Podcast Producer

3 months ago


Mount Victoria, New Zealand Thomson Reuters Full time

Reuters is looking for an experienced **Podcast Producer **to join the team responsible for Reuters World News, our fast-growing daily show, and help shape our expansion of audio programming.

In this position, you will mine the vast reporting resources at one of the largest newsgathering organizations to deliver must-listen shows about what’s happening in the world right now. You should be an avid news consumer with excellent audio editing skills and a clear understanding of news and current affairs podcasting.

**About the Role**

As our **Podcast Producer,** you will:

- Record, edit and deliver audio content as directed by the team leader, working closely with Reuters reporters around the world and external expert contributors
- Generate ideas for buzzy and informative segments
- Write, sub and factcheck scripts
- Voice program inserts, and occasionally capture audio in the field
- Collaborate with other parts of the newsroom to help promote our podcasts
- Ensure your work is accurate, timely and impartial

**About You**

You’re a fit for **Podcast Producer** if you have:

- Experience of working on podcasts with a news or current affairs focus
- Strong audio editing skills, using software like Descript, Adobe Audition or Pro Tools
- A passion for telling news and personal stories
- The ability to remain calm under pressure and edit down episodes on deadline
- A track record of being a team player in a news production environment
- Strong time management skills to balance the needs of the daily show with longer-form storytelling
- Excellent written and spoken English

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**What's in it for you**

At Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

- ** Global Career**: As a global company, we can offer a truly international career and progression opportunities
- ** Learning & Development**: On the job learning and coaching. We also have a dedicated training team focused on the continuous development of our journalists
- ** Benefits**: We offer competitive salary packages and market leading benefits including paid volunteering days
- ** Perks**:Work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and a team who provide unmatched, award-winning coverage of the world’s most important stories.

**About Reuters**

Reuters is the world’s largest multimedia news provider. Founded in 1851, it is committed to the Trust Principles of independence, integrity and freedom from bias. With unmatched coverage in over 16 languages, and reaching billions of people worldwide every day, Reuters provides trusted intelligence that powers humans and machines to make smart decisions. It supplies business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers.

Reuters: The Real World in Real Time

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

**Accessibility**

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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