Senior Video Journalist, Reporter Video

Job Description

The New York Times is seeking a Senior Video Journalist to join their Reporter Video team. This temporary role involves producing, editing, and publishing short-form vertical videos featuring New York Times reporters. The ideal candidate will have experience covering politics, strong news sense, and video production skills.

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.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of multimedia storytelling, video editing and production experience 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.
• Facility in using photo, video, audio, graphics and animation in storytelling.

The New York Times offers:

• A hybrid work environment based in New York.
• Opportunity to work with world-class journalists.