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COPY EDITOR,WBUR Business Partnerships

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Boston University
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BOSTON, Massachusetts, United States

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COPY EDITOR,WBUR Business Partnerships

Tracking Code3097 Job Description

The Copy Editor is responsible for approving, editing, voicing and recording all local and national underwriting announcements for broadcast, streaming and podcasting on WBUR. The Copy Editor works in tandem with the other Copy Editor and with WBURs Underwriting Department. The Copy Editor ensures that all copy submitted for approval provides sponsors timely, grammatical, clear and professional on-air messages within the limits of a 10-, 15-. 20- or 30-second timeframe. This position works directly with WBURs Traffic Manager to coordinate necessary scheduling or other changes of underwriting announcements. Additionally, the Copy Editor communicates with numerous producers and technicians about all national programs and podcasts produced by WBUR.

Essential Functions:

  • Voice and record WBUR local and national underwriting announcements into AudioVault digital recording system, ensuring that each message is professional, accurate and in the correct place. There are between 150 and 300 such announcements each day, seven days a week
  • Review and approve underwriting scripts, helping to ensure the best possible client message within strict time limits; work directly with WBURs Underwriting department on any necessary revisions. Be fluent with foreign and technical terms and pronunciations and possess a keen eye for detail and discrepancies
  • Record and edit fixed-length of national funders for Here & Now, and On Point. Record, edit, and email audio (mp3, WAV files, etc.) files for potential and current WBUR Underwriting clients. Record, edit and email podcast underwriter spots
  • Find discrepancies, and work directly with WBURs Traffic Manager to coordinate necessary scheduling or wording changes of underwriting announcements and possible industry conflicts. Check on announcements that appear erroneous and report or correct them
  • Assist in the training of fill-in announcers, including the use of AudioVault, copy timing, email systems, and creating MP3 and Wave files
  • Other duties as assigned, including participation in station fundraisers (3x/yr) and participation in station promotional events (1x/mo)
Required Skills
  • Bachelor's degree or relevant experience required
  • At least three years of related work experience required

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

Job Location BOSTON, Massachusetts, United StatesPosition TypePart-Time

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What compelled the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to award Boston University a grant to fight newborn mortality in Zambia? Why did Martin Luther King, Jr. adopt BU as a place where he could hone his message of justice and equality? And what is the catalyst that prompts 32,557 students from 135 countries to call BU their home every semester? It’s in our DNA: an inherent desire in each of our students, faculty, and staff to vigorously and dauntlessly pursue knowledge—and embrace the unlimited possibilities that come with it.

A Community Unlike Any Other

As you can see below, it takes people, ideas, and a little luck (Boston, you’re our town) to make BU what it is today: one of the most dynamic universities in the world.

Celebrated thinkers: On any given day, students will find themselves mesmerized by Nobel Prize winners, a poet laureate, and the first biomedical engineer ever to receive a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award,” among others.

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