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full time and on call jobs at KQED

KQED is hiring. Details HERE and below. -Mia

KQED is currently hiring for a full-time position in our online/radio newsroom and four on-call positions. We're looking for an engagement manager (social media guru for news). We are also looking for on-call online producers for arts and news, and on-call producers for news blogging and social media. There's just one posting for the on-call producer, but I thought it would be useful for candidates to know that we're looking for a range of on-call positions.

Folks should apply online at KQED
http://www.kqed.org/about/jobs/

Here's the description for the Engagement position:

Position Title: Interactive Producer, Engagement and Social Media
Reports To: Director of Products & Services, Interactive            

Status: Full Time, Regular
Department: Interactive                                                        

Division: Digital Media & Education

Position Summary:

The Interactive Producer, Engagement and Social Media is responsible for attracting, nurturing, and interacting with the community, online and offline. This producer manages social media initiatives and accounts, as well as serves as a steward of best practices for the organization.

This role works closely with KQED News, its programs, and the newsroom to implement initiatives that build a two-way dialogue between KQED and its audience. This producer also works to develop and maintain Web products, such as interactive features, online events and other tools that grow the relationship between the organization and the community, and that promote regular usage of KQED's digital products and services. This position develops and deploys targeted online outreach and establishes professional relationships with influencers, bloggers, targeted diverse audiences, independent content creators, other media organizations and relevant tech companies.

The engagement producer serves as the lead liaison to internal groups and external partners, and fosters continuing dialogue between the Communications Department, other social media producers, and News and other content producers.

Essential Functions:

 1.  Creates effective ways to generate, maintain, and communicate to a community of online users, including social media, email newsletters, blogging, customer service inquiries and moderating of comments.

 2.  Sets clear, measurable and attainable engagement and metrics goals using Facebook Insights, Google Analytics, Topsy, HootSuite, etc. and reports out regularly to key stakeholders.

 3.  Manages KQED News' social media accounts and serves as promoter for social media use among News staff, including providing protocols and trainings to teach interested staff members on fine points of platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, mapping, and other online tools in collaboration with the News editorial staff. Creates and leads training sessions.

 4.  Serves as a point of contact for user-generated content, giving regular contributors a familiar face to interact with and piloting the flow of information.

 5.  Creates editorial contentin the form of feature package creation, selection and schedule of homepage features, hosting webchats, creating multimedia content, and blogging.

 6.  Serves as a liaison between partner organizations, including other public media organizations and news outlets, and KQED News and ensures KQED’s inclusion in materials created by other organizations

 7.  Develops and maintains partnerships between KQED and companies that build online tools such as platforms for community engagement.

 8.  Creates and executes strategies for Social Media Optimization and Search Engine Optimization for KQED.org<http://kqed.org/>.

 9.  Serves as a liaison between the News department and the Communications departments. Attends Communications department meetings for News and creates regular reports for the Communications department on News department projects.

 10. Talks about social media trends and impact to various stakeholder groups, including national conferences, Community Advisory Panel, brown-bag lunches, and others.

 11. Performs other essential duties as required.

Knowledge/Experience Required

 1.  At least one to two years’ experience working as an online community manager or maintaining a blog or website.

 2.  Knowledge and practices of social media sites is required.

 3.  Well informed in a wide range of areas, including current events, arts, culture, film, history, science, and public policy.

 4.  Ability to multi-task required.

 5.  Public speaking skills required.

 6.  Proven ability to build and maintain a wide-range of partnerships.

 7.  Knowledge & experience maintaining databases.

Knowledge/Experience Desired

 1.  Bachelor’s Degree.

 2.  Experience as a working news journalist.

 3.  Experience working with different types of digital media content, including audio and video with the ability to perform simple HTML programming and coding.

