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About the Role

As Media Operator at Reuters, you will organize, catalogue, and safely store the Reuters archive inventory. You will coordinate, monitor, and QC tape ingestion against targets, format and upload content to the Media Asset Management system, and operate and maintain specialist equipment. You will also conduct archive research for the Sales & Licensing Team and support curation for the Marketing Team.

Responsibilities

• Manage the media ingest workflow for the Reuters Archive Team.
• Catalogue, digitise, ingest, and store video tapes from the Reuters Video Archive and its archive partners.
• Digitise a range of tape formats in an organised and timely manner, ensuring all content is processed in accordance with Reuters Video Archive guidelines and quality control standards.
• Identify and troubleshoot technical issues related to digitisation and ingestion, working closely with the Technical Operations team.
• Liaise with internal teams and external contractors, applying knowledge of archive collections and equipment.
• Organize, catalogue, and safely store the Reuters archive inventory.
• Coordinate, monitor, and QC tape ingestion against targets.
• Format and upload content to the Media Asset Management system.
• Operate and maintain specialist equipment, including deep-cleaning kit and troubleshooting errors.
• Conduct archive research for the Sales & Licensing Team.
• Support curation for the Marketing Team.

Requirements

• Experience with magnetic video tapes and their players, particularly DVCPro, Beta SP, and U-matic.
• Knowledge of digital media formats.
• Ability to identify audio-visual issues in migrated tapes that would require re-digitization.
• Experience with DAM or MAM systems, including metadata transcription and input.
• Confidence in using AI as part of your workflow.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills.
• Ability to work efficiently and multi-task.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Great attention to detail.
• Aptitude for learning new technical skills.
• Motivation for continuous development.
• Ability to maintain high standards across high-volume workloads.
• Ability to solve problems.
• Knowledge of, and interest in, news and archival news.

Skills

• Media ingest workflow management
• Cataloguing
• Digitisation
• Video tape ingestion and storage
• Quality control
• Technical issue troubleshooting
• Archive research
• Content curation
• Metadata transcription and input
• AI workflow integration
• Organizational skills
• Time-management skills
• Communication skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail

Location

• 5 Canada Square, Canary Wharf London

Work Type

• On-site
• Hybrid Work Model (2-3 days a week in the office)
• Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year

Benefits

• Flexible vacation
• Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
• Access to the Headspace app
• Retirement savings
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee incentive programs
• Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing

About the Company

• Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions.
• We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media.
• Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency.
• Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
• We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments.
• At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them.
• Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
• As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals.

Equal Opportunity

• As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law.
• Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
• We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.