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.

• Hybrid: This position has the opportunity to be hybrid. At times, your position may require a flexible schedule that could include some weekend and evening work. This will be part time flex with a target of 16 hours per week.
• Health and Well Being Benefits including Gender Affirming Healthcare
• Paid Time Off, Holidays & Intersession
• Tuition Remission and Professional Development through Boston University
• This role is covered under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with SAG-AFTRA and comes with a minimum pay rate of $35.00 per hour, and can go up based on experience and internal equity.

The Opportunity and Who You’ll Work With:

Cognoscenti is WBUR’s ideas and opinion vertical, and celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2022. Cognoscenti has published more than 1200 authors and works to represent new and emerging voices.

As the Associate Producer, Cognoscenti, WBUR’s ideas and opinion vertical, yours is a key editorial role in the WBUR newsroom, working closely with our Senior Editor, Cognoscenti and Editors, Cognoscenti to produce and edit essays, commentaries and other opinion content. You may commission contributions and edit essays, which includes digital production such as writing headlines, photo processing, and publishing.

You will also collaborate closely with the Cognoscenti team to develop opinion content across a myriad of platforms, including broadcast and digital audio, video, text, photography; socialmedia and newsletters. You should be collaborative and able to work across subject-matter teams.

Required Skills

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent/relevant experience
• 3-5 years of related experience in journalism

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).

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.

Please note all newly hired staff and faculty will need to be in compliance with Boston University’s COVID-19 Vaccination and Booster Requirement within 30 days of date of hire. You must upload your vaccine documentation or request a medical or religious exemption (instructions). For further information on the University’s response to COVID-19, please visit the COVID-19 Resources site.

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.

Required Experience