Daily Video News Editor

About The Role

The Telegraph is looking for a sharp, creative, and highly motivated Daily Video News Editor to join our fast-paced video desk.

This role is a high-energy, fast-turnaround role focused on speed, productivity, and sharp editorial judgment. You will be responsible for identifying the most compelling visual moments across News, Foreign, Global Health, and Lifestyle beats, clipping them into highly engaging short-form content for homepage and articles.

This role will work with multiple departments across the newsroom, focusing on enhancing articles on the site and app with strong 20s clips. Topics will range from reacting to breaking news, covering live events and feeding into liveblogs and working with video producers to pull out strong visuals for the online article to their longform video packages.

Key Responsibilities

1. Fast-Paced Video Editing & Creativity

• Editing: Efficiently cut, edit, and optimise 20-second video clips using Adobe Premiere Pro for digital articles and onsite placement.
• Creative Execution: Use creative flair to make short-form clips grab viewers attention on app and site. You will use graphics, montages, and highlights to ensure our onsite video elements are visually arresting and highly clickable.
• Maintain Momentum: Deliver high-quality visual assets rapidly to match the breaking news cycle.

2. Sourcing & Researching

• News Gathering: Constantly monitor news wires, agency feeds, and competitor platforms to ensure The Telegraph never misses strong video content.
• Editorial Judgement: Hunt for strong news lines and powerful visuals, flagging critical content to senior/breaking editors.
• Cross-Desk Collaboration: Pitch your sourced footage to other desks (Breaking News, Foreign, Lifestyle) to help commission fresh editorial pieces wrapped around strong video content.

3. Newsroom Collaboration

• Act as a vital bridge between the Video Desk and the wider newsroom, working hand-in-hand with breaking news teams to elevate our daily output.

What We Are Looking For

• This role is built on three core pillars: Communication, Editorial Judgment, and Time Management.

Key Skills

• Technical Proficiency: Solid foundational skills in Adobe Premiere Pro. You need to be fast and efficient at clipping and exporting.
• Editorial Instinct: A strong sense of what makes a good story. You can watch raw footage and instantly pinpoint the exact 20 seconds that will grip the audience.
• Highly efficient: The ability to work quickly under tight deadlines without sacrificing accuracy or quality.
• Exceptional Communication: Confidence to speak with different departments, pitch ideas, and flag missing content to busy news desks.
• Organisation: Strong time management skills to handle multiple rolling news stories throughout your shift

Our benefits

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.