Job Description

Producer, Video Podcasts (Level 1 Journalist, Temp Guild)

Are you a video-first news producer who can turn a major developing story into a polished, audience-ready program on deadline? If so, we want to hear from you.

Reuters World News delivers authoritative, visually compelling global-news coverage to millions of viewers and listeners across streaming, video, and podcast platforms.

Based in Los Angeles, you will produce the daily afternoon update for Reuters World News, a flagship 10-minute news program. You will collaborate with colleagues across Reuters’ global newsroom, using strong editorial judgment and sophisticated video-production skills to script and produce high-value journalism for digital audiences.

This assignment is expected to last approximately six months and reports to the Senior Podcast Producer.

 

Key Responsibilities

As Producer, Video Podcasts (Level 1 Journalist, Temp Guild), you will:

• Video news production:  produce the daily afternoon Reuters World News update from editorial planning through final delivery, creating polished, visually engaging video coverage for streaming and digital audiences.
• Breaking-news storytelling: Monitor developing news, identify the stories that matter most, and rapidly shape accurate, compelling video segments under tight deadlines.
• Visual editorial execution: Write scripts, select and sequence visuals, edit footage, and package stories with strong pacing, clarity, and production value
• Editorial judgment: Apply sound news judgment to prioritize coverage, ensure accuracy and impartiality, and present complex global stories in an accessible way.
• Multi-platform adaptation: Create video-first programming that also translates effectively to podcast and audio audiences, preserving the direct, engaging style that connects creators with listeners and viewers.
• On-air presentation: Host segments or provide on-camera and audio presentation when needed, communicating with authority, clarity, and credibility.
• Independent collaboration: Work autonomously while coordinating effectively with reporters, editors, producers, and technical teams across locations and time zones.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: Demonstrated experience independently producing polished video news content in a fast-paced newsroom, broadcast, streaming, or digital-news environment.
• Video production skills: Strong hands-on ability to edit and package audience-ready video, including scripting, audio-visual storytelling, pacing, and delivery to professional editorial standards.
• Editorial judgment: Proven ability to make sound editorial decisions, manage competing priorities, and deliver accurate coverage under deadline pressure.
• Writing and presentation: Excellent news writing and scripting skills, with experience or demonstrated ability to present on camera and/or on audio as required.
• Independent working style: Ability to take the initiative running the full production process with limited minute-to-minute supervision while maintaining clear communication with a manager and colleagues working in other locations and time zones.
• Journalistic standards: Commitment to Reuters’ principles of independence, integrity, accuracy, and impartiality, along with a strong interest in global news and current affairs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Streaming and digital-video experience: Experience producing short-form video news for streaming, digital-first, or social video audiences.
• Breaking-news experience: Experience covering live events or fast-moving breaking news, particularly in a global-news environment.
• Podcast expertise: Experience producing podcasts or audio journalism, with an understanding of how hosts and creators build a direct connection with their audience.
• Subject-matter knowledge: Familiarity with international affairs, politics, business, or other major Reuters coverage areas.
• Additional qualities: Strong organization, visual creativity, calmness under pressure, curiosity, and a collaborative approach to producing trusted journalism.

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What’s in it For You?

At Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

• Global Career: As a global company, we can offer a truly international career and progression opportunities.

• Learning & Development: On the job learning and coaching. We also have a dedicated training team focused on the continuous development of our journalists.

• Industry Competitive Benefits:  We offer competitive salary packages and market leading benefits including paid volunteering days.

• Perks: Work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and a team who provide unmatched, award-winning coverage of the world’s most important stories.

About Reuters

Reuters is the world’s largest multimedia news provider. Founded in 1851, it is committed to the Trust Principles of independence, integrity and freedom from bias. With unmatched coverage in over 16 languages, and reaching billions of people worldwide every day, Reuters provides trusted intelligence that powers humans and machines to make smart decisions. It supplies business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers.

 

 

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation hourly range for the role in any of those locations is $39 USD - $70 USD/hr.

About Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

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