 4.  Wide knowledge of Bay Area people, places, partners, and events preferred.

 5.  Public Media or news content experience desired.

On-call position, this application is for arts, news, social media and blogging:
Position Title: Interactive Producer (Temporary On Call)
Reports To: Executive Director, Interactive
Department: Interactive

Division: Interactive

Position Summary:

KQED is seeking a strong, multiplatform producer who can fill in for staff producers during vacations and illnesses, and to provide additional support with special projects or major initiatives. The Interactive Producer (Temporary On Call) is a skilled interactive producer with a background in producing content features and products for the web and mobile and working with a cross discipline team of editorial, design, information architecture, engineering, QA and promotion. The candidate must be able to handle projects from start to finish either as the lead project manager or in tandem with another assigned staffer, which could range from long-term product launches to breaking news. Functions include updating and managing web pages; planning, editing, producing and measuring digital content (text, photographs, graphics, audio and video); social media engagement and blogging, developing product requirements, managing project schedule, and communicating with key stakeholders. The Interactive Producer is capable of working with a variety of web publishing tools, content and project management systems and requires little supervision. The ideal candidate is creative, innovative and agile, with a passion for the intersection of editorial, user experience and technology.

 *   Essential Functions:

 *   Design, create and produce feature coverage and products, taking projects from conceptualization to research and development, through pre-production, production, post-production, delivery, evaluation and final report.

 *   Serve as backup to other Producers, the Web Editor / Blogger and Reporters as needed to maintain consistency, timeliness and accuracy.

 *   Serve as support for content supplied by staff and freelance contributors. This includes writing headlines, copyediting, publishing, and verifying online content.

 *   Assist in social media engagement efforts including oversight of user generated content and communities.

 *   Identify and track key metrics such as traditional pageviews, social media engagement and streaming media to help evaluate success.

 *   Act as a source of ideas for new innovations and features.

 *   Other duties as assigned.

Announcing U.S. Russian Journalism Co-Reporting Project, deadline April 22

Interesting opportunity. -mia

The Eurasia Foundation is calling for story ideas in a unique effort to document common social challenges faced by both the United States and Russia. Follow the link here, or have a read of the press release below. Latitude News is co-running the project – we’re eager for your pitches!

http://www.usrussiacivilsociety.org/news/us-russian-journalism-coreporting-announcement

Nominations Sought For U.S.-Russian Journalism Co-Reporting Project; Winners To Be Awarded Ipads

Washington/Moscow Eurasia Foundation is calling for story ideas in a unique effort to document common social challenges faced by both the United States and Russia.

The “Common Stories Project” is the outgrowth of a two-year effort by Eurasia Foundation to foster collaboration among civil-society initiatives in both countries.  Stories produced collaboratively by editors, writers and news organizations in both countries on a single topic will be edited for publication by the Missouri School of Journalism’s “Global Journalist.”

The project is part of the US-Russia Civil Society Partnership Program (CSPP) of the Eurasia Foundation, reports Maria Balinska, a former longtime BBC journalist and editor now based in Boston with the journalism startup Latitude News.  Balinska is the U.S. coordinating editor for Common Stories.

The Russian coordinating editor of the project is media consultant Veronika Menjoun, who has been working as a course leader and project manager at Sweden’s FOJO, the Institute for Advanced Training of Journalists for 16 years.

“Our two-country journalism task force was looking for a way to contrast and compare through storytelling the issues both countries face,” says Balinska. “This is a chance, with the assistance of skilled translators and editors, to explore these and other topics as they emerge.”

Balinska said the project now seeks pitches for “feature stories with legs in both countries about collaboration between the United States and Russia” that fall within the scope of the CSPP’s eleven working groups.  Those themes include anti-corruption, child protection, community development, education and youth, environmental protection, gender equity, higher education, human rights and rule of law, media and access to information, migration and public health. Pitches could, for example, focus on how the two countries are dealing with the problems of smoking cessation, domestic violence, obesity or waste management.

Interested parties are asked to send a brief proposal (300 words or less) to csppmedia@gmail.com by Monday, April 22, 2013. The proposal should include a story idea, as well as:

  • Contact information and a resume or CV of the principal applicant
  • Where the reporting would be carried out in the United States
  • What the applicant would be looking for from a Russian partner
  • Where the applicant would propose to publish or broadcast the piece in addition to the Global Journalist.

