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Job Description: SVJ Features
The Wall Street Journal is seeking a senior video journalist to join its Features video team based in New York.
In this role the senior video journalist will prioritize booking newsmakers CEOs and industry leaders for standalone interviews and feature videos. Ideal candidates are confident and proactive producers who can create highquality videos around engaging interviews.
Top candidates will have a professional background in video journalism with proven experience cultivating relationships with sources booking highprofile interviews working with talent and commanding shoots. Because this is a global news operation candidates need to be effective communicators with solid news judgment and excellent interpersonal skills.
All interested candidates should submit a cover letter clearly outlining how their skills and experience meet or exceed the key candidate requirements. Please include links to five videos that demonstrate your ability to book newsmakers and engaging characters for interview segments and feature stories.
The role will report to the Executive Producer of the Features & Explainers team.
Primary responsibilities:
Identify and pitch a diverse engaging slate of interview subjects for both shortterm and longterm projects
Develop and maintain key relationships within core industries; handle outreach and aggressively pursue interviews
Conduct indepth preinterviews and research and help prepare thoughtful engaging questions for the interviewer
Lead shoots confidently in the studio and field. Includes managing talent and PR reps making assertive splitsecond decisions and troubleshooting issues.
Craft strong scripts with solid structures engaging visual scenes and thorough fact checks; apply feedback accordingly in rewrites
Collaborate regularly with top WSJ reporters and editors across a variety of coverage areas to identify and produce impactful interviews that are visually distinctive and of interest to the WSJ audience
Manage multiple projects at various stages of production and maintain a pipeline of work that includes features stories and standalone interviews
Experiment with different innovative storytelling techniques and formats
Ensure all journalistic and legal standards are followed at all times
Ability to work long hours and weekends both as part of a oncall weekend rotation and as news developments may warrant
Complete additional duties as assigned
Qualifications:
5 years experience booking and working with highprofile subjects preferably at a toptier news organization
A proven ability managing every aspect of video production from start to finish delivering highquality results efficiently and often under tight deadlines
Effective communicator with exceptional writing skills and careful attention to detail
Strong organizational and timemanagement skills
Team player who has ease working with freelancers senior leadership and talent
A deep understanding of and interest in The Wall Street Journals core topic areas
Demonstrated experience with multiple camera setups including but not limited to the Sony FX and FS lines and/or the Canon C500 or C300
Professionallevel understanding of Adobe Suite with expertise in Premiere and basic knowledge of After Effects Photoshop and Illustrator
Business Area:
Dow Jones News WSJJob Category:
Editorial/JournalismUnion Status:
Union rolePay Range: $125000 $145000We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidates experience industry knowledge location technical and communication skills and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.Payforperformance is a key element in our strategy to attract engage and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary for bonus eligible roles targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.For benefits eligible roles in addition to cash compensation the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package with a variety of physical health retirement and savings caregiving emotional wellbeing transportation and other benefits including elective benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..Required Experience:
Senior IC
Full-Time