I interviewed Noah Broch who works as an associate producer for Vice News and he talks about his work in the company and how he got started.

RS: What is it that you do as an associate producer for Vice News?

NB: That’s a great question. Associate producers are a very important job. It’s technically one of the lower positions in the production hierarchy, but you are working alongside the producer who is, in all intents and purposes, the director of the documentary that you’re working on together and you’re just assisting them in all of the things that need to happen in order for a documentary to be made. Whether it’s scripting or it’s conducting the actual interviews that you need to fill out the documentary or working with them to find the correct piece of archival to support the documentary and working on the logistics of licensing the archival, it’s a variety of things. 

RS: How did you get to be able to work as a product for NBC Universal, Vox and Vice? Did you know someone or did you have a good resume?

NB: I originally got into documentary work. I went to Hampton University and I was an English major, studied creative writing and while I was in college I got an internship through CragisList working for a True Crime Author and he always promised me that he would get me a job someday and I didn’t entirely believe him and then after I graduated college I spent a year being a production assistant on various commercials and I moved up to Albany and worked on this Independent film up there and I was doing a lot of driving vans and trucks. My first producing job was–I basically got all my jobs through facebook groups and going back to this author, there was a production company that wanted to option one of his books and he ended up giving my name to one of the production executives who was also staffing a show for Investigation Discovery.

(See rest of the interview in video)