[Updated! Now with working interweb links! Thanks to m'colleague Nik Silver]
I’m pleased to report this blog has had some success on the recruitment front, so here goes again… and this time, it’s for two of my teams.
You might have seen the story in Media Guardian today… We’re looking for an entire video desk – a head of video and four video producers, as well as a head of audio and two producers for our established audio desk.
The video team will be the people who help form and launch our ambitious video plans (think: nothing like anything any other UK newspaper publisher is doing right now). The audio folk will be joining the very successful team that’s already brought you all these hit podcasts.
We need people with relevant broadcast or digital experience, blistering editing skills (we use Macs – currently Audacity for audio and Final Cut Pro for video), and lots of ideas you want to put into action. Either way, if you fancy some responsibility, plus the thrill (and scary bits) of doing completely new stuff every day, this is the place for you.
Wow. Cool.
Talking of things video… does this mean you’ll be going to NAB in Vegas in April?
Hi Muz – I’m afraid not. Just back from the States, and not planning a return trip for a while…
What field recording equipment do you use for the Guardian podcasts?
Cynom – we’ve got a variety of devices on the go. It really depends on the circumstances, and the number of people/things we need to record.
That makes sense. The reason I was asking was that I am in the process of buying some podcast/audio equipment and am deciding between something like the Edirol R-09, the M-Audio Microtrack and the Zoom H4 recorder… so I figured the Guardian would be using a nice on-the-go device along those lines.
If it’s for straightforward interviews or suchlike then the Edirol gets my vote, although we actually use them and the M-Audios. But you can’t beat the former’s ease of use, and they’re much more rugged than the R-01s that preceeded them.