Digital Video Producer – Casual Worker

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Create a variety of high-quality, timely, and platform-appropriate videos for Newsweek’s website, social media outlets, and YouTube.

• Identify, source, and produce compelling visual content that enhances Newsweek’s journalistic offerings.

• Quickly respond to breaking and trending news while anticipating visual needs.

• Monitor agency feeds, official sources, social media, and additional platforms for footage and emerging visual narratives.

• Edit videos in formats led by reporters, voiceovers, captions, and soundbites.

• Accurately verify, label, credit, and ingest footage into Newsweek’s systems.

• Optimize videos for format, length, pacing, framing, captions, and editorial angles across various platforms.

• Collaborate with the Newsdesk, social team, reporters, and editors on video-centric coverage.

• Exercise editorial judgment and conduct fact-checking to ensure accuracy, fairness, clarity, and journalistic integrity.

• Organize assets and project files, providing handover notes between producers and shifts.

• Meet tight deadlines and adapt flexibly in a fast-paced digital newsroom environment.

• Carry out other reasonable tasks required to fulfill business needs.

• Report directly to the Deputy Managing Editor.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience in producing and editing video for a respected, fast-paced digital newsroom, broadcaster, or media organization.

• Demonstrated ability to identify, source, edit, and publish multiple video stories daily to a high standard.

• Strong news judgment and comprehension of how video enhances digital journalism.

• Proficiency with Adobe Premiere Pro or similar professional video-editing software.

• Experience in producing video content for websites, social media platforms, and YouTube.

• Solid understanding of video formats and the ability to adapt content for different platforms and audiences.

• Experience in sourcing, verifying, labeling, and crediting footage from agencies, social media, official feeds, and third-party sources.

• Strong skills in scripting, caption-writing, and visual storytelling.

• Ability to work accurately and calmly under tight deadlines, including during significant breaking news events.

• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

• Capacity to organize assets, manage multiple assignments, and provide clear production handovers.

• Strong understanding of media law, copyright, sourcing best practices, and ethical journalism.

• Desirable: proficiency with Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Canva, Firefly, Flourish, Google Earth Studio, or similar creative tools.

• Desirable: experience in creating motion graphics, maps, data visualizations, or other supporting visual elements.

• Desirable: experience filming original content and arranging remote or in-person interviews.

• Desirable: experience advising reporters on filming, scripting, and gathering materials for video.

• Desirable: familiarity with content management systems, YouTube publishing tools, and social media publishing platforms.

• Desirable: understanding of audience analytics and how performance data can guide video formats and coverage decisions.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working days and hours determined on an ad-hoc basis.

• Option for employees based in London to work from the London office.

• An inclusive, equitable, and respectful workplace.

• Equal opportunity employment.