Job Opportunity: Digital Media Producer with The Jewish Daily Forward

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The Jewish Daily Forward seeks a Digital Media Producer to join their office in New York City. Jewish background or knowledge is not required. But a hunger to tell the stories of a changing community is absolutely indispensable, along with crackerjack video production and editing skills.

This is a full time job with benefits. 

Job Description

The producer creates, finds, reports and edits multimedia stories for forward.com, the leading website for journalism for and about the American Jewish community. The producer records and edits video and audio stories both independently and in collaboration with reporters and editors, and also contributes to The Forward‘s journalistic products by posting stories, making and cropping photos, and managing social media accounts. This position reports to the director of digital media.

Qualifications

The digital media producer must have:

  • Journalism background with extensive experience in video reporting and editing, using HD-SLR cameras, recording off-camera audio and setting up studio and field lights.
  • Expertise and facility with Final Cut Pro 7 and standard transcoding, exporting and compression methods suitable for online video.
  • Familiarity with studio audio mixers and audio editing software such as Logic Pro or Pro Tools.
  • Experience using photo cropping and manipulation tools such as Lightroom and Photoshop, and with graphics production and color correction.

Knowledge of Jewish issues and interest in the American Jewish community are helpful, as are Hebrew and/or Yiddish language skills. Bachelor’s degree preferred and at least two years job experience required.

Apply

Send cover letter, including links to 3 short published videos you have made recently, and resume to Dan Friedman (dfriedman@forward.com).

Visit The Forward’s employment page for more information.