TYT

TYT is a unique, politically-progressive digital media company. Driving positive change is the TYT mission, and Hope is a TYT core value. TYT is integrating political and social change into its business model. TYT believes that the TYT audience community, working together, can revive democracy and drive needed political and social change, resulting in increased audience enthusiasm and material support for TYT.

Job Description

The Community Director will engage the TYT audience online to direct their collective efforts to action campaigns in the real world. The Community Director will cultivate a community of viewers and listeners conversing and collaborating with each other. The Community Director will design projects that make specific impacts and then harness audience power to execute those projects with the objective of creating political and social change. Achieving positive change will stimulate a sense of optimism in the community and create a virtuous cycle in which TYT leads the community forward for change, in turn driving business objectives such as increased audience support for TYT through participation and membership. This position will require duties outside standard business hours for special programming, meetings, and events. The position will be in a remote or work-from-home capacity.

Responsibilities

• Transform the TYT audience into an engaged community and mobilize that community from online activism to real-life action, establishing specific tasks and accomplishing goals that will give people a sense of optimism that positive change can be made. Some tasks and goals will be crowd-sourced from social interactions on TYT products. The job must be performed with the intention to make discrete impacts.
• Develop a step-by-step tactical plan for change missions with readily achievable intermediate stages, direct the efforts of the community to execute the plan, and deliver the intermediary steps as impacts along the longer road to change.
• Stimulate and sustain a high-quality, moderated conversation on the TYT website discussion forum to foster a community experience.
• Curate user-generated content for distribution in programming, on social media, and other available channels to publicize impacts and motivate the community.
• Develop and implement processes to monitor speech and actions by the community, determine what speech and actions fall outside company standards and core values, and determine the proper response toward identified violations.
• Spread awareness of what TYT is doing in this space – broaden the reach, attract more supporters, drive traffic to TYT platforms, and give the team an opportunity to move people through the engagement ladder.
• Establish key performance indicators to measure the effectiveness of projects and campaigns in delivering impacts to quantify business outcomes for each supported community platform and track progress in achieving those KPIs.
• Track and evaluate the effectiveness of projects, campaigns, and impacts on moving people through the TYT engagement ladder.
• Collaborate with company departments for marketing, programming, engineering, and member services.
• Build and manage a larger community team (discussion moderators, volunteers, campaign organizers, digital promoters, community managers, etc.) as the change initiative scales up and support roles become necessary.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of the political, social, and media landscape in the United States and familiarity with the major social and political questions of the day.
• Supporter of progressive values and policies with a vision for how to achieve change.
• Experience organizing and motivating teams in politics, business, or social activism.
• Strong writing, organizational, and communication skills.
• Experience with digital strategy, social media, and online promotional tactics.
• Demonstrable ability to make things go “viral” on the Internet.
• Creativity to design plans to move an online audience to real-world action.
• Maximum work hours flexibility. Must be able to distribute a full week of working hours to be available at some time on all seven days, including early and late shifts.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field (ex: political science, sociology, psychology).
• Must have an optimistic attitude and enthusiasm for communicating and motivating people.
• Strong leadership skills, including planning and delivery, constructive communication, conflict-resolution, and strategic thinking.
• Technically proficient; interested and capable of learning new technologies.
• Experience utilizing data for project management.
• Ability to collaborate and create coalitions with organizations and online influencers.

The salary range for this position is between $80,000 and $100,000 based on experience and qualifications.

TYT

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.

Role: AP for ‘Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey’- investigating tips and videos sent to Dr. Richey, producing exclusive stories segments

Industry: Political / News

Job Duration: Part- time (25 hours) 12 weeks, potentially FT after 12 weeks

Job Location: Los Angeles, CA or remote from CA, PA, NJ, NY, DC, CT, VA, GA, OH, OR, MD, IL

*This candidate would be working alongside IND Producer and AP and supporting EP/Host Dr. Rashad Richey

*CANDIDATE MUST BE PROFICIENT TO EXPERT ON PREMIERE – mogrt manipulation, b-roll creation, SOT preparation, interstitial editing

Primary Responsibilities

CREATIVE / EDITORIAL

• Research, investigate, vet leads, videos, and tips as assigned by Dr. Richey for Exclusive stories to break on IND
• Fulfill specific research requests by Dr. Richey
• All reasonable requests to be delivered within the scope of investigative producing and deadlines as assigned by Dr. Richey
• Conduct phone calls for verification of information, file FOIA requests, conduct all due diligence in the investigation and vetting of exclusive stories
• Write summaries of investigation for Dr. Richey
• Go through ‘IND TIPS’ email to track potential leads, pitch to Dr. Richey and then pursue to verify, investigate and produce stories

• PRODUCTION
• Once story is approved to produce, edit SOTs, request graphics, lower thirds, and fully produce exclusive segments
• Coordinate exclusive segment production with EP, Producer and AP
• Gather visual and audio elements (Gfx, masters, stills, etc.) from News Agencies, Social Media or other News Outlets
• Coordinate / produce / create visual and audio elements of the show (Packages, VO’s SOT’s, Statistics, Graphics) required to build the exclusive reports
• Quality Control: ensuring videos edited meet quality requirements.

• POST-PRODUCTION
• QC publishing (title and thumbnails, descriptions, crossposting)
• Identify exclusive stories in tracking sheet so AD can track video views and performance

TYT is an equal opportunity Employer

TYT

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 [email protected] and put Associate Producer in the subject line.

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