The program is designed to highlight the potential for more systematic collaboration.  While it does not provide financial remuneration, it will award an iPad to those four participants deemed by an expert panel to have produced the most outstanding work.

About CSPP

The Russia-US Civil Society Partnership Program promotes collaboration between Russian and U.S. non-government organizations, with the aim of improving the lives of citizens of both countries. Program participants design innovative recommendations through CSPP’s Working Groups. CSPP is funded and implemented by Eurasia Foundation, in partnership with New Eurasia Foundation.

The Mass Media and Access to Information Working Group is co-chaired by Anna Koshman, Director, Russian Association of Independent Regional Publishers, and Howard Finberg, Director of Interactive Learning, Poynter Institute.

 

duPont Awards deadline approaching, July 1

Submit your broadcast work for this big time award. Details below. -Mia

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Just wanted to remind everyone that the deadline for the Alfred I duPont Awards is coming up.

They start accepting entries on May 1.

CALL FOR ENTRIES:

Alfred I duPont Awards

Honoring the best in broadcast, digital & documentary reporting at Columbia

We invite you to submit local and national radio programming for a duPont-Columbia Award. Administered at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, the duPont Awards are considered to be the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes. Outstanding journalism, excellent reporting in the pubic service and innovative storytelling are honored by the jury.

Past winners include radio documentaries about the fiscal crisis, post traumatic stress in Iraq war veterans and ongoing reporting about New York's Stop and Frisk program.

DEADLINE: July 1, 2013
ELIGIBILITY: Stories must have aired or appeared online between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013.
www.dupontawards.org
@duPontAwards

TRANSOM.org – Workshop News

The latest from TRANSOM.org. I'm especially excited that they're bringing one of their trainings to NYC this summer. Application deadline is April 30. 

-Mia

City Lore Documentary Institute, NY, NY: August 12 – 30, 2013

City Lore is offering a three-week documentary institute co-sponsored by Transom along with The Bronx Documentary Center and the Manhattan Neighborhood Network.  The City Lore Documentary Institutewill equip participants with the skills to become cultural documentarians and multimedia storytellers. The radio track of the institute is intended to provide audio storytelling and sound gathering skills for beginning producers.

TRANSOM.org
a showcase & workshop for new public radio
April 11, 2013

* Transom Workshop News *

Applications for Fall 2013 Transom Story Workshop in Woods Hole are open. Deadline May 31st:
The current TSW class In Session blog:
And a reminder about our Traveling Workshop with City Lore in NYC. Applications due April 30th:

Drop over any time,

Jay Allison
Atlantic Public Media
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
www.transom.org

Two digital events at Columbia J-school

From Columbia J-school's social media guru Sree Sreenivasan. -Mia

Dear friends:

We have two digital events coming up at Columbia J-school I wanted to let you know about. More events info via @columbiajourn on Twitter: http://twitter.com/columbiajourn

One is the FREE annual Hearst Digital Media Lecture on Thursday night 6-9 pm, with TWO receptions! – with Amanda Cox, award-winning Graphics Editor at The New York Times, along with the awarding of the the Innovator Award by Mark Hansen, Director of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation (Mark is new to the J-school and absolutely awesome – worth going just to see him in action!). Many of you know I ran this program for 10 years, before I moved from the J-school to the Provost's Office – hope you will try to attend and listen to Amanda. Lauren Mack <lem2111@columbia.edu> can answer any questions you might have.  Details below.

The second event is my next social media workshop, on May 16 – run by the Continuing Education department and coordinated by Tatiana Rivera <tgr2114@columbia.edu>.

