Full-Time Editor

About This Role

The Editor will play a crucial role in ingesting, editing, and creatively enhancing content for news broadcast and digital posting, ensuring a seamless transfer of content daily, contributing to the mission of delivering transformative, engaging, and value-added content to the audience.

Responsibilities

• Ingest and edit video content into stories ready for broadcast and digital, ensuring a high level of quality and creativity
• Collaborate closely with reporters and photographers on sending file video and other content, understanding and utilizing File Transfer Protocols efficiently
• Manage the archival and retrieval of video assets, maintaining an organized and accessible digital library
• Assist in the production of content for digital, social, and multiplatform outlets, optimizing linear content for online publication
• Oversee media pushed into playback servers and manage system administration tasks, including monitoring media storage, routine maintenance, and troubleshooting
• Fulfill footage requests from various departments and external entities
• Edit content requiring additional production processes, such as blurring faces or adding audio bleeps, to meet broadcast standards

Requirements

• Working knowledge of news production editing techniques
• Proficiency with Edius and/or Adobe Premier
• Familiarity with contemporary television production techniques
• Ability to work under tight deadlines in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Flexibility to work a varied schedule, including early mornings, nights, weekends, and holidays
• Proficiency in using digital tools and content management systems
• Strong understanding of metrics for television and digital success
• Strong editorial judgment and mastery of journalistic ethics and libel laws

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, Communications, or a related field
• Prior years of experience in television news or a related field

Skills

* Required skills