Politics Video Producer/Editor — Fast-Paced, DC-Based

Content Creators; Washington (District of Columbia); Sur place; USD 115 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid leave

Tuition reimbursement

Other discounts

Résumé du poste

VERSANT Media in Washington, DC, seeks a MS NOW Politics Video Coordinating Producer/Editor to shape daily political video coverage for the 2028 cycle. You will work with embeds, field producers, and reporters nationwide to identify the biggest moments and distill them into sharp, shareable clips for digital platforms.

You are a politics-driven editor who can write, edit, and supervise multi-vertical videos, while guiding reporters and producers in framing, scripting, and storytelling under

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of digital or social video editing, producing, and writing experience.
• Deep expertise in politics, campaigns, and elections, with a strong understanding of the 2028 election cycle.
• Adobe Premiere expert who can edit quickly and confidently when speed is the priority.
• Proven experience editing and producing original digital video.
• Exceptional editorial judgment and an instinct for identifying the strongest and most compelling element of a political story.
• Strong scriptwriting and headline-writing skills, with the ability to distill complex stories into clear, accessible, and engaging video.
• Ability to work closely with reporters and producers and provide strong editorial direction on framing and scripting.
• Ability to recognize the moment from the campaign trail that audiences need to see and quickly turn it into compelling video.
• Strong commitment to accuracy, fairness, context, and nuance.
• Ability to manage multiple stories and original projects simultaneously in an extremely fast-moving news environment.
• Ability to delegate work to staff working with you.
• Strong knowledge of TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and other social and digital platforms and their audiences.
• Comply with the Standards and Practices of MS NOW.

Responsabilités

• Work closely with 2028 campaign embeds, field producers and reporters to produce compelling original video daily.
• Write, edit, and produce multiple vertical videos daily, either by yourself or assigned to a teammate.
• Serve as a key editorial partner to political desk, political director and DC Bureau executives.
• Shape video reports by identifying the most compelling angles and video.
• Oversee and sharpen scripts.
• Monitor the campaign coverage notes and candidate schedules throughout the day and identify the moments, interviews, exchanges that are most compelling.
• React quickly to breaking political news, turning video that is fast, accurate, distinctive, and competitive.
• Distill complicated political stories and campaign developments into clear, compelling storytelling for a broad audience.
• Generate daily and long-term original video pitches responsive to the political news cycle and developments across campaign.
• Edit longer form video for YouTube and OTT platforms.
• Identify opportunities for campaign reporting to break through with new franchises.
• Write compelling headlines, scripts, and social copy.
• Develop new social franchises and formats around the 2028 election.
• Innovate with new ideas and storytelling approaches to grow the audience and the MS NOW brand.

Connaissances

Politics expertise

Editorial judgment

Video editing

Digital video

Scriptwriting

Storytelling

Leadership

Deadline pressure

Social platforms

Team collaboration

Campaign knowledge

Description du poste

VERSANT Media in Washington, DC, seeks a MS NOW Politics Video Coordinating Producer/Editor to shape daily political video coverage for the 2028 cycle. You will work with embeds, field producers, and reporters nationwide to identify the biggest moments and distill them into sharp, shareable clips for digital platforms.

You are a politics-driven editor who can write, edit, and supervise multi-vertical videos, while guiding reporters and producers in framing, scripting, and storytelling under