Job Description
About the position
- Responsibilities
- Video editing and color correction of news, enterprise and investigative videos featuring reporters from across the newsroom.
- Collaborate with video journalists and producers in the pre/post production process, including writing, structure and creative execution.
- Deliver top-notch product under intense deadline pressure, and without the need for direct supervision, continuous editorial guidance, or task management.
- Work across a range of stories with various newsroom desks including culture and styles, often juggling multiple projects.
- Work with animators to incorporate animation, motion graphics and house design styles into videos.
- Experiment with different formats of vertical and mobile visual storytelling.
- Guiding junior staff on edits as needed.
- 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.
- Requirements
- 8+ years of multimedia storytelling, video editing and production experience at a major news video outlet and/or production company.
- Strong digital video editing background.
- Expertise in Adobe Premiere and Creative Suite.
- Strong audio editing, mixing and fixing skills for video.
- Proven ability to craft stories, own video research for a project and edit a video with oversight from managers and senior staff.
- Thorough knowledge of current events, with experience covering news.
- Conceive and create fresh original videos related to the news.
- Must have an impressive portfolio of video editing primarily for digital or broadcast.
- Nice-to-haves
- Experience Animating and editing animations in Adobe After Effects.
- Bring a digital first mindset to editing on-platform and for social media.
- Familiarity with the latest video editing techniques and technologies.
- The ability to make quick decisions under intense deadlines in a high-pressure newsroom setting.
- A foundational knowledge of legal, ethical, copyright and usage issues for visuals.
- Well-versed in the world of social and digital media, with a keen eye on what competitors are doing and what new tools are being used.
- Willingness to work evenings and weekends.
- Benefits
- Diversity and inclusion initiatives
- Equal Opportunity Employer
- Reasonable accommodations for applicants
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