@SREE'S SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOP – NYC IN-PERSON & ONLINE FROM ANYWHERE: Social Media One-night Stand – advanced social media workshop, Thursday, May 16, 2013 (includes two weeks of online coaching, taught w/ @wordwhacker & @travelogged). Details: http://bit.ly/cjsm2013b #cjsm – INTERMEDIATE and ADVANCED LEVELS. [Because of time-zone issues, many people who sign up miss the live session, but access the video recording and the online coaching.]

sample tweet] May 16 is Social Media One-night Stand, @Sree's @ColumbiaJourn advanced workshop you can take from anywhere: http://bit.ly/cjsm2013b #cjsm

See what happened in the Seattle version of this on March 18:
http://bit.ly/sreeattletips and read my tribute to Roger Ebert: 5 Social Media Lessons from @EbertChicago: http://bit.ly/sreebert

The Hearst details are below. //sree//

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From: Lauren Mack <lem2111@columbia.edu>

Join us for the annual Hearst Digital Media Lecture by our Hearst New Media Professional in Residence, Amanda Cox, award-winning Graphics Editor at The New York Times. The Hearst Digital Media Lecture is an annual event about the state of digital journalism. The evening includes introductory remarks and presentation of the Innovator Award by Mark Hansen, Director of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation.

The Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence is appointed each academic year to participate in the educational activities of the school. The appointment has been made possible by a generous gift from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. Recent professionals-in-residence have included: Krishna Bharat, founder of Google News; Steven Berlin Johnson, noted digital media expert and bestselling author; Kenneth Lerer, Huffington Post?s chairman and co-founder; Brian Storm, former lead multimedia producer, MSNBC.com; Adrian Holovaty, former editorial innovations editor, WashingtonPost.com, among others.

6:00 pm-7:00 pm: Reception – drinks and food

7:00 pm-8:00 pm: lecture, Q&A + presentation of the Innovator Award

8:00 pm-9:00 pm: Reception – drinks and food continues

No charge; all are welcome. RSVP here: http://fs8.formsite.com/cjdos/HearstRSVP/

NOTE: Free open, wi-fi available in the lecture hall for journalists, bloggers and others. We'll be using the #cjhearst hashtag.

SAMPLE TWEET: Thurs, 7p ET in-person & webcast – Amanda Cox – Hearst Lecture @ColumbiaJourn – #cjhearst #cjsm

Read/hear some of the previous Hearst New Media Lectures and learn more about the Hearst programs at Columbia: http://bit.ly/cjhearst

OUR THANKS TO THE HEARST FOUNDATION FOR ITS GENEROUS SUPPORT OF DIGITAL MEDIA EDUCATION AT THE COLUMBIA JOURNALISM SCHOOL

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Prof. Sree Sreenivasan | sree@sree.net | http://sree.net | @sree
Chief Digital Officer, Columbia University
[ an explanation: http://bit.ly/sreejob3 ]

TWITTER: @sree – http://twitter.com/sree (tweeting tech, media & more)
FACEBOOK: http://fb.com/sreetips or http://fb.com/sreenet
LINKEDIN: http://linkedin.com/in/sreenivasan
INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/sreenet
-> SreeTips blog on CNET News: http://bit.ly/sreetips

NPR Digital Services webinar on the Basics of Data Journalism, April 11, 2pm ET

NPR Digital Services has been offering a great series of webinars on all things digital journalism. This week it's on Data Journalism. Details below along with links to previous webinars.

-Mia

Join us this week for the third webinar in our Habits for Your Digital
Newsroom series.

The Basics of Data Journalism

Everyone is talking data–crime reports, government documents, business
earnings–but how do you make sense of the spreadsheets? What data should
you be looking for? And how can you use it? StateImpact has excelled with
data-fueled reporting. We'll talk with them about where to find reliable
data, how to mine it and then how to present it to your audience.
Presenter: Jessica Pupovac, Data and Digital Coordinator for StateImpact

Thursday, April 11
2:00 – 3:00pm ET
Register here:
http://pulseapp.publicbroadcasting.net/ct.html?ufl=4&rtr=on&s=7cn42,17k0v,2hna,8le6,f867,5o7w,f84j&MLM_MID=2032159&MLM_UNIQUEID=409dcad6e3

In case you missed last week's webinar on Mastering the Art of Live
Blogging, or Analytics for Reporters, you can watch them on our blog::
http://pulseapp.publicbroadcasting.net/ct.html?ufl=4&rtr=on&s=7cn42,17k0v,2hna,j2jt,h5zz,5o7w,f84j&MLM_MID=2032159&MLM_UNIQUEID=409dcad6e3

Third Coast Short Docs Challenge, deadline April 30

It's time for the Third Coast Short Docs challenge – all about APPETITE. Details HERE and below. -Mia

The Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge is back! Here's your chance to take part in an international audio mega-project, whether you can produce radio in your sleep, or have always hungered to utter the words "Testing, 1, 2, 3. Testing" into a microphone. ShortDocs are for everyone.

