Job description
Job Title: Video Journalist (Freelance)
Location: London
The Daily Mail is seeking a talented and fast-working Freelance Site Video Editor to help us deliver compelling, high-impact video content to millions of readers worldwide. The position requires a sharp editorial eye, the ability to thrive in a breaking-news environment, and the skills to turn raw footage into engaging videos.
What You’ll Do
- Edit short-form the Daily Mail website.
- Craft compelling visual narratives from a mix of original footage, wire content, UGC, and archive material
- Add graphics, captions, subtitles, and branding
- Reformat 16x9 content into 9x16
- Pitch and package video ideas that complement trending news, lifestyle, showbiz, and feature stories
- Work closely with editors, producers, and digital teams to meet tight deadlines
- Ensure all content meets legal, copyright, and compliance guidelines
What You’ll Bring
- Proven experience as a video editor in a newsroom, digital publisher, or fast-paced media environment
- Strong skills in Premiere Pro
- A keen sense of editorial judgment and visual storytelling
- Ability to work quickly, accurately, and independently under pressure
- Understanding of audience engagement, SEO, and social-first storytelling
- Excellent attention to detail and strong communication skills
Contract Details
- Freelance
- Flexible working — remote or in office
- Competitive rate, depending on experience
DAILY MAIL
Daily Mail is an award-winning, multi-platform newsbrand reaching more than 33 million print and online readers each month. The world-famous Mail offers a unique blend of breaking news, agenda-setting exclusives, showbiz, Femail, health, sport and lifestyle stories across print, digital, video, audio and social channels.
Its global newsroom of journalists, formidable story-getting power, and breadth of content formats delivers highly engaging, trusted Daily Mail content to millions of loyal and new audiences. Founded in 1896, The Daily Mail is today the largest news publisher on TikTok, with more than 28 million total followers and more than 45 billion views in the past year. A trailblazing global phenomenon, Daily Mail is part of dmg media.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Our Commitment
We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.
We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.
