Producer – Question Everything Podcast
Join the team of Question Everything, a weekly investigative podcast into how the truth gets buried, distorted, and denied — and the ways people are fighting to make it matter again. Hosted by Brian Reed (S-Town, The Trojan Horse Affair, This American Life) and Executive Produced by Robyn Semien (This American Life), this co-production of Placement Theory and KCRW has won a Webby Award and an Ambie Award for Best Reporting. We’re hiring a producer to join our small, ambitious, creative team — a journalist who can independently and confidently report, produce, and write narrative stories.
Key Responsibilities
- Independently report and produce your own stories and segments for the show: pitch, research, chase and book interviewees, conduct interviews, structure stories, cut tape, write scripts, execute changes through rigorous editing and fact-checking
- Serve as lead producer on stories reported by Brian, outside contributors, or other staff, owning all stages of production from idea to publication
- Assess the strength of potential interviewees in pre-interviews and determine when to kill a story
- Read deeply and cultivate sources on beats relevant to the show such as media, tech, AI, politics, and free speech
- Help sustain and evolve Question Everything through idea generation and collaboration
Required Qualifications
- Strong reporting track record in narrative audio
- Experience covering some combination of media, tech, law, and politics
- Ability to independently report and produce narrative stories with confidence
- Sharp editorial judgment, collaboration skills, curiosity, resilience, and inventiveness
- Ability to juggle multiple stories and adapt when things change fast
- Strong research, interviewing, and storytelling capabilities
Our office is based in Brooklyn, NY, but we accept remote applicants. We’re committed to building a more diverse and inclusive newsroom. If you don’t check every box on the job description, we still want to hear from you.