Senior Producer, Video, L.A. Bureau

The New York Times Video department is looking for a Senior Producer based in Los Angeles, California to help broaden the department’s coverage of the state and help stay on top of global news developments. We’re looking for an experienced manager and seasoned video journalist to oversee work that ranges from live streams, short form news video, Reporter Videos with Times’s journalists and occasional deployments. You will work in collaboration with the bureau and newsroom to assign coverage, and to identify, verify, edit and publish video material on-site. 

You are an experienced team leader who can work autonomously to help set the video team’s news agenda, identify critical stories, and jump on storytelling opportunities both on and off platform. You should have experience reporting on stories from California and the U.S. West. 

You are  a strong leader who is eager to motivate and inspire teams, and innovate. You are an excellent collaborator, who will work with The Times’ California-based leadership to drive video coverage. 

This is a hybrid position based in Los Angeles and includes regular attendance in the office each week per your departmental guidance.

Responsibilities will include:

• Drive innovative and exclusive video news coverage in a range of formats. 
• Oversee a team that produces live journalism, Reporter Videos and originally reported visual stories, and foster experiments with new video concepts and strategies.
• Draw ideas from a range of video sources, including wire services, UGC, eyewitness video, archival footage, motion graphics, and originally-shot footage.
• Collaborate and coordinate on breaking news coverage with The Times’ Live team, which produces real-time updates and analysis, as well as a worldwide network of reporters and editors.
• Review, assign and provide feedback on stories.
• Help guide breaking news coverage.
• Oversee the production of social content and off-platform video.
• Manage video journalists and editors in the newsroom and field and occasionally manage complex, high-risk news deployments. 
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
• This role reports to a deputy editor for video.

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years experience in digital or broadcast news.
• 4+ years experience managing video journalists or newsroom teams. 
• Demonstrated deep command of a variety of video sources, including wire services, UGC, archival footage, motion graphics, and original footage.
• Understanding of mainstream and emerging social channels.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience overseeing geolocation and UGC verification work. 
• Experience developing and editing visual material for social platforms.
• Expert knowledge of current events with advanced level experience covering breaking news stories in the US and internationally. 
• Knowledge of California and experience covering news in the western United States.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including giving feedback clearly and effectively.
• Fluency in a second language, Spanish preferred.
• Familiar with digital storytelling formats.
• Flexibility to work extended hours and some weekends. 
• Able to meet and make quick decisions under deadlines and to adapt to change in a daily, unpredictable news environment.

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