enthusiasm for digital storytelling with an emphasis on podcasts
- A drive to help elevate and expand Bloomberg’s podcast ambitions
- A keen interest in Bloomberg’s globe-spanning journalism