Multimedia Digital Editor

Bangor Daily News; Bangor (ME); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Bangor Daily News is seeking a Multimedia Digital Editor to grow our digital audiences through strong visuals and compelling, data-informed storytelling. You will lead video production, edit multimedia from staff and freelancers, and publish engaging visual narratives across platforms.

You’ll collaborate with the Chief Digital Editor to craft unique layouts, explore new platforms, and push our coverage to stand out locally and nationally.

Qualifications

• Experience creating and editing video and graphics for online platforms.
• Ability to interpret data and build charts, maps, or other visual storytelling elements.
• Ability to package stories for growth in digital audiences.

Responsibilities

• Create and edit multimedia content (video, graphics, charts) for digital platforms.
• Pull multimedia from archives and external sources to enhance stories.
• Design and publish visuals in WordPress and collaborate with editors and developers.

Skills

Video editing

Visual storytelling

Data visualization

Social media experimentation

Audience growth

Curiosity about tools

Initiative

Brand voice

Job description

The Bangor Daily News is looking for a visually focused editor to grow our digital audiences and find compelling new ways to enhance our coverage. This is a role for a journalist who loves video, understands what makes a story interesting and wants to shape how the BDN connects with audiences online.

Multimedia Digital Editor

What you’ll do

This job is focused on ensuring stories have strong visuals and that we’re adapting content to vertical video wherever possible. You’d pull multimedia from our own archives and from around the web to deepen readers' understanding of a story. You'll create video, as well as solicit and edit videos from creators, freelancers and staff. You'll regularly build visual-focused stories and create original multimedia such as graphics and charts for our platforms. You'll research new platforms and tactics for telling stories online.

Working with the Chief Digital Editor, you'll identify special projects suited to unique layouts, then design them in WordPress, partnering with staff and developers as needed to get them published. You'll keep a close, competitive eye on other local and national outlets chasing the same audience, and push us to be better than them.

You'll pitch in with the News Desk on editing, publishing and promotion on a limited role as needed.

What you bring

• An eye for trending stories and how to package them to grow audience
• Comfort interpreting data and building charts, maps, and other digital storytelling tools
• Experience creating and editing video
• A genuine love of social media and willingness to experiment with new platforms
• Awareness of industry trends and a habit of staying current on them
• Initiative - you propose ideas based on what our audience needs
• A distinct voice, used in a way that stays true to the BDN brand
• Curiosity about new tools and technology, and comfort proposing them