Sr. Manager, Visual Investigations

Your New Role...

The visual investigations senior manager is a highly skilled reporter/producer ready to help lead a new CNN team of reporters, producers, editors and animators. This team is tasked with producing groundbreaking original videos that use all the tools of open-source and data-driven reporting to expose wrongdoing and hold powerful people and institutions accountable.

Responsibilities

• Work with team members to identify reporting targets and stories, develop reporting plans, support production and scripting, and help ensure the quality and integrity of the reporting and presentation.
• Collaborate with other team members inside and outside the unit including reporters, correspondents, senior producers, writers, and fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.
• Conduct deep-dive open-source research and verification, leveraging advanced digital forensic tools and methodologies.
• Conceive creative, dynamic graphics and oversee field assignment logistics, including permissions, security, and budgeting.
• Collaborate with animators, editors, data journalists, and other teams to visualize and elevate complex stories.
• Support story research and newsgathering, collaborating with unit leaders on story direction and focus.
• Strong scripting, storytelling and editorial skills, with a solid command of visual narrative techniques.
• Manage multiple high-impact investigative projects, balancing long-term initiatives with rapid-turn exclusives.
• Contribute to investigative strategy, proactively identifying emerging trends and opportunities for original reporting.
• Uphold and advance CNN’s journalistic standards, ethics, and commitment to impactful storytelling.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum of 8 years of production experience in the news television industry or digital video journalism, with investigative reporting experience a necessity.
• 3+ years of management experience leading producers, editors, or cross-functional teams.
• Must have strong news judgment as well as written, verbal, interpersonal communication, research, and production skills.
• Past reporting and field experience is an advantage.
• BA/BS in journalism, politics or a related field preferred or equivalent in experience.