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Job: Operations Co-ordinator – BBC Motion Gallery main point of contact to the Getty Images teams
Spotted on the BBC vacancies pages
BBC Worldwide Limited are looking for an Operations Co-ordinator:
‘In this role you will be in charge of providing administrative and financial systems support to the Head of Operations and Content and the wider Motion Gallery operations team. You will liaise with internal various WW departments, including SAP development, SAP support, Finance, CASPAR support and Talent Accounting to resolve issues and provide regular and ad hoc reporting from all available systems.’
‘This role will be a main point of contact to the Getty Images teams and support the partnership with Getty Images by identifying and analysing operational issues and being proactive to ensure that issues are managed and resolved in and efficient and effective manner. For this role you will be required to change and update new processes to accommodate the new partnership with Getty Images, this will include the Improvement of operational systems, specifically, support better management reporting.’
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Launched: BBC StoryWorks ‘a new content marketing team’
The commercial arm of the BBC has started a new content marketing team called BBC StoryWorks which will be funded via Brands wanting to sponsor/advertise documentaries produced by this new team.
They say: …’the new division will be led by Richard Pattinson, a former BBC journalist with over ten years’ experience, who has been appointed SVP of Content. The BBC StoryWorks team, based in Singapore, Sydney, New York and London, will span the globe offering clients content solutions built on compelling narratives that will engage audiences.’
BBC StoryWorks will form part of the wider award-winning BBC Advertising portfolio and will work in partnership with brands that complement the BBC’s content across BBC Worldwide and BBC Global News Ltd’s digital and TV platforms. These include BBC World News, Top Gear, BBC Good Food, BBC World Service, BBC Worldwide channels and BBC.com, the latter of which reaches a global audience of more than 80 million unique browsers per month. Elsewhere, on social media platforms BBC World News’ Facebook page has over 10 million likes and the BBC is the world’s most shared news brand on Twitter.
Carolyn Gibson, EVP, BBC Advertising, added: “BBC StoryWorks has been set up to bring BBC editorial quality and values to the fast-moving world of content. It brings together the boldness and innovative qualities of a creative studio with the agility, responsiveness and timeliness of the news room.
“It taps into the deep creative strength of the BBC, to deliver content for brands that captures audiences’ attention in ways that no other publisher can.”
The new team will offer clients:
• Branded content – commercial content owned by the brand.
• Partnered content – content produced in collaboration with advertisers.
• Sponsored content – content produced by the BBC, with advertiser sponsorship.
• As well as working with partners on events, research and social media to engage with customers more directly.
The Economist also announced a new video production unit which will attract Brand advertising rather than relying on click through revenue on it’s stories.
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Footage request: Traditional dancing Germany, Greece, Spain and Turkey – ‘handsome budget’
This in from a freelance multimedia researcher – can you help?
Hi Will,
‘After securing footage for a client of mine the license falling through so I am back at square one with no time left.
I am after footage that shows traditional dancing from: Germany, Greece, Spain and Turkey (please no Sufi’s or belly dancers). I only want to see your lovely footage if it has been shot in the last 20 years, in colour and can be used for commercial purposes online for 12 months. My budget is handsome.
• Send your links and footage samples to [email protected] – and I will forward them to the researcher directly.
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Job: Video Syndication Editor Bloomberg – New York
spotted on the Bloomberg careers pages
The Role: ‘The Video Syndication Editor is responsible for the selection, publication and distribution of video footage, interviews, packages and long-form programming on Bloomberg’s client-facing Photo and Video web portal, Media Source. The role reports into the Managing Editor for Visual Media and is responsible for management of a team of global video editors.’
‘The Video Syndication Editor’s main task is to identify content that is being created for Bloomberg’s consumer media outlets and adapt it for professional media client distribution – leveraging existing content creation for further commercial use. This includes preparation and delivery of newsroom ready content such as full length interviews and raw b-roll as well as packaged stories which may include multiple video sources, sound-bites and graphical elements. In time, platform curation will be added to the responsibilities, to handle multiple distribution outlets, and to feature relevant content prominently.’
Full Details and to Apply
Job: Photo/Video Editor – Bloomberg – London
Photo/Video Editor – London – GBR
The Role
The EMEA Visual Team seeks an experienced photo editor to work across digital, social and the Bloomberg terminal, with a proven track record of producing stills and video content. The editor will join the team responsible for all aspects of Bloomberg’s daily photo & video coverage across the region. The candidate must have a proven track record of assigning and managing photographers and be capable of servicing multiple stakeholders, whilst managing competing priorities.