INTRODUCING ALL THE COOKS IN THE KITCHEN

As always, the ShortDocs Challenge comes with a set of rules inspired by a partner. For 2013 that's the James Beard Foundation – a great organization that celebrates, nurtures, and preserves diverse culinary heritages through awards, education, and outreach. 

Additionally, four Chicago-based "ShortDocs Chefs" will concoct original dishes (!) inspired by the winning ShortDocs stories. Starring: Rick Bayless (Frontera), Jason Hammel (Lula Cafe), and Iliana Regan(Elizabeth Restaurant) and one more, TBA.

 

THE INGREDIENTS/RULES

The 2013 ShortDocs Challenge invites anyone and everyone to produce audio stories that are:

– inspired by the idea of “appetite
– two to three minutes in length

– presented in three “courses” (think: chapters)
– include one of the five tastes in the title: bitter, salty, sour, sweet, umami. (Kudos to you umami-goers.)

The deadline for submitting your ShortDoc is April 30.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Submitting your ShortDoc is simple. Behold!

1. Fill out this form.

2. Email us your 2-3 minute story (MP3 please), an accompanying story image (mandatory) and a producer photo (optional).

Furthermore:

– If attachments total more than 7 MB, send your audio and images separately.

– Please name your files thusly. Please.

Audio: lastname_taste.mp3 (i.e. obama_umami.mp3)

Accompanying image (mandatory): lastname_taste.jpg
(i.e. obama_umami.jpg)

Producer photo (optional): lastname_biopic.jpg
(i.e. obama_biopic.jpg)

Questions about how/what to submit? Check out the FAQ and/or feel

free to ask.

 

MORE ON APPETITE

Inspired by the James Beard Foundation's 2013 Conference theme, we encourage you to interpret "appetite" broadly, from the literal to the figurative. Consider stories of hunger and obesity, craving and satiety, profit and desire. Make us laugh, make us cry, make us angry, make us think – so long as your story explores appetite in some way, and follows the other ShortDocs rules.

FIRST EVER PEOPLE’S SHORTDOC!

We're excited to let YOU have your say in this year's Challenge. Eight finalist submissions will be posted online in July and voted upon for the first ever People’s ShortDoc Award. 

INCENTIVES (WE KNOW, THEY HELP.)

– Four winning submissions will each inspire an original dish from a ShortDocs Chef (listed above).

– Winners and ShortDocs Chefs’ will take the stage to present their creations publicly at the Third Coast Filmless Festival (TCFF), October 19-20, in Chicago.

– Eight finalists (including winners) will receive a free pass to the TCFF.

– All submissions are archived permanently on this site, and all producers are added to the Third Coast Producer Index.

– All participants receive a free one-year Pro SoundCloud account.

– All eight finalists will receive a free two-year SoundCloud Pro Unlimited account.

– Top submissions will be featured on Third Coast’s Re:sound (WBEZ, Chicago) and podcast, and presented on PRX's Public Radio Remix, and at Third Coast listening events in Chicago and beyond.

SHORTDOCS TIMELINE

March 12 – through April 30 – Submissions accepted

July 1 – Eight finalists announced online
Mid-July – Voting open for People’s ShortDoc Award
Early August – Winners informed
October 19 – Winning producers and ShortDocs Chefs take the stage at the TCFF
December – Top 12 – 15 submissions featured on Re:sound

 

FINE PRINT

– Producers retain non-exclusive rights to their submissions.

– TCF retains the right to showcase all ShortDocs in service of Festival happenings – including at Listening Rooms, on Re:sound, on PRX’sPublic Radio Re:mix. (Note – producers may also license ShortDocs themselves, through PRX.org)

– Four winners will be selected by Third Coast staff, with help from the James Beard Foundation and ShortDocs chefs.

