Overview
KPRC 2 is seeking a creative and driven Editor to join our dynamic team. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact across multiple platforms, leveraging your creativity and technical skills to enhance news production for broadcast, digital, and social platforms.
Position: Editor
Responsibilities
- Ingest and edit video content into stories ready for broadcast and digital, ensuring a high level of quality and creativity.
- Collaborate with reporters and photographers on sending file video and other content, utilizing File Transfer Protocols efficiently.
- Manage the archival and retrieval of video assets, maintaining an organized digital library.
- Assist in producing content for digital, social, and multiplatform outlets, optimizing linear content for online publication.
- Oversee media pushed into playback servers and manage system administration tasks, including monitoring media storage, routine maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Fulfill footage requests from various departments and external entities.
- Edit content requiring additional production processes (e.g., blurring faces or adding audio bleeps) to meet broadcast standards.
- Other duties as assigned.
Key Qualifications
- Prior years of experience in television news or a related field with knowledge of news production editing techniques.
- Proficiency with Edius and/or Adobe Premiere; familiarity with contemporary television production techniques.
- Ability to work under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Self-motivated, collaborative, and highly creative, with strong storytelling through sound and images.
- Flexibility to work a varied schedule, including early mornings, nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Communications, or a related field.
- Proficiency with digital tools and content management systems; understanding of metrics for television and digital success.
- Proven ability to work across departments and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong editorial judgment and mastery of journalistic ethics and libel laws.
- Valid driver’s license with an acceptable driving record.
Location
KPRC 2, 8181 Southwest Freeway, Houston, Texas 77074
How to Apply
Please submit your updated resume and completed application to:
Chris Herring, Operations Manager
[email removed]
Click HERE to download and complete employment application.
Note: Any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of a pre-employment drug screening, investigative background check, employment/education verifications, and reference checks. You must hold a valid driver's license and be insurable under Texas law.
No Phone Calls Please
Equal Opportunity Employer
KPRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In addition to complying with federal requirements, KPRC will comply with applicable state and local laws prohibiting employment discrimination.
Employment Type
Full Time