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Senior Video Journalist, Reporter Video

The New York Times· Reporting
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New York, NY$125k - $152kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Video Journalist responsible for producing, editing, and publishing short-form vertical videos with NYT reporters on camera. Requires experience across global news, features, enterprise, and investigations, with strong storytelling, visual journalism, and ability to work under tight deadlines in an in-office NYC role.

Responsibilities

  • Script, produce, edit and publish a formatted series of vertical videos.
  • Oversee the work of cinematographers and editors and other collaborators.
  • Identify news and enterprise opportunities across our news report and develop stories that are journalistically powerful and visually transformative.
  • Collaborate with visual editors to develop video formats that bring our best journalism to new audiences.
  • Work closely with video leaders and other newsroom reporters to ensure our work follows newsroom standards.
  • Must be able to handle newsroom deadlines and juggle multiple projects at any given time.
  • Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
  • You will report to a Senior Producer on the Reporter Video team in NYC.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of multimedia storytelling, video editing and production experience at a major video outlet or production company
  • Experience creating original videos that incorporate audio, video, still images, graphics and text
  • Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Excellent news judgment and proven ability to work with colleagues and reporters to synthesize newsgathering and/or investigations into a tight, informative and engaging video
  • Experience creating original videos that intelligently incorporate audio, video, animation and text
  • Facility in using photo, video, audio, graphics and animation in storytelling

Skills

Required:Vertical video storytellingVideo editingAdobe Creative Cloud
Nice to have:Cinematography (optional)

Benefits

  • For roles in the U.S., eligible for variable pay such as an annual bonus and restricted stock
  • Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, F.S.A.s, a company-matching 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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