Visual Deputy Editor, Science

Responsibilities

• Engage deeply with Science coverage; help determine its visual direction and raise ambitions for visual journalism across news and enterprise.
• Drive Science’s visual journalism by guiding the development of stories that make smart use of video, photography, illustration and graphics.
• Work with editors and reporters, helping them to develop ambitious projects.
• Work with the Video team to identify opportunities for short-form linear video that features a variety of reporting on the Science desk.
• Collaborate with the Graphics team to help determine the possibilities for graphics and multimedia storytelling, including visualization.
• Determine integration of video, photography, audio, and animations
• Initiate and manage specific lines of news and enterprise coverage.
• Conceive, commission and edit story assignments in a variety of story forms, ranging from breaking news to high-impact opportunities.
• Establish desk-wide goals for visual storytelling fluency.
• Guide Science editors and reporters toward greater fluency when it comes to conceptualizing, editing and executing a variety of story formats.
• Collaborate closely with video, photo and graphics editors, designers and art directors across the newsroom and be point of contact for larger multimedia efforts.
• Display a strong familiarity with competitors and new challenges and opportunities created by the changing media landscape.
• Display a strong commitment to journalistic independence and a strong commitment to the Times’s mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of relevant professional experience.
• Excellent news judgment and visual creativity while ensuring the accuracy, clarity and readability of the material.
• Demonstrated record of producing high-level visual journalism, with an emphasis on visualization, explanatory visuals, digital design, use of video, photos and other visual forms.
• Demonstrated ability to write clearly, and edit to sharpen the relationship between visuals and copy.
• Demonstrated ability to work on tight deadlines and to adapt to change in a daily, unpredictable news production environment.
• Strong communication and diplomatic skills, with the ability to clearly articulate the purpose of each story and the roles for each of the journalists making it.