Producer, VWN

Job Description

VICE x News

The award-winning VICE News team develops and produces news content across VICE platforms and partner platforms. The digital news team focuses on short form storytelling and unique and creative ways to relay global news. This is a collaborative team that works together to make everyone's projects 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.

Role x You

As producer for Vice World News digital video, you will be developing and creating compelling series and one off documentaries for VICE's digital platforms including YouTube, Snapchat and Instagram. You constantly pitch and know how to find the right characters to tell the best version of your story. You are adept in the field and in the edit bay and work well with a team to get it all done.

In the short term… you will pitch stories that you find fascinating, tell us why, and then either produce them from the office with archival material, or go out into the world and make them. You will see your stories through from the original idea, to development, to shoots, and finally, the scripting, editing, and finishing process.

After 6 months in this role… You'll know exactly the kind of pitch that will get greenlit and you're making pieces you're passionate about every week.

And after a year.. You will have a lot of pieces under your belt, constantly pushing the limit and thinking differently, and training new members of the staff on how to do it the right way.

Qualifications

You have these:
• Minimum of 3 years experience doing stories from start to finish, carrying it from your pitch to field shoot, edit and delivery
• Experience making videos for digital platforms including YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok and Instagram
• Ability to develop and pitch unique story ideas and angles on a variety of subjects, with research to back it up
• Ability to gain access to sources and communities
• Ability to deliver scripts that need little to no edits
• Excellent news judgment
• Understanding of story arc and how to build characters, scenes, and moments
• Able to work efficiently and deftly in the field
• Ability to work independently and anticipate the needs of the team and company
• Able to work creatively with archival materials and shoots in the office or at home
• Excellent writing and script editing skills
• Collaborative team player with a positive attitude
• Able to work on tight deadlines
• Ability to work across a variety of formats including contributor-led and scripted films as well as original short documentaries.
• Experience working on tight deadlines
• Ability to mentor other team members

We'd love if you also had these:
• Expertise and sourcing in a specific beat, including extremism, trafficking, justice, climate or race
• Digital and/or documentary experience
• Fluency in another language
• Able to shoot A or B cam

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rv7qwj-3-16-76-43-42 in your application.