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About the Role
The Daily Mail is seeking a freelance Video Journalist to contribute to high-impact content for a global audience. This role involves working within the breaking news video desk to create compelling video edits from major developing stories.
Responsibilities
- Edit and publish short-form video for Daily Mail's global audience
- Turn raw footage from original reporting, wires, UGC and archive into sharp, compelling narratives
- Develop structured, in-depth edits around major news events
- Add graphics, captions, subtitles and branding to elevate storytelling
- Shoot video to a professional standard when required, using DSLR cameras including Sony A7 series cameras
- Reformat 16x9 into 9x16 and optimise for web and mobile audiences
- Pitch and package video ideas around breaking news, politics, royals, showbiz and features
- Work closely with reporters, producers and editors across the newsroom
- Ensure all content meets legal, copyright and compliance standards
Requirements
- Experience editing in a newsroom, digital publisher or similarly fast-paced environment
- Strong Premiere Pro skills
- Proven ability to shoot and capture high-quality video using DSLR cameras
- Experience working with Sony A7 cameras is highly desirable
- Excellent editorial judgment and a sharp instinct for what makes stories resonate
- The ability to work quickly and calmly under pressure
- Understanding of audience engagement, SEO and digital storytelling
- Strong communication skills and meticulous attention to detail
Skills
- Premiere Pro
- DSLR camera operation
- Sony A7 camera operation
- Video editing
- Video shooting
- Storytelling
- Audience engagement
- SEO
- Digital storytelling
- Communication
- Attention to detail
Location
- London, W8 5HY
Work Type
- Freelance
- Office-based
Experience Level
- Depending on experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive rate, depending on experience
Benefits
- 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
- Pension Plan with 5% employee contribution and 3% Company contribution
- Life cover under the Pension Plan of up to 3x basic salary
- DMGT Discounts
- Subsidised canteen
- Onsite gym
- Onsite nurse and GP clinics
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounted dining cards
About the Company
- Daily Mail is an award-winning, multi-platform newsbrand reaching more than 33 million print and online readers each month.
- The world-famous Mail offers a unique blend of breaking news, agenda-setting exclusives, showbiz, Femail, health, sport and lifestyle stories across print, digital, video, audio and social channels.
- Its global newsroom of journalists, formidable story-getting power, and breadth of content formats delivers highly engaging, trusted Daily Mail content to millions of loyal and new audiences.
- Daily Mail is the largest news publisher on TikTok with more than 21 million total followers and more than 29 billion views in the past year.
- A trailblazing global phenomenon, Daily Mail is part of dmg media.
- www.dailymail.co.uk
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.
- We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process