Description

About the Role

WAMC Northeast Public Radio is seeking a dynamic live show editor. The person in this role is responsible for shaping, refining, and delivering high-quality written and audio content across live broadcasts and digital platforms. This position combines sharp editorial judgment with realtime production support, ensuring all content is clear, accurate, engaging, and deadline ready.

The ideal candidate is an exceptional writer and editor with a deep understanding of audio storytelling, live show workflows, and digital publishing. They thrive in fast-paced environments, can turn around clean copy quickly, and ensure consistency and polish across every piece of content.

This is also a leadership role. The Senior Editor supervises junior production staff, sets the editorial standard for the team, and serves as a key editorial partner to the Executive Producer. We're looking for someone with serious live production experience, genuine curiosity about books and ideas, deep roots in or connection to this region, and the steadiness to lead a team through the pressure of daily broadcast.

Starting Salary $57,000

Requirements

• Genuine roots in or deep familiarity with the Capital Region, Hudson Valley, Adirondacks, Vermont, Connecticut, and/or the Berkshires. You don't need to have grown up here-but you need to care about this place specifically
• Exceptional composure and time management under the daily pressure of live production
• Experience booking guests and building relationships with publicists, literary agents, community organizations, and other professionals
• Commitment to telling stories from communities that public radio has historically underserved-including younger listeners, communities of color, working-class and rural voices across our coverage area
• Excellent communication skills; able to give clear, actionable feedback to staff and communicate crisply with hosts and engineers during live air
• Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Media Studies, English, or a related field-or equivalent hands-on experience. We will not penalize non-traditional paths

Experience

• 4+ years of experience producing a daily live radio show, broadcast news program, or equivalent. Public radio experience strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience supervising or mentoring junior production staff
• Genuine love of culture-and the ability to turn that enthusiasm into compelling radio
• Strong editorial judgment across both fast-turnaround news and longer-form interview formats

About the Company

WAMC is an equal-opportunity employer. It is the policy of WAMC that all employees and applicants for employment will be treated and considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliation or belief, genetic information, veteran status, familial status, domestic violence status, arrest or conviction record, or any other protected classification.