News Producer, Video

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Your New Role

CNN is hiring a multi-platform producer to join its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong, with a strong focus on open-source intelligence (OSINT) techniques and real-time investigative reporting.

The successful candidate will share our insatiable appetite for breaking news and chasing fast-moving stories across time zones, moving between international and domestic news depending on the global priority.

From conflict to natural disasters, the successful candidate will respond in real time to breaking events, identifying, gathering and clearing distinctive video content, while using digital forensic techniques to verify and uncover new information.

Working as part of a diverse, highly collaborative newsroom, the successful candidate will serve as a vital link in CNN’s follow-the-sun operation to ensure consistent, multi-platform coverage around the clock, including weekends.

The successful candidate must have strong editorial judgement, as well as experience producing video for digital-first audiences.

Your Role Accountabilities

• Identify, gather, verify and clear distinctive video content for creative use across video-first platforms.

• Use open-source intelligence (OSINT) techniques, including geolocation, satellite imagery and geospatial data analysis, to verify and uncover new information.

• Produce video for use across platforms.

• Switch between US and international news priorities, depending on needs.

• Communicate with teams across CNN, including those in the field.

• Ensure all content is legally compliant and consistent with CNN standards and practices by partnering with teams who oversee these functions.

Qualifications & Experience

• Demonstrable OSINT and/or digital forensic reporting experience.

• Extensive experience working in a video-first newsroom.

• Heightened ability to identify news and cultivate strong sources and areas of expertise.

• A real editorial drive with deep knowledge, passion and interest in US and international news.

• Willingness to work weekends, as well as occasional late-night and/or early shifts.

• A curiosity to keep learning, to think critically, and a strong desire to make CNN’s coverage innovative, distinctive and reflective of the world we cover.

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