Video Journalist, International

The role

You will produce and edit video stories with multimedia correspondents. You will work with a multi-disciplinary team to create new approaches to international reporting in video.

What you will do

• Write, produce, edit and publish videos with hybrid correspondents.
• Devise new approaches to digital video storytelling both on and off platform.
• Work with correspondents to create a playbook for how to cover a region or beat in video.
• Collaborate closely with International editors, correspondents and video colleagues.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of journalistic independence and the mission to seek the truth.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of video storytelling, video editing and production experience at a news organization.
• A strong portfolio.
• Excellent writing, editing and communication skills.
• Broad knowledge of current events and news.
• Deep curiosity about video habits and users and platforms.
• Hands-on experience in the trenches of production, including editing, shooting and field production.
• The ability to edit quickly and accurately with Adobe Premiere.

Nice to have

• Experience covering international news.
• Foreign language fluency.
• Strong experience with archival research, including sourcing and clearing user-generated video content.
• Fluency with animation and motion graphics as an integral part of your script writing process.
• Strong organizational skills, including the ability to manage field crews and hire and manage freelancers when necessary.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines and adapt to change within an unpredictable news and production environment.
• A record of working with teams of journalists in difficult field assignments.
• High creative standards and a drive to push work to its best possible form.

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

Before you apply

• Submit your resume, cover letter and link to your portfolio.
• Submit your own work and do not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.

About the company

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. It has a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries.