Please excuse the slap, dash, cut & paste, but I wanted to get this up quickly. If you haven't been following WLRN's journalistic rise, take note: this is a station to watch. 10 years ago when I was working in Florida the station had barely a news presence. Today they're doing some bang up investigative reporting (see their stories on Charter Schools and their fabulous series Neglected to Death).
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Job Title: Senior Editor, News, WLRN-Miami Herald News
To apply:
Application should include (1) a cover letter, (2) a resume or CV, (3) work samples and (4) at least three references that have worked closely with you and can speak of your qualifications for the position. Please email application to WLRNnews@gmail.com. Applications will be accepted through April 30, 2012.
Position Summary:
The Senior Editor for News is one of three WLRN Senior Editors who with the News Director constitute the News Department’s Leadership Team. The News Director reports directly to WLRN’s General Manager. The WLRN news department has a nine-year editorial partnership with the Miami Herald and is located inside the Miami Herald newsroom. The Senior Editors will manage their assigned areas of responsibility; help craft and manage overall News Department direction and strategy across all of our platforms; apply high ethical, journalism and radio standards consistent with NPR’s new ethics code; supervise content consistent with the News Department’s approach to subject-area verticals (beats), sense of place programming and user interactivity; participate in news events; act as working managers and pitch in on daily production needs; and supervise and evaluate staff assigned to them. As a team, the Senior Editors will meet regularly to review all assignments, set priorities for the coming week and do longer-range planning. In the absence of one of the other Senior Editors or the News Director, the Senior Editor will be called upon to oversee other areas of news across all of our platforms and/or function as acting News Director. The Senior Editors will rotate as the on-duty manager during nights and weekends.
Senior Editor, News: Directs, reviews and edits work of assigned staff, including the anchors, producers and beat reporters. The primary goal and focus of the Senior Editor for News is to increase the value and impact of WLRN’s news coverage by focusing our reporting resources on the coverage of fewer subjects in greater depth. This individual will oversee WLRN’s news coverage across all of our platforms, including 16 daily newscasts and signature segments, mobilizing staff resources and working in collaboration with the Miami Herald newsroom to maximize the timely delivery of key information to our digital and broadcast audiences around defined subject-area verticals. This position has primary responsibility for monitoring the breaking- and hard-news flow to ensure timely coverage. This editor will manage WLRN’s relationship with the Florida News Exchange, collaborate with newsrooms across the state and oversee daily coverage from correspondents in Washington, D.C., Tallahassee, Palm Beach County and Broward County.
Position Responsibility:
General duties:
• Demonstrates interest in and knowledge of the major issues facing South Florida. Engages in continual self-education and education of the staff.
• Drive daily coverage plan for 16 daily newscasts, and suggest continual ways to refine and improve our core broadcast news product.
• Ensure a daily flow of fresh breaking and hard-news content across all of our platforms.
• Oversees coverage of breaking news of importance to our listeners in close collaboration with the Miami Herald’s breaking news team.
• Liaison with the Miami Herald’s Continuous News Desk.
• Train Miami Herald reporters in audio recording, writing and production to produce daily spot stories.
• Tap into the full potential of the Miami Herald news partnership to shepherd news stories across multiple platforms.
• Coach reporters to come up with fresh, forward-looking news approaches that emphasize the news department’s core values of Sense of Place and Audience Interactivity. Engage the audience regularly in coverage of the community using the Public Insight Network.
• Assists in recruiting and hiring best candidates for open positions. Keeps current with talent for such purposes.
• Establish a story planning and communications process. Attend and participate in Miami Herald news meetings, weekly enterprise planning meetings; run daily radio standup meetings; establish and run weekly news planning meetings and listening sessions with the reporting staff. Coordinate coverage plan and resource sharing with News Director and other Senior Editors to reflect evolving news assignments and opportunities.
• Put an emphasis on coverage of ethnic and racial diversity and full regional geographic coverage, in particular stories in Palm Beach and Broward counties.
• Oversee the workflow from local freelancers as well as correspondents and contributors in Tallahassee, Broward County, Palm Beach County and Washington DC.
