The Spectator is Britain’s most influential weekly magazine, reaching more than two million people each week through our digital platforms. With nearly 200 years of heritage and a rapidly growing YouTube and podcast offering, we are at the forefront of political commentary and cultural debate.
We are looking for a Broadcast Producer to provide fixed-term maternity cover in our broadcast team. You will help create agenda-setting video and audio content that complements the unique voice of the world’s oldest weekly magazine. You will work across our suite of podcasts – including Quite Right!, Coffee House Shots, Americano and Reality Check – and help maintain and grow our YouTube channel of 500,000 subscribers.
The successful candidate will assist with the day-to-day production of The Spectator’s established broadcast output. This will include generating ideas for podcasts and video, booking interesting guests and writing incisive questions to brief hosts. You will work closely with our technical team during recordings to ensure the highest editorial standards are upheld before packaging and releasing content for maximum impact.
You will have a proven track record in the end-to-end production of political and news content and a keen understanding of the stories driving the day in Westminster and beyond. You will also be an advanced user of Adobe Premiere Pro and adept in your chosen digital audio workstation – Adobe Audition, Logic or Hindenburg Journalist. You will understand video formats and platform requirements and be able to write accurate, clean and engaging copy. You will be digitally literate, adaptable and aware of emerging social media trends. Most importantly, you will enjoy working in a busy office environment where no two days are the same. This is a fixed-term maternity cover position.
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The Spectator is a weekly delight if you love good writing, contentious opinion and hard-hitting comment.
With the finest writing on current affairs, politics, the arts, books and life, you'll read regular columnists who delight, provoke and amuse and editorial features of incredible breadth and depth.
Established in 1828, The Spectator is the oldest continuously published magazine in the English language. Its taste for controversy, however, remains undiminished. There is no party line to which its writers are bound – originality of thought and elegance of expression are the sole editorial constraints. The result, week after week, is that Britain’s best columnists, critics and cartoonists turn out their finest work for the magazine and give you their views unfiltered and at cask strength.
