Job Description
Who We Are & What We Can Offer You:
WBUR is Boston’s NPR and a public media leader, producing exceptional journalism on-air, online, on demand and in real life. Our mission is to provide high-quality journalism and enriching experiences that foster understanding, connection and community for an expanding circle of people. WBUR is a member-supported nonprofit and provides its journalism to the public for free, with no paywall or subscription. Our broadcast license is held by Boston University.
Employees at WBUR are a team of professionals who value truth, diverse perspectives and candid debate, creating a culture of mutual respect, passion, and belonging.
We’ve got exciting plans to keep innovating and building WBUR for the future.
We’re growing. And you’ll grow too.
We also offer:
- Health and Well Being Benefits including Gender Affirming Healthcare
- Paid Time Off, Holidays & Intersession
- Tuition Remission and Professional Development through Boston University
The Opportunity and Who You’ll Work With:
The news anchor is an essential part of WBUR’s midday news service. It’s a big job, including both local newscasts for the Boston area as well as national newscasts for WBUR’s production of NPR’s Here and Now, which is aired by hundreds of stations around the country.
The anchor will write, edit, and deliver newscasts and continuity breaks during the midday broadcast period. They are a vital source of latest news and information and also a trusted companion. The midday anchor will also fill-in host for other WBUR programs, and will be an influential voice in WBUR’s newsroom.
You are a versatile, creative, self-motivated journalist. You’ll be able to shepherd the midday operation with calm and grace, even as news unfolds and crashes around you. You’ll make sure our local and national listeners have the news and information they need to get through the day, while also being a steady presence behind the microphone. You are relied upon to uphold WBUR’s journalistic and ethical standards, including (and critically) during breaking news cycles. Your news judgment will be impeccable, and you’ll give listeners the news they need to know in a way they can easily understand.
And, working in an ambitious, supportive newsroom, you’ll partner with WBUR editorial and production teams including journalists, producers, editors, and audio engineering professionals.
This position is in the SAG-AFTRA Bargaining Unit, and carries a minimum salary of $78,413.00 and goes up from there based on experience and internal equity.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Producing and executing midday local news headline breaks.
- Producing and executing midday national news headlines for NPR’s Here and Now.
- Executing midday continuity breaks.
- Staying on top of the latest local and national news.
- Reporting, writing, and editing news copy.
Onsite: This position will be onsite Monday through Friday, 40 hours per week.
Required Skills
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent/relevant experience
- Minimum 5 years of related experience in media, journalism, broadcasting, and/or audio production
Capabilities and Proficiencies:
- An excitement about WBUR’s mission to provide an essential public good: high-quality local journalism and enriching experiences that foster understanding, connection and community.
- A commitment to journalism fundamentals, including accuracy, fairness, respect, honesty and independence on air and online (for more, see WBUR’s ethics guidelines).
- Strong teamwork skills, and experience collaborating with hosts and producers
- Editorial experience in a fast-paced daily newsroom environment
- An ability to adapt quickly to change
- Attention to detail, and an ability to copy edit and quality check audio
- Ability to work under pressure, meet multiple daily and long-term deadlines
- Detailed knowledge of Boston, or a demonstrated ability to get up to speed in a new city quickly.
- Must be willing to work in-office (Boston)
In an ongoing effort to enrich our organizational culture, WBUR is committed to building a staff and leadership team that reflects the diversity of our city, region and nation.
Designing an organization where everyone thrives, creating connection and community that permeates our workplace requires real change across all facets of what we do and who we are.
We must hire, support, develop, advance and retain diverse talent at all levels of the organization with a standard of inclusive excellence.
If you are excited by this opportunity and have a passion for our mission – whether you meet all or some of our criteria – we want to talk to you.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, or because of marital, parental, or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.