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Job Description

The New York Times Audio team is building on the success and journalism of “The Daily” to bring more of our audio reporting to our audiences everyday. The Host will play a leading role in “The Headlines,” a daily morning news show for Times subscribers. You’ll be part of a team using the journalistic rigor and power of The Times’ unique reporting to deliver the most important stories of the moment through distinct writing and a sound-rich audio experience.

The Host must have excellent news judgment and be skilled in writing for audio with an ear for clarity and logical sequencing of ideas. This role requires you to know how tape can elevate a story, and how to weave narration deftly around it. You should have experience in, and love, working on daily news within a newsroom setting on tight and ever-changing deadlines. And you should be skilled in extracting analysis of news events from Times reporters during recordings.

Responsibilities include:

• Respond to breaking and evolving news with urgency and accuracy

• Work in collaboration with the show’s Executive Producer and team to determine the day’s editorial agenda and story selection.

• Write, voice and edit scripts consistent with New York Times style – and as you will be our listeners’ daily companion, you will host the show with warmth, wit and flair

• Book and interview reporters, eliciting tape that conveys their expertise,analysis and personality

• Ensure stories have logical sequencing and structure

• Apply Times editorial standards of accuracy, fairness, and independence

• Identify the best tape for stories

• Anticipate challenges in stories and proactively solve for them as well as identify creative solutions when a story/the writing isn’t working.

• Be fluent in cutting tape with audio editing software, preferably Pro Tools, and be ready to assemble the show as needed in partnership with the show's producer

• Fill in as editor when needed

• Provide input into staffing decisions and assessing performance/providing feedback to staff.

• Exercise calm under extreme pressure.

• Invite feedback and respond to it with curiosity and flexibility, incorporating editorial notes quickly, working cooperatively and coming up with creative solutions when disagreements arise.

• Deliver feedback with care and precision.

Our ideal candidate:

• Significant experience working in daily audio news as an on-air host and/or editor

• Experience in live news

• Sound news judgment

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Experience using audio editing software, familiarity with Pro tools an advantage

• Well-developed and adaptive cultural competence and emotional intelligence

• Experience working in a deadline-driven environment

• Believes in The New York Times’ mission of independence and is dedicated to being a part of our innovation and growth

• Able to uphold the editorial standards of The Times

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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