Food Wars Fellow (Summer 2024)
Business Insider is hiring a research and scripting fellow to join its team to work on the “Food Wars” video series, as well as its spin-offs such as “Food Tours.” This UK based fellow will start in Summer 2024.
**Fellowship applications close April 15, 2024**
The Role & Team:
The Business Insider Fellowship Program is for early career journalists who want to spend six months learning from a newsroom full of passionate, dedicated journalists. Fellows are assigned to teams and become experts in digital storytelling. They produce real work that is distributed to our audience of millions, and by the end of six months, they are prepared for the next phase of their journalism careers. This role requires you to work for 40 hours a week.
As a Food Wars Fellow you will report directly to the Managing Producer of Food Wars and sit on the video team. In this role you should also be available to work from our London studios in Surrey Quays to help when shooting episodes.
Key responsibilities
- Working quickly and collaboratively with a fast-paced team
- Assisting our US and UK-based “Food Wars” team to create episodes of the show.
- Assisting our producers by pitching new content, researching and writing scripts for episodes
- Creating scripts for a wide audience across the web and various social media platforms
The ideal candidate has:
- A passion for storytelling through video, specifically about food
- Experience with researching and fact-checking
- Ability to write clear and clean copy for the scripts
- An eye for detail and for moments that elevate videos to the next level
- An interest in video production, and open to learning how to use Adobe Premiere, After Effects, and Photoshop
- A collaborative spirit and a willingness to learn
- A commitment to fair and inclusive storytelling
Example episodes of Food Wars and Food Tours:
US vs Japan McDonald's | Food Wars
US vs UK Coca Cola | Food Wars
Finding The Best Burger In London | Food Tours
Salary & Benefits:
- Fellows are paid an annual salary of £24,000.
- Fellows get 10 days annual leave during the 6-month period.
- This position starts in Summer 2024 and requires that you work full-time for six months.
- The work will be mostly remote, but will include 1 or 2 in-person shoots per week in our studio in Surrey Quays.
Please apply with a resume and cover letter and specify why you're interested in working on this team. If you’d like some tips, check out our best practices guide.
Are you passionate about this opportunity, but worried that you don’t have 100% of the experience we’re looking for? We still want to hear from you! Apply online and let us know why you would make a great addition to the Insider community.
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