TYT is America’s largest online progressive news network and the #1 most engaged news and politics network. The award-winning network is one of the top multi-platform online content creators, generating over 500 million views a month.
Most recently TYT received the Audience Honor in the Shorty Awards for News and Media. The Damage Report with John Iadarola was recognized with the People’s Voice Webby Award in News and Politics. Additionally, Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey was recognized as the fastest growing TV news show by the Hicks Evaluation group. In 2021, TYT received the Audience Honor in the Shorty Awards for Best in Live Event Coverage for their coverage of the 2020 Election. The Damage Report with John Iadarola was a 2021 Webby Honoree for Social Media Presence. Dr. Richey was recently awarded with the Global Icon Award by the Black Media Honors and was recognized with an award by the White House for his work with gang-affected and gang-affiliated youth and social advocacy.
Cenk Uygur was recognized by Mediaite on their list of Most Influential in News Media 2021. Host Ana Kasparian was named to the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 Media List and The Daily Dot’s 20 Women of YouTube list. The Young Turks was recognized with a Webby Honoree for News and Politics: Series and Channel, won the Audience Honor for Overall YouTube Presence in the 2018 Shorty Awards and the Webby People’s Voice Award for News and Politics – Series. Over the years, TYT has been recognized by the Streamys, Webbys, and Shorty Awards. The Young Turks was awarded the Imagen Vision Award and the Vote It Loud Fifth Estate: Champion in Media Award for Best in New Media in 2016. In 2015, The Young Turks was named to Variety’s FameChangers List (No. 7) and The Hollywood Reporter’s Next Gen List (No. 1 in the News category).
TYT includes owned and operated and partner shows such as The Young Turks, The Damage Report, Indisputable, and more.
TYT’s 24/7 programming is available on YouTube TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Xumo, Twitch, Comcast Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Flex, Samsung TV Plus, TCL, Local Now, FuboTV, and more.
TYT is also available as a podcast on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Amazon Music, and more.
Primary Responsibilities
PRODUCTION
- Writing lower thirds to accompany stories and interviews.
- Working with studio crew for on-the-fly labels and lower thirds
- Editing SOTs in compliance with TYT fair-use and licensing guidelines
- Assist with studio control room support (currently remotely) coordinating with technical director, stage manager, streaming tech, to ensure proper visuals appear in coordination with what hosts are discussing
- Working with and providing support on rundown, archives, and show daily doc.
- Looking for breaking stories/updates to stories during the show
- Share general production information and story links with guest hosts on applicable days
CREATIVE / EDITORIAL
- Daily Production Meeting- Suggest topics/pitching stories or general discussion and for individual buckets/franchise segments.
- Coordinating / producing / creating / proofreading / QCing visual and audio elements of the show (Packages, VO’s SOT’s, Graphics) requested by Producers to build the newscast.
- Providing research for stories and fact-checking for Executive Producer/Host.
- Developing new recurring and branded franchise segments.
- Coordinate editing procedures and distribute work to editors based on priorities.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS:
- Adobe Premiere – mogrt manipulation, b-roll creation, SOT preparation.
- Adobe Photoshop – ability to manipulate graphics / charts so they fit where required.
- Keeping up to date on analytics for the channel, adapting content strategy.
- Connecting with and briefing Skype guests before their segments.
- Contact between The Young Turks Production Team with graphics and editing departments.
- Quality Control: ensuring graphics and videos edited meet quality requirements.
- Gather visual and audio elements from News Agencies, Social Media or other News Outlets.
Education: College degree
Requirements: Excellent comprehension of political climate/current events and a passion for Progressive politics required. 1-2 years in production preferred.
*Los Angeles-based candidates preferred, but not required.
**Currently this position is remote, but may return to the studio.
TYT is a equal opportunity employer.
Please send resume to tytjobs@tyt.com and put Associate Producer in the subject line.
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