Podcast Producer

Job Description

The Times and The Sunday Times represent a combined 400 years of covering news and providing comment and analysis on the UK and the world. We are authoritative, credible, responsible, trusted and a part of the nation’s cultural heritage.

As a Podcast Producer you’ll be responsible for pitching, shaping and delivering shows with the same scope, ambition and rigorous standards as the other journalism produced by The Times and The Sunday Times.

Working primarily on our flagship news show, The Story, this will involve cooperating with reporters, correspondents and section editors on both individual episodes and, potentially, multi-part series. You’ll be part of a small, supportive and successful team working sometimes unpredictable hours and under tight deadlines to meet the demands of that day’s story. At times, you may work on other of our slate of shows.

You’ll have proven editorial judgement, experience of audio / multi-platform production, be a team player and have a desire to create innovative podcast content that grabs its audience’s attention by examining major stories in a new light.

• Work with your Executive Producer and Senior Producers to execute the show’s strategy across seven days and multiple formats.
• Identify growth opportunities across platforms, formats, and audiences, aiming to surprise our existing audience and appeal to new audiences.
• Collaborate with other editorial, platform and marketing teams to align audience goals with broader brand objectives.
• Work creatively to produce podcast content for daily, weekly and serialized publication.
• Maintain the highest editorial and production standards, including liaison with our legal and compliance teams.
• Liaise with those teams working elsewhere within the papers and on other of our podcasts.
• Be part of consequential and complex editorial decision-making processes, often under pressure of a deadline and escalating these when necessary.
• Be part of the team’s continued evolution, including working on new formats, new ways to telling stories, bonus and afternoon editions and field production / reporting.
• Be committed to realising the best quality podcast content not not just nationally but internationally.
• Work independently to manage your own work and generate a flow of fresh ideas for both new subjects and the treatment of subjects as required.

• Experience of daily news, investigative and/or current affairs reporting, ideally within a newspaper or media organisation.
• Understanding of podcast research, production and storytelling, including narrative and non-narrative models.
• Deep experience of podcast or audio production, including the use of Descript, Adobe Audition and ideally Adobe Premiere.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and translate it into new approaches to content making.
• Experience of working well under pressure and the ability to constantly adapt in a changing work environment and/or demands of that day’s story.
• Experience of working to strict editorial standards and legal requirements within a media environment.

One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our news brands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month.

Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every…