News Producer, Video

Job Description

Your New CNN Role…

CNN is hiring a multiplatform video producer to join its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong – with a strong focus on US domestic news.

The successful candidate will thrive in a pressurized deadline-driven environment, covering the big, important stories of the day with accuracy and speed.

Working as part of a diverse, highly collaborative video team at the forefront of CNN's visual storytelling, the successful candidate will serve as a vital link in CNN's follow-the-sun operation to ensure consistent, multiplatform coverage around the clock.

The successful candidate will share our insatiable appetite for breaking news and chasing fast-moving stories across time-zones, while helping to drive domestic coverage throughout the US overnight hours.

From civil unrest to natural disasters, the successful candidate will respond in real-time to breaking events, identifying, gathering, and clearing video content, as well as editing and producing video for audiences around the world across multiple digital and broadcast platforms.

The successful candidate must have strong editorial judgment and demonstrated versatility.

The Daily...
• Produce and/or edit video with CNNs diverse audiences in mind
• Identify, gather, and clear video content for creative use across video-first platforms
• Communicate with teams across CNN, including those in the field
• Vet key video, audio, and image elements, while ensuring all content is compliant legally and consistent with CNN standards and practices by partnering with teams who oversee these functions
• Comfortable switching between US and international news priorities, depending on needs
• Identify and communicate video editorial quickly and clearly to all platforms

Qualifications & Experience...
• Proven editorial experience within the digital media industry
• A real editorial drive with a deep knowledge, passion and interest for US and international news
• A track record for creativity and innovation and the production of distinctive multiplatform content in coordination with other departments/teams
• Ability to juggle various priorities and execute against tight deadlines. A track record of collaborating in a deadline-driven news environment
• Exposure to working across different time zones and have a strong understanding of different cultures and sensitivities
• Flexibility and open mindfulness to operate in a fast-changing news environment
• A curiosity to keep learning, to think critically and a strong desire to make CNN's coverage innovative, distinctive, and reflective of the world we cover

Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

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