Responsibilities
- Adapt the best of The Times' journalism for social and off-platform audiences, including bespoke design tailored from digital and print presentations.
- Tell stories visually in card form with various media assets, including photo, video, graphics, illustration and graphic design.
- Draft and copy edit text, including headlines, captions and narrative text on visuals.
- Demonstrate excellent news judgment.
- Demonstrate grasp of signals from mainstream and emerging social channels.
- Collaborate with a team of social and audience editors to identify and cover breaking news, features, series, exclusives and investigative news, interpreting data and signals to know what pieces are the right fit for off-platform audiences.
- Collaborate with visual editors from photo, graphics, digital news design, video and the home page to create high quality off-platform visuals.
- Experiment with different forms of vertical and mobile visual storytelling, specifically with video.
- Train social editors and other editors in the newsroom on best practices for creating social visuals, and edit the work they create.
- Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
Basic Requirements
- 4+ years of multimedia storytelling and production experience.
- Experience in social media or digital journalism for a news organization.
- Demonstrated experience creating presentations that intelligently incorporate audio, video, still images and text.
- Strong skills with Figma and Adobe Premiere, Illustrator, Photoshop and After Effects.
- Strong news and editorial judgment.
- Visual design skills β a clear grasp of typography, layout, color, motion, and behavior.
- Deep understanding of all mainstream and some emerging social channels.
Preferred Requirements
- Experience meeting deadlines and operating in a daily, unpredictable news production environment.
- Experience working collaboratively with members of a mixed-media team.
- Open to working a flexible schedule that may include nights and weekends.
- Experience making quick decisions under deadlines and a high-pressure newsroom environment.
- Strong writing and editing skills, and knowledge of Times style or the ability to absorb and apply it quickly.
