Fellow, News Video

The role

The News Video fellow will serve as a video producer for the daily news and breaking news team. You will produce videos for the Watch tab and provide video coverage for the live journalism team.

What you will do

• Research and develop news stories for video
• Source relevant footage from social media, archives and news wires
• Help manage source material, 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 journalistic independence

Required qualifications

• 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
• Ability to work with colleagues and reporters to synthesize newsgathering and/or investigations into a tight, informative and engaging video

Nice to have

• 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

• Variable pay such as an annual bonus and restricted stock
• 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

Before you apply

• Must be authorized to work in the United States
• Will not sponsor work visas
• Upload a résumé, cover letter, and a link to a portfolio of your work
• You may apply to only one fellowship position per year
• Vetting process can take eight weeks or more

About the company

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world through independent journalism.