Job description
Storyful is an equal opportunity employer
Job Description :
About Storyful
Founded by pioneering journalists as the first social media newswire, Storyful was created out of the need to break the news faster and edit social content to add vital context to news reporting. Acquired by News Corp in 2013, Storyful has evolved into a premium news, video and strategic intelligence partner for media, business leaders and marketing and communications professionals. Storyful’s mission is to provide trusted, cross-platform content and context in a complex online information environment.
For news clients, we are the definitive source for eyewitness news and viral videos, playing an integral role in newsrooms around the world. We pursue verifiable facts with the aim of providing deep context, and breaking news first. Storyful Intelligence delivers bespoke insights derived from unique access to cross-platform data and pioneering technology, contextualized by expert analysts. We translate online societal trends and decipher digital behaviors to inform strategic brand planning and mitigate reputational risk.
What You’ll Do
Newsrooms rely on Storyful to find both eyewitness videos and the people behind them, who lie closest to the heart of the story. With offices in New York, Dublin, London and Sydney, we work every day with leading newsrooms.
This role will work closely across our editorial team to discover and acquire timely news and viral video content in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate is passionate about social media and trending online content.
You will have a strong background in journalism and know how to apply those skills to user-created content. You will also excel at verifying social content, and have excellent editorial judgment about what marks out must-see user-generated footage.
The successful candidate will be responsible for not only discovering the key trending videos, but also managing the video acquisition process with content creators and eyewitnesses.
In this role, you’ll be trained on our industry-leading technologies and learn our processes for finding and verifying social media content from news events happening around the world.
Foreign language and video editing skills are preferred, but not essential for consideration. This role will require weekend and evening work.
Responsibilities
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Monitoring Storyful’s news feeds and proprietary tools for emerging videos that will be used daily by news organizations around the world
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Identifying and acquiring the key videos within any breaking or developing story
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Verifying images, posts, and videos from the social web
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Writing clean, concise and accurate copy for publication on the Storyful Newswire.
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Working to deadlines and set targets
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Work with an international editorial team to find contact information for content creators and following up directly with those involved in stories
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Manage the execution of licensing agreements with content creators, both by phone and via written outreach.
Required Experience & Qualifications
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A fluid, natural communicator who can write copy for publication.
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A self-starter who is plugged into current events around the world.
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Target-driven attitude
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Expert understanding of content discovery on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok etc.
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Ability to spot emerging stories on social media, find the source, and verify the content
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Preferred but not required: language abilities and video editing skills are an advantage, but not mandatory
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An excellent command of English is essential and comfort in speaking on the phone to clients, sources and video uploaders is a requirement.
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Phone skills are essential to the role
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Sales experience is beneficial
Location: NYC
Work Arrangement: Hybrid - 3 days per week
Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets
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Job Category:
STFL - Editorial
Pay Range: $38,000 - $80,000
We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.
Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.
For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.
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