Visuals Editor, KUT/KUTX, Moody College of Communication

Location: Austin, Texas, United States | Employment Type: Full time

About the role

The Visuals Editor works collaboratively across teams at KUT/KUTX/Texas Standard and within the Texas Newsroom network to develop visual stories consistent with the stations’ and public media's mission and style. A connector of people and ideas, this individual upholds and furthers KUT/KUTX’s mission to cover varied communities in Central Texas and beyond. This is a mentor and passionate individual who will lead training efforts in visual storytelling across the station and coach the multimedia team to produce compelling stories.

Responsibilities

• Develops new and innovative ways to tell visual stories consistent with KUT/KUTX's mission and style.
• Turns complex issues into compelling visual stories that clearly communicate key themes and concepts through photos, videos (short and long-form), galleries, and other visual content for KUT News, Texas Standard and KUTX music.
• Plans coverage and assigns work within the Multimedia team.
• Conveys visual storytelling needs not only with the visuals team but also non-visual production colleagues to help solve problems.
• Collaborates with digital teams on the best way to present visual stories on KUT and KUTX digital platforms and social media.
• Follows trends and developments in social media in collaboration with audience editors.
• Active participant in the news decision process at KUT News and Texas Standard.
• Plans visual coverage of Studio 1A live sessions, pop-up music sessions, music festivals, and other public-facing events for KUTX and NPR Music.
• Ensures that all content produced by the multimedia team meets KUT/KUTX standards of accuracy, fairness, and balance, as well as our stations' style.
• Actively incorporates varied perspectives and voices into the editorial process.
• Identifies omissions in our coverage and suggests ways to mitigate them.
• Develops ongoing training program for staff and interns in photography basics, shooting video, online visual storytelling, and multimedia best practices.
• Coaches staff in innovative ways to tell visual stories.
• Works with programming, membership and development, and other departments to provide assets to showcase the station's work.
• Maintains our visual archive.

Requirements

• Seven years of experience as a photojournalist/videographer/multimedia producer, including at least five within a news organization.
• Experience in photographic coverage of daily and spot news, in-depth features, music and culture stories.
• Ability to produce content on tight deadlines.
• Ability to research story ideas, schedule and conduct interviews, and shoot compelling photos and videos.
• Experience covering live events, including multi-camera production work.
• Experience livestreaming.
• Knowledge of high-quality video capture and mastery of video-editing software.
• Knowledge and experience shooting multiple cameras and formats.
• Mastery of Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop, and/or equivalent software.
• Experience with social media and audience engagement.
• Experience with multimedia training or education.
• Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in production of multi-camera music videos.
• Experience with editorial decision-making within a news organization.
• Ability to speak Spanish.

Pay

Salary Range: $69,800 - $85,000 per year

Working Conditions

Standard office conditions