Freelance Production Assistant, Media Desk

Job Position(s): Freelance Production Assistant, Media Desk

FOX News Media is hiring a Freelance Production Assistant for its Media Desk in New York, New York. This role sits inside the broadcast news workflow, handling video ingest, metadata tagging, and archival logging for the incoming daily feed across FOX News Channel and FOX Business Network. It’s a good entry point for someone who wants to build real post-production workflow experience inside a live television news operation.

About the Role

The Media Desk functions as the intake and preservation layer of FOX News Media’s broadcast operation, processing the high volume of video that moves through the network each day. A Production Assistant in this department spends their shift attaching editorial metadata, logging shots for archive, and ingesting physical media into digital systems, all while the live news pipeline is running around them. Depending on department availability, the schedule runs either full-time or part-time freelance, with the possibility of converting to a staff position with full benefits.

Key Responsibilities

• Attach editorial metadata to large volumes of incoming video footage as part of the daily broadcast news workflow.
• Produce shot-by-shot logs for video selected for permanent archive, maintaining accuracy across high-volume material.
• Use video hardware to ingest physical media into the network’s digital asset management system.
• Transcribe speeches and statements in real time as they relate to breaking news situations.
• Monitor quality control standards across video and audio levels to meet broadcast specifications.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects across the post-production workflow without losing detail under deadline pressure.

What You Bring

• A bachelor’s degree in Broadcasting, Journalism, or Communications is preferred.
• Knowledge of iNews and Dalet Galaxy is a plus for this broadcast television environment.
• Strong working knowledge of current events, which directly informs editorial judgment on a news desk.
• The ability to work flexible shifts, including weekends and holidays, as required by a live broadcast schedule.
• Experience juggling several simultaneous projects in a deadline-driven production setting.

Why This Role

FOX News Media reaches 200 million people each month across cable, digital, streaming, and audio, making this Media Desk role genuine exposure to one of the largest broadcast television operations in the country. The role pays between $17.79 and $22.00 per hour, with the final offer depending on education, skills, and experience. For someone targeting a career in broadcast news production, the potential path to a full-time staff position here carries real weight on a resume.

Apply now for the Freelance Production Assistant role at FOX News Media and put your broadcast production skills to work at the Media Desk.