Full details and to Apply on the Jobs page
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Go See: ‘Reporting Vietnam’ – Powerful photos and news footage – how journalists brought news about the war to a divided nation
Photo: Tim Page, under fire with Martin Stuart Fox at la Drang. Photographed by Steve Northup. Ia Drang Valley, in the central highlands of VN, on March 30, 1966. The scene was a terribly battle between members of A Company, 1/12, 1st Cav. They were very badly out maned, and we came close to losing everybody. Martin and I were a reporter/photographer team for United Press international. Tim was working for Time-Life. The battle took place near the Chu Pong massif, a well known bad neighborhood. Northrup found them behind the log and offered them a sip of his flask, Cordon Bleu. photo supplied
On Friday, May 22, the Newseum (Washington, D.C) will open “Reporting Vietnam” a provocative new exhibit that marks the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, America’s first televised war. The exhibit explores the dramatic stories of how journalists brought news about the war to a divided nation. It will be on display through Sept. 12, 2016.
Powerful photos and news footage, evocative music and more than 90 compelling artifacts, historic newspapers and magazines will take visitors back to experience a time when America was at war and young people were rejecting the conservative values of their parents. Included are more than 100 dramatic images, including memorable Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs that have come to symbolize the struggle both in Vietnam and at home. Interactive kiosks in the exhibit showcase interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers who took some of the most iconic images of the war, and the memorable protest songs that provided the soundtrack for a generation.
Where: Newseum
When: Starts Friday, May 22, at 9 a.m. until September 2016
Photo of Ut, camera, light meter, envelope and press passes: Loan, Nick Ut – photo supplied
Thanks for the press opening invite Alexis – next time!
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Watch: ‘Animal Copyrights’ – stock imagery created by nature
Melchor Sangro, Director at stock photo agency LatinStock, sent us this video about a new initiative called Animal Copyrights just launched.
Hello Will,
I hope you are well.
Please find attached the launching video of our latest campaign AnimalCopyrights in collaboration with WWF Spain. I think it’s an interesting initiative that’s worth sharing with your readers. Ad agency Cheil Spain, worked with us and WWF to create the campaign.
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Press Photo History Project – mapping press photography
The FootageNews.com.com team have been woking on our Press Photo History Project this week ….we recently had a new cash donation after helping reunite a retired Daily Mirror newspaper reporter/photographer John Smith with his photo archive. (search: JScollection). That donation has enabled us to start installing and tweaking a new wordpress theme and dealing with the backlog of orphan images licensing requests.
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ITN Source signs global crowdfunding platform
ITN Source, the footage licensing division of ITN in London just signed up with global crowd funding platform Indiegogo ‘to provide the necessary tools for documentary filmmakers to achieve maximum success’. In addition to supporting research and providing ITN Source footage, the partnership will also give Indiegogo campaigners direct access to view full television programmes and films from the ITV Studios collection that ITN Source represents. Indiegogo is democratising the way ideas get funded and realized across the globe. From 2013-2014 alone, funds raised by film campaigns in the UK have increased 75% a number that will only grow with this new partnership.
Andy Williams, MD of ITN Source, said: “For those of us with a passion for documentaries it is vitally important that we all play our part in ensuring they get made with as much creative freedom as they deserve. We hope that our partnership with Indiegogo will help achieve that objective in some small way.”
Miranda Fleming, Head of UK Film & Creative for Indiegogo said: “This is a fantastic partnership which will give global documentary filmmakers a unique opportunity to access the knowledge, expertise and archival footage from ITN source for use in their Indiegogo campaign pitch films. I very much hope this will contribute to the ever-growing number of documentary campaigns on Indiegogo. Our partnership with ITN Source reinforces Indiegogo’s position as the ideal partner for filmmakers throughout their creative journeys, from fundraising to distribution.”
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Pond5 releases image auto-tagging – automatically generates keywords for contributors uploading stock video
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Newly installed ‘cutting-edge’ image-recognition software at stock marketplace Pond5 surveys videos and photos to determine the most effective keywords. Footage of a beachside sunset, for instance, might generate keywords like “beach,” “sunset,” “tropical,” and “waves,” among others. Those tags make it easier for buyers to find relevant clips, and help artists make more money. Artists can still manually add keywords of their own if they prefer.
“We’re always looking for ways to make our contributors’ lives easier,” said Pond5 cofounder and CEO Tom Bennett. “With auto-tagging, we’re helping them make more money while eliminating the most tedious part of the uploading process.”
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