Social Media Video Fellow, Insider Inc.
Summer 2025
Online news platform
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Online news platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To inform and inspire the digital generation and become the most influential and loved journalism brand in the world.
Role
Who you are
- Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to multitask
- The ability to communicate clearly about their time management
- Work experience with one or more social media platforms
- Experience in packaging stories for publication
- A passion for digital storytelling and voracious reading habits
- Familiarity with digital and social media
- The ability to work quickly and collaboratively with a fast-paced team
- Proofreading and copyediting skills
- A love of Business Insider and our mission to serve readers with the information and inspiration they need in a way that’s accurate, fair, fast, and fun
What the job involves
- Business Insider is hiring a Social Media Video Fellow to join our Audience team
- This fellow will distribute videos across various social networks and ensure our episodes reach our viewers
- Business Insider is for people who are driven, optimistic and always looking forward
- Our mission is to inspire action through thought-provoking stories
- We tell our audience what they want and need to know to improve their lives and the world with storytelling that is accessible, smart, sometimes unexpected, and always helpful
- Our team members embody and uphold Business Insider’s three core values: we are all one team, we are effective, and we strive to get better every day
- 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 paid role requires you to work for 40 hours a week
- Fellowships can be hybrid, and we expect New York-based fellows to come into our offices at least twice per week
- As a Social Media Video Fellow, you will be responsible for distributing new videos and stories on social channels as they are published, as well as recirculating dozens of evergreen archive videos per day
- We work with content from all verticals, including breaking news
- The ideal fellow must be an independent worker
- Note: this is NOT a video editing or production role
- This fellow will report directly to the Senior Audience Engagement Producer and is required to work at least two days per week out of Business Insider’s New York City bureau
- Upload and distribute fresh videos daily across all Business Insider channels on social platforms, including but not limited to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok
- Generate compelling headlines, copy, and descriptions that grab the audience's attention and convey the essence of the video or story
- Create thumbnails using Photoshop to optimize visual appeal and click-through rates
- Ensure timely distribution of breaking news videos and stories across relevant social channels
Application process
- Please apply with a resume and cover letter and specify why you're interested in working on this team
Our take
Insider - that entered the market at roughly the same time as fellow digital news and media names Buzzfeed, Vice, and HuffPost - has steadily and solidly built itself into one of the most familiar digital platforms for business, current affairs, finance and tech news.
Insider was founded by well-known trader and entrepreneur Henry Blodge. The company was sold to German giant Axel Springer in 2015, which signalled an uptick in its performance. This undoubtedly helped it to weather the storm of the pandemic, which hit advertisers hard, and saw many platforms like Insider's lose out on their major revenue stream.
Setting itself apart from the likes of Buzzfeed by staying focused on journalism, rather than moving sideways into entertainment, Insider's disciplined approach has paid off, and its subscriber numbers continue to steadily rise. Having established itself in the digital news space, at a time when more and more consumers are reading articles online, it can be assumed it will find further success in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2015
$25m
SERIES F
Mar 2014
$12m
SERIES E
Total funding: $55.6m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Unlimited vacation
- Generous family leave policy
- 401k with match
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Henry Blodget
(Chair & Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Managing Director and Senior Analyst at Merill Lynch. Was CEO of Cherry Hill Research.
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