Weekend Staff Editor, Social Visuals
About The Position
The New York Times is seeking a creative Staff Editor to focus on visual storytelling and production on weekends. This role is part of the expanding Social Visuals team, which aims to convey important news coverage and strong visual stories across the breadth of The Times' report. The team utilizes expert design, photo editing, art direction, and social platform expertise to present visuals to audiences off-platform. The Staff Editor will work on daily news, features, enterprise, and investigative projects, bringing an understanding of editorial priorities and coordinating with journalists on visual teams. Key aspects of the role include delivering news quickly, building a regular publishing cadence, experimenting with formats, and optimizing workflows. The ideal candidate will have expertise in visual journalism and storytelling, including experience with social copy, graphic design, and photo editing, along with a deep understanding of modern digital practices and social media trends.
Requirements
- 4+ years of multimedia storytelling and production experience.
- Experience in social media or digital journalism for a news organization.
- Demonstrated experience creating presentations that intelligently incorporate audio, video, still images, and text.
- Strong skills with Figma and Adobe Premiere, Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects.
- Strong news and editorial judgment.
- Visual design skills — a clear grasp of typography, layout, color, motion, and behavior.
- Deep understanding of all mainstream and some emerging social channels.
Nice To Haves
- Experience meeting deadlines and operating in a daily, unpredictable news production environment.
- Experience working collaboratively with members of a mixed-media team.
- Open to working a flexible schedule that may include nights and weekends.
- Experience making quick decisions under deadlines and a high-pressure newsroom environment.
- Strong writing and editing skills, and knowledge of Times style or the ability to absorb and apply it quickly.
- Applications without links to work samples will not be considered.
Responsibilities
- Adapt The Times' journalism for social and off-platform audiences, including bespoke design tailored from digital and print presentations.
- Tell stories visually in card form with various media assets, including photo, video, graphics, illustration, and graphic design.
- Draft and copy edit text, including headlines, captions, and narrative text on visuals.
- Demonstrate excellent news judgment.
- Demonstrate grasp of signals from mainstream and emerging social channels.
- Collaborate with a team of social and audience editors to identify and cover breaking news, features, series, exclusives, and investigative news, interpreting data and signals to know what pieces are the right fit for off-platform audiences.
- Collaborate with visual editors from photo, graphics, digital news design, video, and the home page to create high-quality off-platform visuals.
- Experiment with different forms of vertical and mobile visual storytelling, specifically with video.
- Train social editors and other editors in the newsroom on best practices for creating social visuals, and edit the work they create.
- 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.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision benefits
- Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
- company-matching 401(k) plan
- paid vacation
- paid sick days
- paid parental leave
- tuition reimbursement
- professional development programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
