Staff Assistant - Photojournalism and Video Production
Job Description
The Communities of Hope program, a community news service under the Journalism Program in the Department of Media + Design + Communication, is looking for a student worker with photojournalism and video production skills to produce and deliver news and other media content to local communities in Rhode Island.
Communities of Hope is a community-driven solutions journalism news service working with specific groups of people who have been erased, marginalized, underrepresented, misrepresented and maligned by mainstream media outlets.
Our mission is to empower people in those communities through training, paid work, information gathering, and educational storytelling to participate in the public conversations about the issues that affect them, about their histories, and about their roles in society, making them a central part of the decision-making process.
The student working in this position will be expected to:
- Conduct visual reporting content and support for Communities of Hope’s projects. The student will receive credit (bylines) and hold shared copyrights of every distributed product.
- Conduct original reporting, interviews, and produce original stories for Communities of Hope. The student will receive credit (bylines) and hold shared copyrights of every distributed product.
- Edit photo and video projects and contribute to other Communities of Hope projects by conducting visual research, reporting, production, writing captions, cutlines and alt texts, and providing visual treatment for visual reporting products. The student will receive credit (bylines) and hold shared copyrights of every distributed product.
- Assist in preparing and organizing spaces for media production and media production classes (i.e. news lab, editing islands, podcast production room, etc.).
- Assist with equipment care, setup, and cleaning for specific classes and production projects.
Special Skills Needed:
Photography, videography, and visual media production, editing and treatment, time management and basic organizational skills.
Academic Major Preferred:
Photography and Digital Media, Film, Animation and Video, Journalism, Communication & Media Studies or any students with visual media production skills and a general understanding of news media may apply.
Starting Date:
Applications will stay open until the position is filled.
*Students are prohibited from driving during work-study employment with the limited exception of authorized work-study driver positions.
** All employees, including student employees, are required to participate in a short online training that will prepare you with the new protocols for working on campus. Please click on the following link to complete your training: http://rwu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a4aBCUkcc7Vl7QF