ProPublica

Video Editor

• Create video content that is grounded in ethical journalistic principles, standards and practices, and use editorial judgment to translate stories with the sensitivity, care and appropriate tone required of our investigations.
• Collaborate with reporters, editors, visual editors, audience team members and other staffers to identify and produce compelling video storytelling.
• Own the creative and technical production for videos from beginning to end, including writing and editing scripts, working with reporters and editors to gather visual assets, designing any as-needed still and motion graphics, and writing the social post captions.
• Serve as the on-screen narrator/host for videos, maintaining a voice and approach for explainer-type and host-led video content that is appropriate for ProPublica’s brand.
• Shoot and edit video in studio, remotely and in the field, ensuring high-quality production values.
• Identify and edit compelling media clips for video podcasts, live events, media appearances and more and adapt them into optimized formats for social platforms.
• Manage multiple projects in various stages of production, sometimes meeting tight deadlines.
• Monitor the editorial calendar and pitch ideas for social video content and packages.
• Define and maintain our workflow processes and systems to ensure a consistent production of video content.
• Track monthly video analytics reports that can help inform future optimization, strategy and more.
• Track evolving trends amid video platforms and their audiences and share insights with the team.

Social Video Producer