– The People’s ShortDoc Award will be presented in addition to these four winners.

Questions about how/what to submit? Check out the FAQ and/or feel free to ask.

P.S.

Our apologies for all the food metaphors and puns, but we've found them near-impossible to avoid in, um, cooking up this year's Challenge.

PRX offers new funds for STEM stories, application deadline April 22

I'm particularly excited about this – $$ for creative science stories! Details here and below. -Mia
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PRX is excited to announce a new competition for audio production funding.

We call this the STEM Story Project, focusing on science, technology, engineering and math.
The Sloan Foundation is making this possible. We have a pool of $40,000 to distribute among multiple projects.
PRX has a lot of experience in conducting these sorts of open calls. Our goals with the STEM Story Project are to:
* unleash highly creative, scientifically-accurate original productions 
* educate and excite listeners 
* tell stories and explain STEM issues in new ways
We want these productions to be heard and shared widely. So, proposals need to appeal both to stations and directly to listeners. You'll find a lot more details about the PRX STEM Story Project here: application and guidelines [https://prx.submittable.com/submit/19932].
The deadline for applications is April 22, 2013 at 11:59PM ET.
Thank you!
John Barth
Genevieve Sponsler
Lily Bui
The PRX STEM Story Project Team
P.S. If you applied to our Global Story Project, please read the guidelines for STEM carefully — we've changed some things.

Internships at Snap Judgment, Oakland, CA

Hey up and comers – Snap Judgment in Oakland is looking for interns (PAID!). Spread the word. -Mia

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Snap Judgment Paid Internship

Snap Judgment is the smoking-hot storytelling show that broadcasts on NPR stations nationwide, based in Oakland, California. Interns are expected to work between 25 – 40 hours a week at our downtown Oakland studios. The Snap Judgment internship position pays $11/hr. Before applying for this internship position, please listen to at least one entire Snap Judgment episode at SnapJudgment.org.

Job responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Snap Judgment interns assist with all aspects of the show's production. They provide research assistance, perform various administrative tasks involved in the daily running of the office, assist in editing, tape logging, scoring, interviewing and eventually are expected to be able to produce a story from start to finish.

Qualifications:

Snap Judgment interns should have a passionate interest in storytelling, narrative craft and sound. We are looking for people who want to rock a story.
Knowledge of audio and video editing software programs is preferred.
Interns must already live commuting distance from our downtown Oakland studio.
This is a three month paid position.
How to Apply
Please jobs@snapjudgment.org a single Microsoft Word document which includes the following information:

A resume
A cover letter explaining why you want to work at Snap.
Answers to the following questions:

1. Describe two of your favorite Snap Judgment stories, and why you liked them. (All shows are archived on the website.)
2. Describe one or two stories that you didn’t like, and why.
3. Suggest two story ideas (one paragraph each) for Snap Judgment.

MEGAPOLIS Festival, NYC April 19-21, big discount if you live in upstate NY

For my friends in upstate NY, big discounts until April 5 for the Megapolis Festival in NYC, April 19-21. Details below. -Mia

Are you a resident of NY State, but outside of NYC? Do you know anyone that fits this profile? Because there is money for NY State residents outside of NYC to attend the MEGAPOLIS Festival.

The details are in the ticketing section of our website. Here is the link: http://megapolisfestival.org/blargh/nyc-2013/tickets/


The deadline to apply for this is April 5.
Do you want to come to the MEGAPOLIS festival, but you don't have a lot of money? Do you know anyone that fits this profile? We have Early Bird
tickets to the MEGAPOLIS festival right now! They are 25% off!

This info is also in the ticketing section of our website. Here is the link again: http://megapolisfestival.org/blargh/nyc-2013/tickets/


This limited time offer ends on April 5, so act now!
Do you want to know more about the MEGAPOLIS festival, but don't know how? Check out and "like" our profile on fb: https://www.facebook.com/megapolisfest or follow us on twitter @megapolis