About TIME:
TIME is a global media brand built on 98 years of unparalleled trust and authority, with an audience of more than 100 million people worldwide across our platforms. Our team is collaborative, innovative, and committed to TIME’s mission of informing, guiding, and engaging our audience with groundbreaking in journalism, immersive experiences, and live events.
TIME is an equal opportunity employer. Our people drive the culture. Our culture drives the mission. Our mission drives the business. Our business impacts the world. An inclusive and diverse team not only makes our content and our products better but our workplace stronger. Equity, diversity, and inclusion are top priorities in our recruiting and hiring and our culture.
The Role:
Time is hiring an Associate Video Producer to help create compelling short-form documentaries and series for a variety of platforms, including social-first programming.
The successful candidate will be an integral part of this team, reporting to and working directly with the rest of the video team in a highly collaborative and creative environment.
Responsibilities:
- Research, pitch, produce, film and edit video as directed by senior department leadership.
- Collaborate with editors and reporters – staff and freelance – to identify key news stories and plan video coverage.
- Work with reporters and editors to produce videos and embed related video content in stories on the site.
- Assist in the production of video by pulling archival materials, conducting research and background reporting, subtitling, transcribing, creating SRTs, recording, archiving and other tasks associated with video production.
- Collaborate with the social media and audience team for promotion on off-site social platforms.
- Pitch and book live streams for site and social media.
- Strategize with team for on-site presentation of Time videos
- Collaborate with editors and reporters to identify key news stories and plan video coverage
Qualifications:
- 2-3 years of relevant video journalism experience.
- Must possess comprehensive knowledge of Adobe Premiere and a strong working knowledge of Photoshop, and collaborative tools like Google Drive and Airtable.
- Reporting, scripting, story development experience is key to this role as well as an ability to collaborate with colleagues in the newsroom.
- Ability to operate independently in the field when necessary.
- Sound news judgment and a strong eye for visual presentation
- Willingness to travel for on-location shoots
Preferred Qualifications:
- Field production/camera skills expected although this is not primarily a field-based role.
- Ability to set up a studio shoot, camera, audio, lighting, seamless, etc.
- Knowledge of how to use social media to find sources and seek out and distribute video
- Sound news judgement and curiosity about current events
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