• Engage the audience regularly using the Public Insight Network, though daily queries and questions of the day.
• Work with the News Director and other Senior Editors to ensure 100 percent participation of the news staff in the creation of digital content.
• Work with the WLRN communications, programming and membership staff to ensure proper promoting of high-impact coverage.
• Fill-in for other Senior Editors, News Director, or other staff as needed.
• Create and work under an approved annual work plan, with goals, objectives and measureable metrics.
• Performs all administrative duties as assigned, including time sheet monitoring and approval, vacation scheduling and payment of freelancers.
• Performs technical liaison as needed for the news staff with Miami Herald IT and WLRN engineering.
• Help organize, attend and participate in public events and community outreach as a representative of the station. Maintain an active social media presence on Facebook and Twitter, as well as other platforms yet to be identified.
• Rotates with other senior editors as on-duty manager for the news department during nights and weekends.
• Other tasks as assigned.
Expectations:
• The News Editor will often be called on in the early morning and weekends to coordinate breaking news coverage, and in the evenings and weekends to edit spot stories.
• As a regular part of his or her duties, the Newscast Editor will be expected to produce spot news coverage of breaking stories across all of our platforms. Producing these stories will relieve pressure on the staff due to periodic staffing shortages. This is an opportunity to lead by example.
Required Skills and Experience:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 4 years directly related experience, 3 years reporting experience.
• Excellent knowledge of and broad experience in broadcast journalism, including reporting, researching, writing, interviewing, and editing.
• Excellent ability to create story ideas, report, edit and produce program elements.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders and partners to find win-win situations.
• Ability to successfully meet deadlines, handle multiple responsibilities under pressure and often independently outside of regular business hours.
• Good multi-tasking abilities.
• Strong critical judgment skills and the ability to make decisions regarding credibility, personality and value of material to program.
• Strong news judgment and familiarity with public radio news and values.
• Ability to edit material of remote producers over the phone.
• Strong research skills.
• Ability to work with little or no supervision.
• Superior communication skills.
• Ability to work quickly and effectively with reporters and freelancers.
• Ability and willingness to train/mentor/coach on a daily basis staff, freelancers and Miami Herald contributors in best news coverage practices across all of our platforms.
• Avid consumer of WLRN news content across all of our platforms.
• Ability to operate remote and on-site recording equipment, edit audio and prepare all elements of program in ready-for-broadcast form.
• Ability to operate digital computer equipment and software for digital presentation.
• Consistent and reliable attendance is an essential component of the job.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
• Strong background in daily journalism and breaking-news coverage.
• Familiarity with digital design and presentation desired.
Reporting To This Position:
• Reporters, Producers, Anchors as assigned.
Physical Demands and Working Conditions:
• Must be able to perform the essential duties of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.
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Job Title: Senior Editor, Enterprise, WLRN-Miami Herald News
To apply:
Application should include (1) a cover letter, (2) a resume or CV, (3) work samples and (4) at least three references that have worked closely with you and can speak of your qualifications for the position. Please email application to WLRNnews@gmail.com. Applications will be accepted through April 30, 2012.
Position Summary:
The Senior Editor for Enterprise is one of three WLRN Senior Editors who with the News Director constitute the News Department’s Leadership Team. The News Director reports directly to WLRN’s General Manager. The WLRN news department has a nine-year editorial partnership with the Miami Herald and is located inside the Miami Herald newsroom. The Senior Editors will manage their assigned areas of responsibility; help craft and manage overall News Department direction and strategy across all of our platforms; apply high ethical, journalism and radio standards consistent with NPR’s new ethics code; supervise content consistent with the News Department’s approach to subject-area verticals (beats), sense of place programming and user interactivity; participate in news events; act as working managers and pitch in on daily production needs; and supervise and evaluate staff assigned to them. As a team, the Senior Editors will meet regularly to review all assignments, set priorities for the coming week and do longer-range planning. In the absence of one of the other Senior Editors or the News Director, the Senior Editor will be called upon to oversee other areas of news across all of our platforms and/or function as acting News Director. The Senior Editors will rotate as the on-duty manager during nights and weekends.
