Spotted on the NY Times website ….
About the Role:
The New York Times Photo department is seeking a visionary leader and experienced visual journalist to oversee the continued digital transformation of one of the world’s most significant visual histories. While our digital archive is extensive, many undigitized physical assets remain stored in our newsroom.
This role is dual-purpose: you will serve as the strategic architectfor the ongoing digitization and preservation of these archives, and as an editorial producer who surfaces and initiates ambitious visual storytelling. You will bridge the gap between our physical past and our digital future, ensuring our vast collection of unseen history is accessible, preserved, and utilized to enhance our journalism.
This is an in-office position based in New York and includes regular attendance in the office four days each week. There may be some flexibility to work remotely per your departmental guidance.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute a long-term plan to digitize ~2 million remaining prints and millions of negatives, transitioning physical assets to cloud-based systems for newsroom-wide access.
- Oversee the urgent migration of legacy digital media to the cloud, ensuring these assets are successfully linked to our internal search and discovery tools for newsroom access.
- Source and pitch archival visual enterprise stories and series, collaborating with various desks to produce Life in Pictures features, advance obituaries, and complex visual narratives.
- Lead the development of new digital formats and presentation styles for archival content, pushing the boundaries of how historical photography is experienced online.
- Manage and partner with the caretaker of The Times’ archive to fully edify your knowledge and understanding of the archive’s structure, contents and history.
- Work closely with the caretaker of The Times’ archive and other stakeholders to ensure a cohesive approach to the preservation of both photographic and non-photographic history.
- Collaborate with the assistant editor for the Image Support Team to coordinate and modernize Image Support technician workflows to maximize efficiency in archival scanning, studio operations, still-life photography, and digital production support for photo editors.
- Accelerate the research process for desks across the newsroom, acting as the primary expert on the archive’s contents and potential.
- Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
- You will report to a Deputy Editor for Photo.