Video Journalist

Visual Lease; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 54,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) matching

Tuition reimbursement

Stock purchase plan

Job summary

CoStar Group is seeking a Video Journalist to produce daily video content for its News and Homes.com brands. Based on-site in Arlington, VA, you will shoot, edit, and publish compelling stories, collaborate with editors and designers, and tailor content for multiple platforms including YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok. Prior newsroom experience is valued.

The role emphasizes fast storytelling, data translation into visuals, and maintaining brand voice across channels.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in communications or a related field.
• 1–3 years in digital design, social, editorial, news, or marketing.
• Strong portfolio of self-shot and self-edited social videos.
• Experience shooting with modern cameras or mobile devices.
• Proficient in video editing and animation software (Premiere Pro, After Effects).
• Knowledge of video styles, social trends, and algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Produce engaging daily video content for company websites and social platforms.
• Script, conceptualize, shoot, edit, and publish videos end-to-end.
• Turn breaking news into quick, punchy social clips.
• Collaborate with graphics team to strengthen brand presence and SEO.
• Develop SEO‑optimized video content and plan social calendars.
• Coordinate multimedia production to meet tight deadlines.
• Produce long-form interviews and edit short-form videos for socials.
• Translate data and editorial themes into accessible video content.
• Stay ahead of newsroom trends and platform best practices.
• Work with reporters and editors to ensure consistent story visuals.
• Shadow reporters at events and produce on-site video content.
• Contribute to planning social campaigns around major reports and investigations.

Skills

Video editing

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Storytelling

SEO

Social media

Script writing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Video Production, Marketing, Visual Communication, Digital Media, or related field

Tools

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Job description

Video Journalist

Job Description

OVERVIEW

CoStar Group is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

ABOUT THE ROLE

CoStar is seeking a highly creative, detail-oriented Video Content Creator with a strong focus on video and motion graphic production and strategy, to assist in promoting CoStar and Homes.com's biggest news stories covering our markets. This is a fast-paced, hands‑on production role ideal for someone who thrives in digital storytelling, stays ahead of platform trends, and knows how to translate complex real estate insights into visually compelling, scroll‑stopping content. Prior editorial/newsroom experience desired. Video content is increasingly taking a critical front door for CoStar’s news and Homes.com ecosystems, and your work will play a key role in expanding our reach, strengthening our brand presence, and translating complex real estate insights into compelling, accessible motion picture storytelling for a broad audience. As a key member of the News design team, you will develop motion assets, and short‑form video tailored for Homes.com and CoStar websites, and their social media extension channels, such as YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and X, while collaborating closely with the broader CoStar Group and Homes.com teams to maintain consistency, responsiveness, and brand excellence across channels. This role will help expand our storytelling capacity, support newsroom initiatives, and reinforce our position as the industry leader in commercial real estate news. It will be based on‑site at our office in Arlington, VA.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Produce engaging daily video content for the company’s websites and social media platforms. Develop content that captures attention, reinforces editorial authority, elevates CoStar and Homes.com, and drives engagement
• Script, conceptualize, shoot, edit, and publish video stories entirely on your own.
• Turn breaking news and features into quick, punchy social clips
• Serve as a key member of the graphics team in efforts to enhance CoStar news and Homes.com news brand presence, by creating effective communication and relationships between the company and our subscribers (and prospects) and employ best SEO, and video practices when to increase engagement and grow number of subscribers
• Develop and curate engaging, SEO optimized video content and collaborate with newsroom, graphics and CoStar Group’s internal communications and marketing colleagues to plan social media calendar
• Help coordinate multimedia media production with the graphics team in a fast‑paced news environment to ensure deadlines are met
• Produce long form interview videos; Edit and package short‑form video for social platforms (Insta Stories, YouTube Shorts, TikTok)
• Demonstrate a sense of newsroom and social media best practices and sensibility for segmenting audience per site and per social media channels
• Work closely with reporters, editors, designers, and analysts to visually translate data, insights, and key editorial themes into accessible, engaging, per channel‑appropriate, SEO optimized video content
• Research competitors, and commercial real estate industry news and marketing trends that encourage audience engagement
• Maintain unified brand voice across the company’s different publishing channels: adhere to brand guidelines to ensure news graphics are on style and on specs
• Collaborate with team members and editors to ensure consistent flow of videos newsroom produces
• Shadow news reporters when they attend industry events and produce videos and live social media content
• Record and produce in‑house interviews, and enhance the final output with graphics and animations
• Contribute to planning social campaigns around major reports, releases, and investigative pieces
• Work independently while within a team environment
• Occasionally, contribute to the newsroom’s written content and copyediting efforts

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Video Production, Marketing, Visual Communication, Digital Media, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Track record of commitment to prior employers
• 1–3 years of experience in digital design, preferably in social, editorial, news, or marketing environments
• A strong portfolio of self-shot and self-edited social videos.
• Experience shooting video with modern cameras or mobile devices
• Strong skills in video editing and animation software, Premiere Pro, and After Effects
• Deep knowledge of video styles, social media trends, and algorithms
• Ability to work fast under tight daily news deadlines
• Ability to work quickly, creatively, and efficiently under tight deadlines
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Experience writing video scripts

Base Compensation: $54,000-$72,000 Annually

What's In It For You?

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance‑based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training and tuition reimbursement.

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Access to CoStar Group’s Employee Resource Groups

However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug‑free workplace and perform pre‑employment substance abuse testing