Beacon Multimedia Editor

Job Title

Beacon Multimedia Editor

Stipend

$3000/year

Duties and Responsibilities

• This position is open to all UP students. However, preference is given to applicants with relevant experience
• Plays leadership role as directed by adviser and editor-in-chief during Beacon Boot Camp training in August
• Oversees multimedia content in consultation with editors
• Ensures all photos and video have strong and compelling visual elements, high quality audio
• Supervises and assigns photographers and videographers, enforcing deadlines and ensuring all important information is provided (ie: photo and video captions, photo credits)
• Monitors visual and audio elements to ensure there’s no copyright infringement
• Coaches photographers and videographers to ensure high journalistic and aesthetic standards
• Facilitates closed captioning on all posted videos.
• Encourages and executes innovation in multimedia storytelling
• Advises Community Engagement Editor on Instagram to ensure posts are frequent, creative and effective
• Updates “multimedia elements on the website as directed by Editor-in-Chief
• In collaboration with section editors, keeps visual assignments updated on assignment “budget” (Google Doc)
• Coaches, critiques and encourages photographers and video journalists
• Strategizes feature coverage in collaboration with Living Editor
• Supervises check out/check in of photo, video and audio equipment
• Contributes two story ideas each week
• Takes photos and videos as assigned

General Qualifications and Requirements

• Must have at least a 3.0 GPA
• Understands photojournalism (telling a story with photos and/or video)
• Is proficient at a range of digital tools (Photoshop and other editing software for photos and video)
• Is insatiably curious, creative and proactive about learning
• Is a good listener as well as a natural leader
• Is dependable, considerate, ethical and emotionally mature
• Does not shy away from a challenge
• Can manage peers in a quasi-professional setting, holding them accountable
• Manages time well and make deadlines; thrives on a busy schedule
• Manages stress well, including short deadlines
• Consumes journalistic and other digital media regularly for ideas and inspiration
• Keeps up with current events, pop culture and UP student culture
• Has a good sense of humor, knows how to generate “fun” content
• Is a go-getter, strives for excellence, naturally goes above-and-beyond what’s expected
• Collaborates and communicates well in a team setting
• Is open to instruction

Time Commitment and Availability

• Attends staff meetings Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:40 unless there is a conflict with a class and the editor-in-chief approves the absence in advance. Beacon staffers are strongly discouraged from registering for classes that meet during those times.
• The person in this position makes up part of The Beacon Editorial Board. In addition to Tuesday and Thursday all-staff meetings, Editorial Board members also have a required meeting on Wednesday nights at 7.
• Attends Beacon Boot Camp training in August