Senior Video Journalist

3 Months ago • 8 Years + • $124,979 PA - $152,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Video Journalist role involves producing, editing, and publishing short-form vertical videos featuring New York Times reporters. The responsibilities include identifying compelling stories, overseeing cinematographers and editors, collaborating with visual editors, and ensuring adherence to newsroom standards. The role requires a strong news sense, thoughtful story framing, video production expertise, and an understanding of social video trends. The candidate will need to handle newsroom deadlines and manage multiple projects. This is a hybrid position based in New York or Washington, D.C. which includes regular attendance in the office.
Must have:
  • 8+ years of video editing and production experience
  • Experience creating original videos
  • Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Excellent news judgment and ability to synthesize information.
Good to have:
  • Video editing skills with Adobe Premiere
  • Design and animation skills
  • Experience working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team
  • Experience producing shoots and interviewing experts on camera.
  • Ability to work a flexible schedule.

Job Details

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for. 

The New York Times is an industry leader in visual journalism with reporting that includes extraordinary news coverage, investigations, and culture and lifestyle reporting. The Reporter Video team identifies compelling stories and brings the depth and breadth of our news report onto our site and other platforms through video that features the expertise of our world-class journalists.

This is a Senior Video Journalist role for someone who wants to produce, edit and publish short-form vertical videos with New York Times reporters on camera. We’re looking for an experienced candidate who is versatile enough to work on news, features, enterprise and investigative projects with colleagues across the newsroom. You have a well developed news sense and thoughtful story framing skills. You also have a refined understanding of video production and storytelling, including video editing, writing for narration and social copy, and a clear sense for how to creatively use graphics and animation to illustrate complex ideas. This role is for someone with a deep understanding of social video trends and who takes an innovative and adaptive approach to video formats and techniques.

Your portfolio and work samples should reveal a strong grasp of modern mobile video storytelling, and it should show that you have creative ideas and the ability to work on small or large teams. You are solid technically, ideas-oriented and have solid news judgment. Cinematography skills are an added asset. We’re looking for someone who excels on deadlines and has experience juggling multiple projects at any given time. 

It is a hybrid position based in New York or Washington, D.C. and includes regular attendance in the office each week per your departmental guidance.

Responsibilities:

  • Script, produce, edit and publish a formatted series of vertical videos.

  • Oversee the work of cinematographers and editors and other collaborators.

  • Identify breaking news and enterprise across our news report and develop stories that are journalistically powerful and visually transformative.

  • Collaborate with visual editors to develop video formats that bring our best journalism to new audiences.

  • Work closely with video leaders and other newsroom reporters to ensure our work follows newsroom standards. 

  • Must be able to handle newsroom deadlines and juggle multiple projects at any given time.

  • 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 Senior Producer on the Reporter Video team in NYC.

Basic Qualifications:

  • 8+ years of multimedia storytelling, video editing and production experience at at a major video outlet or production company 

  • Experience creating original videos that incorporate audio, video, still images, graphics and text

  • Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud

  • Excellent news judgment and proven ability to work with colleagues and reporters to synthesize newsgathering and/or investigations into a tight, informative and engaging video.

  • Experience creating original videos that intelligently incorporate audio, video, animation and text.

  • Facility in using photo, video, audio, graphics and animation in storytelling.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Able to meet deadlines and adapt to change within an unpredictable news and production environment

  • Video editing skills with Adobe Premiere

  • Design and animation skills including experience with design and animation software (Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop and After Effects) and a clear grasp of typography, layout, color, motion, and behavior would be a bonus.

  • Experience working collaboratively with members of a multidisciplinary team.

  • Experience producing shoots and interviewing experts on camera.

  • Available to work a flexible schedule.

  • Experience making quick decisions under deadlines and a high-pressure newsroom environment.

Applications without links to video portfolios/work samples will not be considered.

This position is represented by the NewsGuild of NY.

REQ-018253

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