Senior Editor, Enterprise: Directs, reviews and edits work of assigned staff, including anchors, producers and beat reporters. The primary goal and focus of the Senior Editor for Enterprise will be to develop in-depth, investigative and enterprise reporting across all of our platforms and to increase the impact and appeal of our reporting. This individual will oversee the creation of some signature programming and subject-area verticals; manage integration of enterprise and feature production into the daily workflow of the news department; and develop and cross-train the staff in best practices to produce in-depth enterprise content. This individual will also oversee non-news content such as audience callouts, arts contests, fiction, poetry, personal essays, commentaries and audio postcards. Our goal is to create more investigative stories, signature segments and one-of-a-kind programming that capture significant public attention. In the future, staff in this area may include a new senior reporting position of correspondent, specializing in major high-impact projects.
Position Responsibility:
• Demonstrates interest in and knowledge of the major issues facing South Florida. Engages in continual self-education and education of the staff.
• Oversee creation and production of one daily high-impact short depth or feature story for broadcast at peak drive times.
• Act as lead editor of most high-impact features, signature segments, subject-area verticals, and other assigned reporting and production in coordination with the reporting staff and News Director.
• Train and critique the work of radio and Miami Herald reporters and producers on a regular basis.
• Tap into the full potential of the Miami Herald news partnership to shepherd enterprise stories across multiple platforms.
• Establish a story planning and communications process. Attend and participate in Miami Herald enterprise meetings, daily radio standup meetings; establish and run weekly enterprise planning meetings and listening sessions with the reporting staff. Coordinate coverage plan and resource sharing with News Director and other Senior Editors to reflect evolving enterprise assignments and opportunities.
• Coach reporters to come up with fresh, forward-looking news approaches that emphasize the news department’s core values of Sense of Place and Audience Interactivity. Engage the audience regularly in coverage of the community using the Public Insight Network.
• Assists in recruiting and hiring best candidates for open positions. Keeps current with talent for such purposes.
• Put an emphasis on coverage of ethnic and racial diversity and full regional geographic coverage, in particular stories in Palm Beach and Broward counties.
• Oversee the workflow of enterprise features from local freelancers as well as correspondents and contributors in Tallahassee, Broward County, Palm Beach County and Washington DC.
• Work with the News Director and other Senior Editors to ensure 100 percent participation of the news staff in the creation of digital content.
• Fill-in for other Senior Editors, News Director, or other staff as needed.
• Create and work under an approved annual work plan, with goals, objectives and measureable metrics.
• Performs all administrative duties as assigned, including time sheet monitoring and approval, vacation scheduling and payment of freelancers.
• Performs technical liaison as needed for the staff, with Miami Herald IT and WLRN engineering.
• Help organize, attend and participate in public events and community outreach as a representative of the station. Maintain an active social media presence on Facebook and Twitter, as well as other platforms yet to be identified.
• Rotates with other senior editors as on-duty manager for the news department during nights and weekends.
• Other tasks as assigned.
Expectations:
• The Enterprise Editor is a coaching/training/mentoring role. He or she is expected to be a leader in the newsroom for creative, in-depth, enterprise storytelling that evokes a “Sense of Place” and engages the audience and taps into the community’s insight.
• The Enterprise Editor is encouraged to produce his or her own news and enterprise coverage, but not at the expense of duties outlined above.
Required Skills and Experience:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 4 years directly related experience, 3 years reporting experience
• Excellent knowledge of and broad experience in broadcast journalism, including reporting, researching, writing, interviewing, and editing.
• Excellent ability to create story ideas, report, edit and produce program elements.
• Extensive experience in public radio audio production and sound mixing.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders and partners to find win-win situations.
• Ability to successfully meet deadlines, handle multiple responsibilities under pressure and often independently outside of regular business hours.
• Good multi-tasking abilities.
• Strong critical judgment skills and the ability to make decisions regarding credibility, personality and value of material to program.
• Strong storytelling skills and familiarity with public radio news and values.
