Editor/ Senior Producer

The Team: Cork’s 96FM & C103 is one of Ireland’s biggest and most successful local radio businesses. Operating from Broadcasting House in the city, Cork’s 96FM is home to the region’s most listened to Breakfast Show, Lorraine & Ross in the Morning. C103 plays Cork’s Greatest Hits from studios in both Mallow and Bandon. Both brands attract almost a quarter of a million adult listeners across Cork City and County each week.

Your Role: A rare opportunity has now arisen for an exceptional person to provide leadership and direction for the small team that produces this award-winning programme.

Day to day you will:

• Lead the small team producing Cork’s 96FM’s daily talk show, The Opinion Line.
• Provide hands on editorial leadership ensuring content is what the target audience wants to hear and to talk about.
• Respond to audience interaction and breaking news during the show.
• Forward plan and generate fresh ideas.
• Report directly to the Local Content Controller and work with him to deliver on the goals for the programme.
• Be highly organised and work well under pressure

What we’re looking for from you:

• An ability to understand our audience and the Cork marketplace
• A creative mind and a drive to produce engaging and relevant content
• A thorough understanding of media law and relevant codes from the regulator.
• A good ambassador for the station, you are great at building and nurturing relationships internally and externally.
• Confident working in a fast-paced environment and able to react positively to change.
• An ability to use audio recording equipment and audio editing software
• Social Media savvy with an ability to produce content for online channels including imagery and video.
• Experience in a similar role and/or on-air experience is highly desirable.

We are Wireless Ireland: We create great audio and digital products. Our live radio and podcasts, along with our web and social pages, play a massive part in our listeners lives. We engage, we inform and we entertain with our market leading products. In Ireland we own or represent stations in all main urban centres, and we create award winning solutions for our commercial partners. We are also part of News Broadcasting with radio stations like Virgin Radio, talkSPORT, Times Radio and talkRADIO which are redefining speech broadcasting on digital audio platforms, connected TV and beyond. Wireless Ireland is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News

At News UK & Ireland our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive.  Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like.  Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I  strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes.  We also have 11 employee-led networks.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff.

In addition we also offer:

•   25 days holiday per year, rising to 30 days after 5 years.
•   Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks.
• “Bikes for Work” scheme
•  Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.