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New York Times - Victor, NY
posted 2 months ago
Full-time - Entry Level
Hybrid - Victor, NY
Publishing Industries
About the position
The New York Times is seeking a Fellow in News Video to join their 2025 fellowship program. This role focuses on producing news videos, verifying user-generated content, and developing digital video stories. The ideal candidate will have newsroom experience and a strong foundation in video production, including editing, shooting, and scripting. The position requires collaboration across the newsroom and a commitment to journalistic independence.
Responsibilities
- Research and develop news stories for video, including sourcing relevant footage from social media, archives, and news wires
- Help manage source material, and translation and transcription needs
- Verify the accuracy and authenticity of media reported across the web and social
- Contribute to video scripts and social copy
- Help coordinate the post-production process for video stories
- Participate in training and social programs designed for the fellowship
- Collaborate with colleagues across the newsroom
- Demonstrate support and understanding of journalistic independence and the mission to seek the truth.
Requirements
- No more than five years of full-time, professional journalism experience, excluding internships
- Strong news judgment
- Ability to research, compile and analyze media
- Familiarity with fact-checking and the ability to parse misinformation and disinformation, supporting findings with evidence
- Ability to work with colleagues and reporters to synthesize newsgathering and/or investigations into a tight, informative and engaging video.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in news and media verification and/or fact-checking
- At least one year of experience as an associate producer or producer in a professional video journalism environment
- Experience sourcing and verifying news video from social media
- Experience editing with Adobe Premiere
- Ability to adapt to change in an unpredictable news and production environment.
Benefits
- Full-time position
- Hybrid work environment with regular office attendance required
- Opportunity to work in a renowned newsroom