• Ability to edit material of remote producers over the phone.
• Strong research skills.
• Ability to work with little or no supervision.
• Superior communication skills.
• Ability to work quickly and effectively with reporters and freelancers.
• Ability and willingness to train/mentor/coach on a daily basis staff, freelancers and Miami Herald contributors in best enterprise coverage practices across all of our platforms.
• Avid consumer of WLRN news content across all of our platforms.
• Ability to operate remote and on-site recording equipment, edit audio and prepare all elements of program in ready-for-broadcast form.
• Ability to operate digital computer equipment and software for digital presentation.
• Consistent and reliable attendance is an essential component of the job.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
• Strong background in enterprise journalism and high-impact feature storytelling.
• Familiarity with digital design and presentation desired.
Reporting To This Position:
• Reporters, Producers, Anchors as assigned.
Physical Demands and Working Conditions:
• Must be able to perform the essential duties of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.
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Job Title: Senior Editor, Digital Media, WLRN-Miami Herald News
To apply:
Application should include (1) a cover letter, (2) a resume or CV, (3) work samples and (4) at least three references that have worked closely with you and can speak of your qualifications for the position. Please email application to WLRNnews@gmail.com. Applications will be accepted through April 30, 2012.
Position Summary:
The Senior Editor for Digital Media is one of three WLRN Senior Editors who with the News Director constitute the News Department’s Leadership Team. The News Director reports directly to WLRN’s General Manager. The WLRN news department has a nine-year editorial partnership with the Miami Herald and is located inside the Miami Herald newsroom. The Senior Editors will manage their assigned areas of responsibility; help craft and manage overall News Department direction and strategy across all of our platforms; apply high ethical, journalism and radio standards consistent with NPR’s new ethics code; supervise content consistent with the News Department’s approach to subject-area verticals (beats), sense of place programming and user interactivity; participate in news events; act as working managers and pitch in on daily production needs; and supervise and evaluate staff assigned to them. As a team, the Senior Editors will meet regularly to review all assignments, set priorities for the coming week and do longer-range planning. In the absence of one of the other Senior Editors or the News Director, the Senior Editor will be called upon to oversee other areas of news across all of our platforms and/or function as acting News Director. The Senior Editors will rotate as the on-duty manager during nights and weekends.
The Senior Editor, Digital Media: Directs, reviews and edits work of assigned staff, including WLRN’s social media editor and Public Insight Network analyst. The primary goal and focus of the Senior Editor for Digital Media will be to lead the news team in exponentially growing WLRN’s digital audience. In the first phase of the job, this individual will launch and oversee a series of new WLRN digital properties, including launching a news website and subject-area blogs, a refined social media architecture and new mobile products, powered by NPR Digital Services technology and in editorial collaboration with the Miami Herald. In the second phase of the job, this individual will be at the center of a dynamic, digital-first newsroom, working closely with the WLRN News staff and the Miami Herald newsroom to create content across all of our platforms around breaking news, feature stories and audience callouts. In order to fulfill its mission to grow the digital audience, it is projected that this unit will grow in the future, and the Senior Editor for Digital Media would oversee and direct that growth.
Position Responsibility:
• Demonstrates interest in and knowledge of the major issues facing South Florida. Engages in continual self-education and education of the staff.
• Responsible for crafting, leading and implementing WLRN-Miami Herald News’s digital initiatives, including the development of new sources of original content across all platforms (i.e. will “own” the news department’s digital assets).
• Will work with the digital staff of the Miami Herald and NPR Digital Services to maximize those partnerships in the digital space.
• Will act as a liaison with the communications department at WLRN and membership department of the Friends of WLRN to coordinate outreach and promotion of news products on their websites, newsletters and events.
• Build WLRN’s digital and social media audience to broaden station’s engagement with users and generate content.
• Work with News Director to lead WLRN’s multi-platform strategy and guide station digital decision-making.
• Train and coach WLRN-Miami Herald News staff and key freelancers in new digital tools and digital best practices.
• Assists in recruiting and hiring best candidates for open positions. Keeps current with talent for such purposes.
