Employment Opportunities

WUGA is hiring a an Underwriting and Traffic Coordinator


The Underwriting and Traffic Coordinator manages underwriting sales and administration, revenue operations, content production, and traffic systems to support the delivery of underwriting and promotional messaging. This position also writes, records, and produces underwriting and public service announcements and manages program and traffic logs to ensure accurate scheduling and compliance. The coordinator collaborates with consultants, clients, business and station staff to support efficient station operations.

Interested candidates can apply through the UGA jobs website.


WUGA is hiring a Senior Content Producer

The Senior Content Producer helps WUGA-FM tell the stories that matter to the Athens and Northeast Georgia community and reports to the News Director.

This position will be responsible for editorial and production planning for daily and weekly news programs, including topic selection, story ideas, and guest selection and booking. This position will develop a range of news, information, and entertainment consistent with the mission of public radio, the University of Georgia, and Georgia Public Broadcasting and work with full-time and part-time radio staff to assist in recording and editing and to ensure that the final product meets editorial, production, and technical standards.

The Senior Content Producer will also produce stories for air in other parts of WUGA’s schedule and on daily newscasts, as well as initiate and maintain productive and mutually beneficial relationships with units at the University, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and communities within the station’s service area.

The incumbent will work closely with the News Director and collaborate with the Program Director to identify opportunities to expand the reach, scope, and variety of WUGA News through compelling journalism, on-air hosting, special projects, and field reporting as needed.

Interested candidates can apply through the UGA jobs website.


WUGA is hiring for a FWS Junior Reporter.

Build your journalistic portfolio and transform in-depth local reporting into broadcast-ready news packages, podcasts and digital content for WUGA FM.

WUGA is seeking self-motivated, dynamic, and curious individuals with strong writing skills to become an integral member of our News Department. We aim to find people passionate about sharing local news stories, including rarely-heard stories.

Applicants must be Federal Work Study eligible.

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WUGA FM offers internships to University of Georgia students in a variety areas of radio station operations. Interested candidates should apply through https://app.joinhandshake.com

News/Athens News Matters

Interns in the newsroom have an opportunity to contribute content, written or voiced, to WUGA FM's news products, including daily newscasts and our weekly public affairs program, Athens News Matters.

Many of our interns have gone on to successful careers in broadcasting at NPR and its affiliate stations. Working with our news producers and reporters, interns work on scripts for news stories, conduct research, work with anchors to prepare them for interviews, edit audio, and with exceptionally qualified candidates, report, produce, and voice their own work.

The ideal candidate for this internship should have strong writing skills, a familiarity with how to write journalistically, and have a proven ability to meet deadlines.

Operations/Production

Develop a detailed understanding of the operational functions at an NPR-affiliated radio station. Provide hands-on support in preparing program materials, conducting program historical research, observing station staff in preparing automation systems for error-free, professional-sounding broadcasts. Acquire detailed understanding of the broadcast process. This is an on-site internship.