Video Journalist

Are you a journalist immersed in the social web? Come work with the best in the business at Storyful, the world's leading social news and insights agency. Newsrooms rely on Storyful to find both eyewitness videos and the people behind them, who lie closest to the heart of the story. With offices in London, New York, Dublin and Sydney, we work every day with leading newsrooms, such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Al Jazeera and the Washington Post. This role will work closely across our editorial team to discover and acquire timely news and viral video content in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate is passionate about news, social media and trending online content. You will have a background in journalism and know how to apply those skills to user-created content. You will also excel at verifying social content, and have excellent editorial judgement about what marks out must-see user-generated footage. The successful candidate will be responsible for not only helping our team discover the key news videos dominating the day's news, but also managing the video acquisition process with content creators and eyewitnesses. In this role, you'll be trained on our industry-leading technologies and learn our processes for finding and verifying social media content from news events happening around the world. Foreign language and video editing skills are preferred, but not essential for consideration. This role will require weekend and evening work.