Location
London

Hours
Full Time - Fast-paced, high-energy newsroom environment

About the Role
The Telegraph is seeking a sharp, creative, and highly motivated Daily Video News Editor to join our fast-paced video desk. This role demands speed, productivity, and sharp editorial judgment, focusing on identifying the most compelling visual moments across News, Foreign, Global Health, and Lifestyle beats. You will clip these moments into highly engaging short-form content for homepage and articles, enhancing the site and app with strong 20-second clips.

You will work closely with multiple departments across the newsroom, reacting to breaking news, covering live events, feeding into liveblogs, and collaborating with video producers to extract strong visuals for online articles and longform video packages.

Key Responsibilities
1. Fast-Paced Video Editing & Creativity: Efficiently cut, edit, and optimise 20-second video clips using Adobe Premiere Pro for digital articles and onsite placement. Use creative flair, including graphics, montages, and highlights, to make clips visually arresting and highly clickable. Deliver high-quality visual assets rapidly to keep pace with the breaking news cycle.
2. Sourcing & Researching News: Constantly monitor news wires, agency feeds, and competitor platforms to ensure The Telegraph never misses strong video content. Use editorial judgment to identify powerful visuals and flag critical content to senior and breaking editors. Pitch sourced footage to other desks to help commission fresh editorial pieces.
3. Newsroom Collaboration: Act as a vital bridge between the Video Desk and the wider newsroom, working closely with breaking news teams to elevate daily output.

Salary
Competitive salary offered, commensurate with experience

Our Benefits
Life at Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We offer a suite of benefits to support lifestyle and leisure, including dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, six months fully paid maternity leave, enhanced paternity/partner leave, life assurance, and season ticket loans. These flexible benefits are designed to support a healthy work-life balance.

Training and Development
With support from your manager and colleagues, you will have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Courses cover a range of personal and professional skills to help you develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our Commitment to Inclusion
Telegraph Media Group fosters a diverse and inclusive workplace and is committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives, and backgrounds. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion, or belief. We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and provide support and reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process for disabled candidates or those with long-term health conditions.

Experience
Proven ability to work efficiently and creatively in a fast-paced video editing environment. Solid foundational skills in Adobe Premiere Pro are essential. Experience in sourcing and identifying compelling news footage is highly desirable.

About You
You possess excellent editorial judgment with a strong instinct for what makes a good story. You can quickly identify the exact 20 seconds of footage that will engage audiences. You are highly efficient, able to work under tight deadlines without sacrificing quality or accuracy. Exceptional communication skills are required to confidently liaise with different departments, pitch ideas, and flag missing content. Strong organisational and time management skills are essential to handle multiple rolling news stories throughout your shift.

Qualifications
Relevant qualifications or training in video editing or journalism are advantageous but not mandatory. A positive attitude, creativity, and a willingness to learn are highly valued.