Title: Visuals Editor
Department: Global Press Journal
Status: Full-time
Location: San Francisco, CA
Compensation: DOE + Benefits package (health, vision, dental, 401k)
Start date: January 2, 2017
Please submit resume and cover letter to [email protected] by November 15th.
Why You Want This Job:
Because we’re changing the face of international journalism!
Global Press has a 10-year track record of producing exceptional journalism from the least-covered parts of the globe. Global Press aims to revolutionize the business of international journalism by creating multiple ethical, sustainable revenue streams, revitalizing core editorial processes to ensure accuracy and accountability and repairing the lack of gender and racial diversity that have plagued newsrooms since inception. Global Press is an employee-centered workplace that prioritizes employee wellness in a diverse, challenging, creative, humor-filled environment.
We are looking for an experienced, energetic, Visuals Editor who will work with Global Press journalists across the globe to create world-class journalism every day. The Visuals Editor works with a talented and dynamic group of global journalists everyday who submit hundreds of visuals each week. The Visuals Editor will lead the growing Visual Team at Global Press.
On a Typical Day at Global Press You Will:
- Receive and organize dozens of photos and videos from reporters around the world
- Effectively manage and meet multiple deadlines
- Work with editors, reporters and visual content providers to ensure that visuals are of the necessary quantity and caliber to serve diverse content needs across digital and social channels
- Read all Global Press stories to ensure visuals reflect the story angle
- Select, edit, and tone visuals and to work effectively with story text, using keen judgement to ensure visuals enhance the audience’s experience
- Collaborate with the Engagement Team to ensure visuals elevate stories, social postings and blogs to achieve maximum audience engagement
- Manage our team members’ equipment inventory, questions, needs and maintenance requests
- Work with editors and reporters to shoot supplementary visuals for behind-the-scenes and promotional materials
- Manage all captions and text accompanying slideshows and stand-alone images and ensure that all captions are fully copy-edited by relevant staff and in place for publication
- Coordinate with Global Press Institute training staff to identify training needs and opportunities for reporters
- Be familiar with all upcoming stories/projects to give feedback and create necessary visuals assignments to maximize quality and news value
- Work with syndication partners to identify visual content needs
- Be familiar with Lightroom, Photo Mechanic, Premiere, iMovie, Word and other software used to create content
- Work with IT team to research and identify best Digital Asset Management systems and workflows
- Communicate with global team members clearly and effectively
- Be inspired by the bravery and ingenuity of Global Press reporters
- Work hard, laugh hard and make a significant contribution to global journalism
- Be insanely curious and a life-long learner
Core Attributes:
Global Press is a diverse and thriving international media organization that seeks out team members who:
- Are equally committed to journalistic tradition and journalistic innovation
- Employ discipline, generosity and humor in their daily work
- Believe in the power of high-quality information and human stories to change our world
- Thrive in a collaborative environment where team members can be honest with one another and aim to be better today than they were yesterday
Qualifications:
The successful candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in a related field and a minimum of 3 years of visual editing experience. Candidates should have prior international and management experience. Foreign language skills are a plus. Exceptional written and oral communication skills are a must.
About Global Press
Global Press exists to create a more just and informed world by employing local journalists to produce ethical, accurate news coverage from the world’s least-covered places.
Rejecting the mainstream model of foreign correspondence, which deploys elite outsiders on short-term assignments, Global Press trains and employs a diverse population of journalists in the developing media markets where they live to produce context-rich, nuanced news coverage that provides local and global audiences with high-quality, professional news that elevates awareness and creates actionable opportunities for citizens.
Comprised of three brands that form a holistic social enterprise, Global Press is an international media company dedicated to reinventing both the craft and business of global journalism. Global Press operates a training program, Global Press Institute, an award-winning news publication, Global Press Journal, and an innovative syndication division, Global Press News Service.
Global Press aims to produce news from more than 100 countries, becoming the world’s leading news source from the developing world.
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