Vertical Video Production Fellow (Summer 2024)
Business Insider is hiring a paid Video Producer fellow to join our Vertical Video team for six months. This person will be responsible for pitching, producing, and editing short-form content for publishing across social platforms and the Business Insider site.
This is a full-time position working 40 hours a week Monday - Friday.
Business Insider is for people who are driven, optimistic and always looking forward. Our mission is to inspire action through thought-provoking stories. We tell our audience what they want and need to know to improve their lives and the world with storytelling that is accessible, smart, sometimes unexpected, and always helpful. Our team members embody and uphold Business Insider’s three core values: we are all one team, we are effective, and we strive to get better every day.
The Business Insider Fellowship Program is for early career journalists who want to spend six months learning from a newsroom full of passionate, dedicated journalists. Fellows are assigned to teams and become experts in digital storytelling. They produce real work that is distributed to our audience of millions, and by the end of six months, they are prepared for the next phase of their journalism careers. This role requires you to work for 40 hours a week and can be fully remote.
The Role & Team:
As a fellow on the Vertical Video team, you will work with your team to create short-form videos that target our audience of optimistic, driven, and forward-looking thinkers who are fascinated by business, technology, and innovation. This is a remote role that reports directly to the Vertical Video team’s managers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Pitch, develop, and edit innovative short-form shows that cater to an audience interested in business, technology, and innovation.
- Source and interview subjects for stories and coordinate access to footage, including field shoots, shot lists, and online sourcing.
- Write outlines and scripts for each episode before editing.
- Edit down long-form episodes from across Business Insider’s shows and optimize them for vertical platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts.
The ideal candidate has:
- A passion for storytelling through video.
- Strong, demonstrable skills in Adobe Premiere. Proficiency in Illustrator, After Effects, and other Adobe software is a plus.
- Previous experience with writing and content creation (school publications are great!).
- An interest in vertical video and familiarity with digital and social media.
- A commitment to accuracy, fact-checking, and an understanding of objective reporting.
- The ability to hop on the phone or email sources when reporting out a story.
- The ability to work quickly and collaboratively with a fast-paced team.
- A background or interest in business and economics. This is not required but is a plus.
Additionally, all of our editorial fellows should have:
- A passion for digital storytelling and voracious reading habits
- Familiarity with digital and social media
- The ability to work quickly and collaboratively with a fast-paced team
- Proofreading and copyediting skills
- A love of Business Insider and our mission to serve readers with the information and inspiration they need in a way that’s accurate, fair, fast, and fun
Salary & Benefits:
- Fellows are paid $20 per hour (overtime when needed and approved)
- PTO and paid holidays
- Eligible for medical, dental, and vision benefits on 91st day of employment
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