Fellowship -- Visual Investigations Reporter

Join the 2023 New York Times Fellowship class as a member of the Visual Investigations team in our Video department. Do you have an innate curiosity and a need to dig deeper? Are you proficient at digital research, mining social media and using the web to connect dots that reveal a bigger story? Are you adept at analyzing visual content from satellite imagery, eyewitness videos, and airplane and ship trackers? Spend a year with the award-winning Visual Investigations team. The fellow will work alongside reporters, cinematographers, video editors and motion designers to break investigative stories and cover the biggest news of the day. The fellow will produce compelling, explanatory documentary and breaking-news videos. Prospective fellows should be proficient in verifying user-generated content and be familiar with open source intelligence techniques. Experience in script writing and video production is a plus. The ideal candidate will drive story ideas, be able to work autonomously and exercise sound news judgment. This program is for early-career journalists. Applicants with more than five years of full-time, professional journalism experience beyond school will not be considered. The most competitive candidates will be college graduates or postgraduates or career pivoters of any age who have had multiple internships or equivalent experience in open-source intelligence and related fields.