Job Openings

As our Associate Line Producer, you will be primarily responsible for helping to oversee the daily script for the PBS NewsHour. You’ll write and edit copy and coordinate with graphics/digital for show bumpers. Working with the Tape Producer, you’ll ensure all video elements are ready for playback. You’ll produce stories for broadcast and digital and make editorial recommendations. Additionally, you will oversee our News Assistant program.

You’ll serve as an integral member of the Segment Production Unit, overseeing the daily production of video segments for use on-air and online. You’ll write and edit broadcast copy, objectively, and on deadline, for use in the PBS NewsHour’s daily video news summaries and select and edit incoming video images and interview clips to accompany those summaries.

In this new position, you’ll directly support PBS NewsHour with fundraising, marketing, and operational strategies. You’ll perform market research, design sales strategies, and produce marketing collateral including written communications, video reels and presentations/decks to best position us with funder goals and objectives. This position is unique in that you’ll work across all fundraising sectors to assist in breaking through with prospects or follow-ups.

The PBS NewsHour is hiring reporters as part of a new team created to improve and expand the quality and reach of our journalism. From climate change to institutional racism, from economic inequality to political polarization, PBS NewsHour’s Communities Initiative aims to establish ground-level reporting on local issues and bring vital local perspectives to our national coverage. Having experience reporting from and being knowledgeable about your community, you will bring attention to issues that are having a local impact before they gain national attention. Your stories will provide local perspectives, diversity, and sourcing on issues that are already part of the national conversation.

The PBS NewsHour is hiring reporters as part of a new team created to improve and expand the quality and reach of our journalism. From climate change to institutional racism, from economic inequality to political polarization, PBS NewsHour’s Communities Initiative aims to establish ground-level reporting on local issues and bring vital local perspectives to our national coverage. Having experience reporting from and being knowledgeable about your community, you will bring attention to issues that are having a local impact before they gain national attention. Your stories will provide local perspectives, diversity, and sourcing on issues that are already part of the national conversation.

As our Deputy News Editor, Digital, you’ll be a leader on breaking and day-of news coverage for our website. You’ll be tapped into breaking, develop, and trending news and, in coordination with the Senior News Editor, managing break news on our website and other platforms. You’ll be responsible for managing and coordinating a small team of reporters, their schedules, assignments, and deadlines.

As a National Affairs Producer, you’ll help lead a team of producers on daily segments and longer-term projects as needed, manage and plan production and delivery of high quality, innovative content. You’ll tell stories on a wide variety of topics for both television and online. You’ll drive the story idea generation; research and interviews, acquire, screen, and log footage; write copy and scripts; and facilitate/assist with studio production among other duties.

As our Production Assistant, Marketing, you’ll manage our marketing assets (including brand and talent sizzle reels), promos, funding decks and presentations. You’ll have your hands in production work as well, from editing video to acquiring and logging footage to researching and fulfilling video requests. Looking for a position where you can be creative? We welcome new and creative ideas, based on what you’ve found through research of marketing trends and opportunities. You’ll work with a wide variety of staff - from our senior editorial team to our fundraising teams and other senior staff.

As our Production Assistant, Online, you’ll be responsible for the management and publishing of all media for the nightly update to the PBS NewsHour’s website. You’ll also produce livestream event coverage and will be responsible for a wide range of writing, reporting, research, editing, and producing services.

As ourSoftware Engineeryouwill work with theNewsHour DigitalTeam to design, build, deploy and test<em>PBS NewsHour</em>products,servicesand infrastructure.You willhelp identify, troubleshoot, and solve complex softwareengineeringproblemson the server-side as well as on the client-side.You willalso help supportand maintain the NewsHour’s cloud infrastructure on AWS.

We’re looking to hire an Associate, Research and Data Analytics for our Research and Data Analytics department. In this role, you’ll be responsible for gathering and analyzing data, maintaining and continually improving our organizations data structure, and facilitate compelling presentations. You’ll will work closely with local television, national television and local radio audience data, and will be the departmental point person on streaming, digital, and social audience data.

AdLit.org is our national website about adolescent literacy. We serve educators, librarians, and parents of students in grades 6 through 12, especially those who struggle with reading and writing. We produce diverse multimedia resources about how to teach reading and writing across the content areas and about young adult literature, authors, and diverse books.

We’re looking to hire a Manager for our Local Television Outreach department. You’ll be responsible for developing and executing education and outreach projects, events, programs, and activities that will add value to the community we serve and enhance WETA’s reputation. Also, you’ll work with your supervisor in the development and implementation of programs that will strengthen WETA as a relevant and essential community institution.

We’re looking to hire a Production Workflow Architect and Post-Production Manager for our Engineering Department. In this role, you’ll gather information about production and post-production needs and research solutions. You’ll also be working with vendors and users to develop workflows that will be used cross-department and cross-platform. Your work will touch on all departments (Local TV, National Productions, and the PBS NewsHour) and range from solving specific problems for one production to charting the course for the next 5 years of technical solutions for post production and asset management.

Local History interns work within WETA’s Digital Media team to develop content for the Boundary Stones local history website (<a href="https://boundarystones.weta.org">https://boundarystones.weta.org</a&gt;). This website includes articles, photos and video related to the history of Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia and the notable events, personalities and happenings that have shaped WETA’s local community. Interns will assist in identifying, researching and writing content pieces for the website; social media promotion for the website; and making contacts with local history organizations and professionals. Interns may be required to make research trips to local libraries, archives and historical societies.

Interns in the Outreach and Community Engagement department provide support that may include writing, event management, marketing, data compilation, web research and educational development. Interns will collaborate with team members, and in some cases, manage outreach projects from conceptualization to implementation. Projects may include WETA PBS Kids virtual and/or in-person children’s events and education camps; virtual and/or in person screening events for WETA and PBS productions; and the WETA PBS Kids Writers Contest.

Interns will help Student Reporting Labs produce, edit, and distribute video content through digital platforms and manage sensitive internal documents related to students, teachers, and media partners.Interns will also help Student Reporting Labs write and produce social media content, short videos, photos, or graphics, as needed. Interns will provide production and administrative support on special projects.

Interns in WETA’s Television Broadcasting department assist producers and associate producers on production of WETA Arts, WETA Around Town, and other local documentary programming. Interns have the opportunity to gain a wide range of hands-on television production experience, and their responsibilities include acquiring b-roll, writing scripts, conducting story research, providing production assistance during shoots, and creating and organizing legal and production deliverables.