Island Recruiting
Job Summary:
Job Description:
We are seeking a Multi-Modal Media Journalism Producer to support the creation, production, and distribution of high-quality journalism and media content across multiple platforms. This role is ideal for a candidate with a strong foundation in journalism, English, media, or reporting, combined with a high level of comfort using modern technology and emerging AI-driven tools.
The successful candidate will bring strong editorial judgment, reporting discipline, storytelling ability, and technical competence across a range of media formats. They will be capable of helping shape content for written, audio, video, digital, and social channels, while also leveraging advanced tools such as large language model AI and agentic AI systems to improve research, production workflows, and audience reach.
This is a part-time role, with the potential to be expanded or complemented by other internal responsibilities depending on the candidate’s skills, interests, and demonstrated capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Research, develop, produce, and support journalism-based content across multiple platforms and formats.
- Assist with story development, background research, interviewing, fact-checking, and editorial preparation.
- Write, edit, and adapt content for digital, print, audio, video, and social media use.
- Support multimedia production workflows, including content planning, scripting, post-production coordination, and publishing.
- Help manage and optimize content across various mediums, ensuring consistency in quality, tone, and accuracy.
- Use technology effectively to streamline editorial, production, and distribution processes.
- Apply large language model AI and related tools responsibly to support ideation, drafting, summarization, research organization, and workflow efficiency.
Required
- Experience in journalism, reporting, media production, communications, or editorial work.
- Strong writing, editing, and storytelling skills.
- Solid understanding of journalism standards, reporting practices, and editorial ethics.
- Good command of technology and confidence learning and using new digital tools.
- Demonstrated competence working across multiple media formats and platforms.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and work independently in a dynamic environment.
Preferred
- Degree or formal education in Journalism, English, Communications, Media Studies, or a related field.
- Experience with digital publishing, podcasting, video production, or social media content creation.
- Familiarity with large language model AI, prompt design, AI-assisted content workflows, and emerging agentic AI systems.
- Work with agentic AI tools and automation systems where appropriate to enhance productivity and content operations.
- Collaborate with internal teams on communications, media initiatives, and related projects.
- Take on additional internal responsibilities as capabilities and organizational needs evolve.
- Technical competence with modern media, editing, and production tools across written, visual, and audio mediums.
- Experience in a newsroom, media organization, digital publication, or similar fast-paced content environment.
The ideal candidate is:
- Curious, organized, and editorially disciplined
- A strong communicator with sound news judgment
- Comfortable moving between journalism and production tasks
- Technically capable and excited by the evolution of media tools
- Adaptable, practical, and able to contribute across formats and functions
- Interested in helping shape modern journalism in a multi-platform environment