Senior Video Producer
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
Date of Issuance: 28 August 2019
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), one of the world’s largest and most innovative investigative reporting organizations, is hiring a senior video producer to add to its award-winning video team.
We’re looking for an expert storyteller who can work in an unconventional environment. Collaboration and working seamlessly with a broad range of journalists is essential. OCCRP has the resources, support structure and international network to produce the most important stories with the best investigative journalists.
For information about OCCRP please visit www.occrp.org.
Principal Tasks
Write and produce feature-length documentary films as well as write and oversee short videos that compliment reporters’ investigations.
Work together with a broad range of investigative journalists across Eastern Europe (and beyond) and hire and manage freelance camerapersons, editors and animators as needed.
The job will require extensive travel and the ability to work under highly stressful conditions. The video department is small and the candidate is expected to work independently when not in the field.
Qualifications and Skills
Bachelor’s degree required.
A proven track record producing outstanding videos for top broadcasters or news associations.
Very good command of the English language (oral and written skills).
Ability to prioritize tasks in a high-energy, deadline-oriented environment.
To apply, please apply with a resume, cover letter and links to your previous work at jobs(at)occrp.org by September 30th, 2019. We regret that we are not able to reply to unsuccessful candidates.
Link:
https://www.occrp.org/en/occrp-jobs/senior-video-producer
Investigative Editor
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
Date of Issuance: 02 August 2019
Deadline: September 30, 2019
DESCRIPTION
Journalism Development Network JDN, Inc (doing business as OCCRP) is recruiting an investigative editor to join our vibrant team and help us tackle the most challenging stories in the world. OCCRP is one of the world’s leading investigative reporting organizations, with a staff of 130 and operations across the globe. We are known for producing high-quality, ambitious cross-border investigations under difficult conditions.
We’re looking for someone who can:
Demonstrate investigative reporting and editing skills.
- Work on OCCRP’s most high-profile investigations, including complex offshore financial schemes.
- Work productively, and in challenging conditions, with local journalists from a variety of journalistic traditions, cultures, levels of experience, and language proficiencies.
- Mentor less experienced editors.
- Edit investigations to a high quality while eliminating libel risk and identifying areas of potential litigation.
- Work with and train local reporters in investigative techniques and best practices with an eye to developing maximum efficiency.
- Gather news in a safe, ethical and productive manner.
- Source new data and original datasets.
- Communicate effectively with colleagues in remote settings.
Coordinating story scheduling, production, illustrations and promotion.
- Speak fluent English. Russian is a plus.
- Work effectively as part of a team (a track record of this kind of work is important).
- Demonstrate passion, thick skin, and the temperament to work in occasionally stressful conditions on high-stakes stories.
- Utilize the immense resources and unique abilities of OCCRP.
- Support OCCRP’s ethos and values.
BENEFITS
Salary is competitive and subject to experience. Healthcare included.
Link:
https://www.occrp.org/en/occrp-jobs/investigative-editor
ARIJ is hiring a managing investigative editor
Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ)
Amman- ARIJ is looking for an experienced managing editor with an excellent eye for the great investigative story. The candidate we are looking for is up to the challenge of leading the MENA region’s premiere investigative center where they should demonstrate excellent leadership, editing, mentoring and collaborative skills.
You will lead and grow our team of dedicated journalists, researchers and data specialists from our Amman offices.
You will commission and edit politically and socially sensitive investigative stories as well as smaller – but still important – “training” investigations.
You will safeguard our ethical, legal and professional standards for fairness, accuracy and levels of proof.
We are looking for the face of Arab investigative journalism that will combine good mentoring and teaching skills, leadership, patience, courage, resolve and the ability to both inspire respect from colleagues while demonstrating it to others. You must also be an efficient manager capable of meeting deadlines, solving problems and improving systems.
