We’re adding to ProPublica’s award-winning engagement team and we’re looking for a visual journalist to help us do more on social media and other platforms.
You’ll work closely with social visuals and graphics producer Lucas Waldron, thinking through and producing small, medium and large social visuals. What could this mean? Think: smart, simple infographics; clear, catchy animations; perfectly sized illustrations; tight, snappy scripts for videos; side-by-side contradictory quote cards from officials; Instagram stories; and a bunch of stuff we aren’t even thinking about yet. Really, we’re open to as many ideas as you’ve got.
You’ll be creating visual assets for ProPublica’s Twitter, Facebook, newsletters and anywhere else our journalism is shareable.
- Someone comfortable experimenting with visual editing and graphic design software — and with a general understanding of design principles.
- Someone comfortable working in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and/or Premiere.
- If you’ve got any experience with illustration, animation or data visualization, tell us about that! It’s a nice plus.
- Someone genuinely interested in the social web, who keeps an eye on the latest trends, and who will guide us toward good and interesting work at other outlets.
- We care the most about making sure we’re presenting our stories with accuracy and rigor. Journalism experience, especially involving hard-hitting stories that shed light on injustices, is a plus.
If all of this sounds exciting to you, apply at https://propublica.forms.fm/social-visuals-producer-contract
We know there are great candidates who may not fit into what we’ve described above, or who have important skills we haven’t thought of. If that’s you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.
We are dedicated to improving our newsroom, in part by better reflecting the people we cover. We are committed to diversity and building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and ages. And we are taking steps to meet that commitment. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ people and people with disabilities.
This is a contract job through Dec. 31, 2018. The job is based in New York.
You can send questions to [email protected] [email protected]. No phone calls, please.