• Develop awareness in reporters and producers of the importance of and opportunity for digital display of their stories, to ensure high-profile treatment of WLRN content on all digital platforms.
• Establish a story planning and communications process. Attend and participate in Miami Herald digital meetings, daily radio standup meetings; help lead weekly editorial meetings and critique sessions with the news staff. Coordinate coverage plan and resource sharing with News Director and other Senior Editors to reflect evolving digital assignments and opportunities.
• Responsible for the development and growth of revenue associated with WLRN’s digital assets by coordinating underwriting, development and marketing initiatives.
• Oversee the technical development and launch of new digital news platforms, including a new news website, blogs, and mobile products, as well as content displayed on Miami Herald sites.
• Oversee WLRN’s social media architecture, strategy and staff.
• Work with the News Director and other Senior Editors to ensure 100 percent participation of the news staff in the creation of digital content.
• Represent WLRN as lead in all NPR digital initiatives.
• Initiate and manage all digital partnerships and relationships that strengthen WLRN’s digital presence.
• Identify and secure funding that strengthens WLRN’s digital efforts.
• Create and work under an approved annual work plan, with goals, objectives and measureable metrics.
• Assists in recruiting and hiring best candidates for open positions. Keeps current with talent for such purposes.
• Put an emphasis on coverage of ethnic and racial diversity and full regional geographic coverage, in particular stories in Palm Beach and Broward counties.
• Fill-in for other Senior Editors, News Director, or other staff as needed.
• Performs all administrative duties as assigned, including time sheet monitoring and approval. Vacation scheduling and payment of freelancers.
• Performs technical liaison as needed for the staff, with Miami Herald IT and WLRN engineering.
• Help organize, attend and participate in public events and community outreach as a representative of the station. Maintain an active social media presence on Facebook and Twitter, as well as other platforms yet to be identified.
• Rotates with other senior editors as on-duty manager for the news department during nights and weekends.
• All other duties as assigned.
Expectations:
• The Senior Editor for Digital Media combines a coaching/training/mentoring role with a visionary approach to digital reporting and storytelling. He or she is expected to be a leader in the newsroom for creative, in-depth, digital storytelling that evokes a “Sense of Place” and engages the audience and taps into the community’s insight.
• As a regular part of his or her duties, the Senior Editor for Digital Media will be expected to produce news coverage across all of our digital platforms. This will relieve pressure on the staff due to periodic staffing shortages. This is an opportunity to lead by example.
Required Skills and Experience:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 4 years directly related digital journalism experience.
• Knowledge of and experience in digital journalism, including reporting, researching, writing, interviewing, and editing.
• Large social media networks and a fluency in emerging digital technologies and platforms.
• Passionate advocate for the digital transformation of public media and in the potential for rapid growth in public radio’s digital audience.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders and partners to find win-win situations.
• Established track record as a digital innovator and entrepreneur.
• Ability to successfully meet deadlines, handle multiple responsibilities under pressure, independently and outside of regular business hours.
• Good multi-tasking abilities.
• Strong critical judgment skills and the ability to make decisions regarding credibility, personality and value of material to program.
• Strong understanding of audience engagement and social media and familiarity with public radio news and values.
• Strong research skills.
• Ability to work with little or no supervision.
• Superior communication skills.
• Ability to work quickly and effectively with reporters and freelancers.
• Ability and willingness to train/mentor/coach on a daily basis staff, freelancers and Miami Herald contributors in best digital practices.
• Avid consumer of WLRN news content across all of our platforms.
• Ability to operate remote and on-site recording equipment, edit audio and prepare all elements of program in ready-for-broadcast form.
• Ability to operate digital computer equipment and software for digital presentation.
• Consistent and reliable attendance is an essential component of the job.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
• Strong background in digital design and presentation.
• Ability to create story ideas, report, edit and produce program elements.
Reporting To This Position:
• Social Media editor, Public Insight Network analyst, Reporters, Producers, Anchors as assigned.
Physical Demands and Working Conditions:
• Must be able to perform the essential duties of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.
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