WE ARE:
ARIJ (Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism) is the first investigative journalism network established in the Middle East and North Africa. Since it was created in 2006 it has become the premiere network for investigative reporters in the region. The ARIJ Annual Forum for Investigative Journalism gathers 500 journalists from the region every year.
ARIJ is a training institution and a support network for investigative journalists throughout the MENA-region. In ARIJ, we commission, fund and give editorial assistance to journalists working on important investigative stories at the local, regional or transnational level.
For more details:
https://en.arij.net/news/arij-is-hiring-a-managing-investigative-editor
Link:
https://en.arij.net/news/arij-is-hiring-a-managing-investigative-editor
Managing director
Radio Dabanga
Radio Dabanga produces independent news to make sure that everyone, wherever they are in Sudan, is aware of vital information. This includes news on political developments, human rights abuses, outbreaks of disease, and gender-based violence.
Radio Dabanga believes that representation of these issues in the media can help foster information exchange, understanding, and eventually peace in Sudan.
The station was created as an independent news source originally reporting on the conflict in Darfur. Ten years after its birth, Dabanga’s unique position and vast in-country network allows the journalists to remotely gather and publish news about every corner of Sudan.
Radio programmes are broadcast via shortwave and satellite TV in Arabic to Sudan to 3.3 million daily listeners. News articles are written in Arabic and English, published daily on Radio Dabanga’s website, Facebook, Twitter, and in over 100 WhatsApp groups. Over the past 10 years, Radio Dabanga has been supported operationally by Free Press Unlimited.
We are looking for a Managing Director (38 hours a week).
See link for more details!
Link:
https://www.freepressunlimited.org/en/vacancy-managing-director-radio-dabanga
Business Editor
Kyiv Post
LeDing business coverage for Kyiv Post, Ukraine’s English-language newspaper
Link:
Kyivpost.com
Managing Editor
Open Markets Institute
Open Markets Institute, an anti-monopoly think tank based in Washington, D.C., is seeking a veteran editor to join our team as Managing Editor. We work to address threats to democracy, individual liberties, and national security from today’s unprecedented levels of corporate concentration and monopoly power.
The Managing Editor will assist the Policy and Editorial Director in managing and editing the work of a team of highly-skilled, highly-collaborative journalists and policy intellectuals. Editorial products include magazine features and op-ed pieces as well as scholarly articles, white papers, position papers, and newsletters.
For more information and to apply, please see this link here: https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs/open-markets-institute-af09c465/managing-editor-d4ca78c5
If you want to to learn more about our work please see: www.openmarketsinstitute.org
Please contact Katherine Dill, dill@openmarketsinstitute.org if you have any questions about this role and spread the word.
Link:
https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs/open-markets-institute-af09c465/managing-editor-d4ca78c5
Director, Center for Liberty and Journalism
Open Markets Institute
The Open Markets Institute is in the process of establishing the Center for Liberty and Journalism in Washington. The core mission of the Center is to ensure that the news media of the United States and our democratic allies is fully independent and robustly funded in the 21st century’s digital economy. The Center’s work will be guided by the belief that government plays a fundamental role in structuring news media markets and business models to ensure that neither the state nor any one or few private actors control the words or actions of reporters, editors, and publishers.
Position Objective:
Open Markets Institute is looking for a candidate with strong working understanding of competition law and policy to help stand up our Center for Liberty and Journalism. The position reports directly to OMI’s head of Research, Policy & Editorial Direction. A successful candidate will bring enthusiasm for working in a fast-paced, start-up environment, a highly organized work style, and an affinity for building and maintaining networks to help advance ideas. Experience speaking to policymakers, academics, and the media is preferred.
Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications: Please see details on LinkedIn -
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/director-center-for-liberty-and-journalism-at-open-markets-1515820715
Based in Washington, D.C. Please submit your cover letter and resume in a single PDF to dill(at)openmarketsinstitute.
Link:
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/director-center-for-liberty-and-journalism-at-open-markets-1515820715
