Weekend Staff Editor, Social Visuals

The New York Times is continuing to expand its presence across social media platforms. The Social Visuals team's core mission is to convey important news coverage and strong visual stories across the depth and breadth of the paper's report, showcasing the expertise of Times journalists, sharing urgent news updates, and elevating the most compelling stories to growing social audiences.

The Times is looking for a creative Staff Editor to focus on visual storytelling and production on weekends, working on daily news, features, enterprise, and investigative projects. This is a Thursday through Sunday position based in New York, with regular attendance in the office two days each week; there may be some flexibility to work remotely per departmental guidance.

Responsibilities

• Adapt the Times' journalism for social and off-platform audiences, including bespoke design tailored from digital and print presentations.
• Tell stories visually in card form using photo, video, graphics, illustration, and graphic design.
• Draft and copy edit text, including headlines, captions, and narrative text on visuals.
• Demonstrate excellent news judgment and a grasp of signals from mainstream and emerging social channels.
• Collaborate with social and audience editors to identify and cover breaking news, features, series, exclusives, and investigative news.
• Collaborate with visual editors from photo, graphics, digital news design, video, and the home page.
• Experiment with vertical and mobile visual storytelling, specifically video.
• Train social editors and other newsroom editors on best practices for social visuals.
• Report to the Social Visuals Editor.

Basic Requirements

• 4+ years of multimedia storytelling and production experience.
• Experience in social media or digital journalism for a news organization.
• Demonstrated experience creating presentations that incorporate audio, video, still images, and text.
• Strong skills with Figma and Adobe Premiere, Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects.
• Strong news and editorial judgment, and a clear grasp of typography, layout, color, motion, and behavior.
• Deep understanding of mainstream and some emerging social channels.

Applications without links to work samples will not be considered. This role is represented by the NewsGuild of NY. The annual base pay range is $113,945.85 to $115,000 USD. The New York Times is an equal opportunity employer.