Careers | Blue Ridge Public Radio

Working at BPR
Blue Ridge Public Radio (BPR) is the NPR affiliate serving Western North Carolina, reaching approximately 90,000 listeners each week through BPR News and BPR Classic, along with a growing digital audience. Our mission is to inform, inspire, and connect our community with trusted journalism, diverse voices, and exceptional music.

Working at BPR means joining a small but mighty team dedicated to public service. Together we create, support, and promote award-winning content that enriches and reflects the communities we serve. We hold ourselves to high standards of collaboration, creativity, integrity, and inclusion, and we strive to build a workplace where every employee feels supported, respected, and empowered to do their best work.

Explore our current openings below and discover how you can help shape public media across Western North Carolina. Don’t see an opening right now? Check back often or listen on-air for upcoming opportunities.

Open Positions
Business Sponsorship Account Executive (Sales)

More Positions Coming Soon!

Our Hiring Process - Important Disclaimer
To promote fairness and reduce potential bias, we use a “blind” initial screening of all applicants. At this stage, personal identifiers, such as your name, gender, age, race, and educational institutions, are removed so that reviewers focus only on your skills, experience, and abilities relevant to the role. The responses you provide to the pre-screening questions at this stage determine the next steps in the application process.

While this anonymous stage is an important step in mitigating bias, it is only the first step in our hiring process. Later stages involve direct interaction, where you will have the opportunity to share your full professional background and the strengths that make you a good fit for the position. This process reflects BPR’s ongoing commitment to equity, inclusion, and equal opportunity for all applicants.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Blue Ridge Public Radio is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at Blue Ridge Public Radio are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, family or parental status, national origin, age, disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

We are Living Wage Certified in Buncombe County, North Carolina.

Click here to see our Annual EEO report, as filed with the  FCC.