At a glance
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- New York, NY
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship not offered
About the role
- The News Video fellow will serve in a video producer capacity on the daily news/breaking news team at The New York Times.
- This role focuses on producing videos for the Watch tab and producing video coverage on the live journalism team.
Responsibilities
- Research and develop news stories for video, including sourcing relevant footage from social media, archives and news wires
- Help manage source material, and translation and transcription needs
- Verify the accuracy and authenticity of media reported across the web and social
- Contribute to video scripts and social copy
- Help coordinate the post-production process for video stories
- Participate in training and social programs designed for the fellowship
- Collaborate with colleagues across the newsroom
- Demonstrate support and understanding of the value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to the mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world
Requirements
- No more than five years of full-time, professional journalism experience, excluding internships
- Strong news judgment
- Ability to research, compile and analyze media
- Familiarity with fact-checking and the ability to parse misinformation and disinformation, and support those findings with evidence
- Can work with colleagues and reporters to synthesize newsgathering and/or investigations into a tight, informative and engaging video
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in news and media verification and/or fact-checking
- At least one year of experience as an associate producer or producer in a professional video journalism environment
- Experience sourcing and verifying news video from social media
- Experience editing with Adobe Premiere
- Ability to adapt to change in an unpredictable news and production environment
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
- Company-matching 401(k) plan
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid vacation
- Paid sick days
- Paid parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional development programs
Workplace
- This is an in-office position and includes regular attendance in the office four days each week.
Skills
- Adobe Premiere
