Digital Video Editor, News

Job Description

DIGITAL VIDEO EDITOR : NEWS
Overview

The award-winning VICE News team develops and produces news content across VICE platforms and partner platforms. The news team focuses on in-depth longform storytelling and unique and creative ways to relay topical daily news. This is a collaborative team that works together to make everyone's stuff better. We believe in listening to everyone's ideas and bringing on a diverse group of people who love working together to make the best, most unique news content out there.

VICE NEWS is seeking an experienced Video Editor for a staff position on the Global Digital Video News Team based in the U.S . The Video Editor for News will have fast turnover and scene-driven documentary experience.

The main responsibilities of the role will be to work closely with in-house production and post-production teams to complete video and multimedia projects for a variety of News programs for our website.

The ideal candidate will have a high level of finishing skills including graphics integration and audio editing. Candidates must be adaptable to edit either breaking news or story driven long-lead packages. The editing process is collaborative, involving the production team, and is script-based. You will frequently be on tight-turnarounds or faced with unexpected changes due to the nature of news.

Candidates should also be aware this is a Local 700 union, five-day week role in a fast paced work environment. Experience and interest in current affairs is highly valued.

Qualifications:
• 2-5 years of editing experience in a network news environment or with documentary series/features.
• Experience or preference to work collaboratively with producers, senior producers and executives.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, deadline driven environment.
• Able to work creatively with archival materials.
• Able to make creative editing decisions based on written scripts or input from producers and executives.
• Able to work closely with our motion graphics team to create compelling ways to display data and animations on screen.
• Fluent in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Creative Suite, including templates and project sharing.
• Experience with media asset management systems.

We'd love it if you can also:
• Create basic graphics in After Effects and Photoshop.
• Shoot on an FS7 (or equivalent)
• Speak a second language

Working at VICE

VICE offers comprehensive benefits and compensation package that is commensurate with experience and abilities. VICE production staff is represented by the Writer's Guild of America East, a labor union representing writers in motion pictures, television, cable, digital media and broadcast news. Additional VICE benefits include but are not limited to trans-inclusive benefits, fertility benefits, and tuition reimbursement. We also have dog-friendly days, bagel Fridays, and the occasional drag show in our conveniently located Williamsburg office. Day-to-day you can enjoy a rooftop garden full of edible produce (in the summer), beverages, healthy snacks and the opportunity to make the work of a lifetime if you're into that sort of thing, which we hope you are.

VICE prioritizes the ideas and people that other media companies miss. We believe that innovation is a direct result of diverse, inclusive cultures so we don't just ''tolerate'' differences, we celebrate it and see it as essential to our staff, culture, and business.

Equal Employment Opportunities: VICE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that strives to create and maintain a workplace that celebrates inclusion and diversity. At VICE, we understand that inclusion and diversity are major benefits to our employees, our readers and viewers, and our company culture. We treat all applicants and employees fairly without regard to age, alienage or citizenship status, color, disability, gender, gender identity and expression, marital status and partnership status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion/creed, sexual orientation, arrest or conviction record, caregiver status, credit history, unemployment status, salary history, status as a victim of domestic violence, stalking and sex offenses, status as a veteran or active military service member, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

VICE requires that all employees have proper authorization to work in the U.S. Should an applicant require employment sponsorship, VICE will determine, in its sole discretion, whether such sponsorship will be provided.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with the New York City Fair Chance Act or other applicable laws.

VICE Media Group is not partnering with agencies nor accepts unsolicited resumes and will not be responsible for any fees or expenses related to such unsolicited resumes and/or applicants.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gx169z-3-138-141-202-42 in your application.