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Job Description

About the Role

New York Times Audio is hiring an Editor for our weekly tech show, Hard Fork, hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton. We’re looking for someone with experience covering tech and overseeing and growing conversational shows. You will work closely with the hosts, generating ideas for coverage and guests, and managing the production team. You are a curious, creative thinker who thrives in a collaborative, news- and deadline-driven environment. You should have experience working in video production or collaborating with video production teams, as well.

This is a hybrid position based either in New York City or San Francisco and includes regular attendance in the office each week per your departmental guidance.

Responsibilities:

1. Work with the Hosts and Executive Producer to set editorial agenda, guide thinking and discussion around coverage planning, set goals for the show, including video strategy.
2. Collaborate with production teams to successfully cast, pre-interview and book guests, edit episodes for audio and video (including full YouTube episodes and short form social videos), with an eye toward story selection, framing and structure, collaborate with the production and composer teams to ensure music library and use of tape elevates each episode.
3. Collaborate with podcast video team members to develop workflows across both mediums, collaborate with the audience team on understanding and growing our audience.
4. Identify and cultivate relationships with Times journalists on the tech desk.
5. You will report to the Executive Producer and manage a team of producers, guiding and supporting their growth, assessing their performance and providing feedback.
6. Help guide the prep process, edit preps and scripts in collaboration with host and producers. Drive the production of the episode forward, setting deadlines and directing and delegating workload, while communicating with team leadership, perform final edit of the episodes, anticipate challenges in stories/episodes and proactively solve them.
7. Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
8. Create an environment where people can successfully engage in rigorous collaborative work.

Basic Qualifications:

1. 7+ years experience in audio, video production and editing.
2. Experience in tech coverage and conversational/chat formats.
3. Highly skilled at every aspect of editing — from structuring an episode, pacing and line editing.
4. Experience in a weekly publishing cadence.
5. Proven ability to foster an inclusive, diverse and innovative environment.
6. Experience managing teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge of YouTube video strategy preferred.

The annual base pay range for this role is between $150,000.00 and $175,000.00.

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

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