The New York Times
Senior Video Journalist, Reporter Video
$125K–$152K
New York, NY · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 7, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of multimedia storytelling, video editing, and production experience at a major video outlet or production company.
About the job
Produces, edits, and publishes short-form vertical videos with New York Times reporters, translating news, features, and investigations into engaging visual journalism.
What you'll do
- Script, produce, edit, and publish vertical video series; oversee cinematographers, editors, and other collaborators.
- Identify and develop news and enterprise stories, and work with visual editors to create formats that reach new audiences.
- Collaborate with newsroom colleagues and video leaders to ensure work meets newsroom standards and deadlines.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of multimedia storytelling, video editing, and production experience at a major video outlet or production company.
- Experience creating original videos incorporating audio, video, still images, graphics, animation, and text.
- Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud.
- Excellent news judgment and ability to work with reporters and colleagues to shape newsgathering or investigations into engaging videos.
Nice to have
- Video editing with Adobe Premiere; design and animation experience with Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects.
- Advanced current-events knowledge, breaking-news coverage experience, or experience producing shoots and interviewing experts on camera.
Pay
$124,979.94 — $152,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Premiere, Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects
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