FiveThirtyEight is in search of a momentary Video Producer to affix our staff full-time from mid-July by way of mid-November. This particular person will pitch, storyboard and edit movies about U.S. politics, filling an necessary position in our protection of the 2022 midterm elections.
The Video Producer will report back to and work with the Senior Video Producer to direct and edit a short-form video sequence that provides our viewers a deeper, data-informed understanding of American politics. They can even be chargeable for enhancing the video model of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, which comes out twice per week. Through the primaries, the second weekly episode is commonly filmed on Tuesday nights after election outcomes are available in, so the video producer should be open to working a shifted schedule at instances, which is able to embody some late nights.
The Video Producer will work intently with the remainder of FiveThirtyEight’s video staff; FiveThirtyEight reporters, visible journalists and replica editors; and the graphics staff from ABC Information Digital. It is a U.S.-based place, and work may be performed remotely or out of our New York Metropolis workplace. Candidates ought to be capable of work 40 hours per week on an Japanese time zone schedule. To use, please ship a résumé and two clips by Sunday, June 19 to anna.rothschild@abc.com with the topic line “Non permanent Video Producer.”
Primary {Qualifications}:
- Proficiency in Adobe Premiere Professional
- Capability to script and storyboard
- Expertise working in a fast-paced surroundings on a good deadline
- Expertise with multi-cam enhancing
- Capability to speak about visible fashion and supply considerate, constructive suggestions to animators and different collaborators
- Stable information judgment
- Common information of and curiosity in U.S. electoral politics
- An curiosity in information journalism
Most well-liked {Qualifications}:
- Expertise working in a newsroom
- Proficiency in Adobe After Results and Illustrator
- Capability to mild a studio shoot
- Expertise filming with a Canon C300
- Expertise directing a distant movie crew
- Expertise enhancing a multi-guest podcast video
