Visual journalist (Photography and Video)
Location: Roanoke, Virginia
Description: InsiderJobBoard.com is at present looking to employ Visual journalist (Photography and Video) right now, this occupation will be situated in Virginia. Detailed specification about this occupation opportunity please give attention to these descriptions. The Roanoke Times | roanoke.com is seeking a full-time visual journalist to
produce video, photos and multimedia for the n! ewspaper, our redesigned Web site
and other digital platforms.
We are looking for someone who has a passion for community-based storytelling
and embraces using new media in their reporting. We want someone who feels
comfortable tweeting a spot news photo from the scene one day, producing a video
on local elections the next and spending the third day going deep for an
enterprise multimedia project.
You will cover a wide range of daily assignments and be expected to find and
produce daily and in-depth stories in a digital-first newsroom. You will have
flexible hours and need to respond quickly to breaking news. Most importantly,
we are looking for someone with a dynamic personality who can work
collaboratively as part of a creative team.
The Roanoke Times has a newsroom of more than 75 journalists and is the
state’s largest-circulation newspaper west of Richmond. We consistently rank
in the top five news! papers in NPPA’s Region 3 for clip wins and have won
num! erous state and national awards for our online and multimedia storytelling.
Like most newspapers across the country, our newsroom has gotten smaller and
more efficient, but there are great opportunities to shoot the projects and
issues that matter.
Last year, judges in SND’s Best of Digital News Design said this about our
work: “Roanoke’s coverage may not be able to be as broad as national or
international news organizations but it is deep within their community. The
multimedia storytelling explores highly personal issues and forces viewers to
confront issues that rarely surface in their daily lives.â€
Apply to online to join our team. Please provide links to your Web site and/or
photography portfolio and video work.
Minimum skills and qualifications:
- Four-year college degree required with at least one years’ experience at a
- Demonstrated experience shooting and editing video.
- Strong photography portfolio.
- Demonstrated ability to write descriptive and accurate photo captions on
- Sound traditional news judgment and ethics.
- Adept with technology required to fill duties, such as Final Cut video editing
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This occupation will be opened on: Thu, 23 May 2013 21:02:10 GMT
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