# Video Journalist

**Company**: Dow Jones
**Location**: NYC
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $85,000 - $110,000
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Video Journalist will create videos for MarketWatch and Barron’s that explain business news, markets, and personal finance topics with clarity, creativity, and personality.

You’ll be a hands-on storyteller who can take an idea from concept to publish: scripting, shooting, and editing your own work with a sharp sense of what performs on YouTube.

Responsibilities:

- Research, pitch, write and produce original short and long form video stories about business, personal finance, markets, technology, and the economy.

- Conduct interviews and write scripts that explain complex financial ideas in a clear, engaging and relatable way.

- Shoot and edit videos, managing everything from lighting and framing to post-production.

- Work closely with the Senior Director of Video to refine story structure, visuals, and editorial accuracy.

- Adapt content for multiple formats , YouTube explainers, on site clips, and social/vertical video.

- Incorporate graphics and data to help audiences visualize trends and financial concepts.

- Collaborate across teams to optimize reach and engagement.

- Use and report on analytics to understand what drives performance and apply insights to future projects.

- Appear on camera as needed to host videos.

Requirements:

- 3-5 years of experience producing, shooting, and editing video and producing journalism in video, audio or print.

- Proven track record of YouTube success.

- Demonstrated experience producing compelling news, explainer, documentary and character driven videos.

- Strong journalistic skills, including but not limited to: story ideation, research, fact-checking, sourcing experts and real people, interviewing subjects and experts, and sifting through and understanding data to produce compelling videos.

- A good understanding of business/finance news and current affairs.

- Ability to produce, shoot and edit both documentary on location videos and in-studio interviews.

- Skilled with multiple camera setups, including but not limited to the Sony FS7, A7S and multiple lighting setups.

- Professional competency editing with Adobe Premiere and using or creating professional graphics utilizing After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive Healthcare Plans

- Paid Time Off

- Retirement Plans

- Comprehensive Insurance Plans

- Lifestyle Programs & Wellness Resources

- Education Benefits

- Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support

- Commuter Transit Program

- Subscription Discounts

- Employee Referral Program

- Financial Health Programs

- Cybersecurity Protection

## Skills

### Required
- video production
- journalism
- storytelling
- scripting
- shooting
- editing
- Adobe Premiere
- After Effects
- Photoshop
- Illustrator

### Nice to have
- on-camera experience

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