Freelance Video Editor Breaking News and Studio Shows

Job Position(s): Freelance Video Editor Breaking News and Studio Shows

News UK is hiring a Freelance Video Editor for Breaking News and Studio Shows based in Portsmouth, England. This role sits within the digital video team at The Sun, cutting content across breaking news packages, studio show segments, and social-first formats for one of the UK’s highest-traffic news publishers. It’s the kind of chair that suits an editor who’s equally comfortable turning a news clip in under an hour and shaping a polished studio show sequence from a full day’s shoot.

About the Role

The Freelance Video Editor for Breaking News and Studio Shows works inside The Sun’s post-production workflow, handling output destined for web, social platforms, and broadcast-adjacent studio productions. A typical day moves between monitoring the news wire, ingesting rushes, and hitting short turnaround deadlines without sacrificing the punch and clarity the brand demands. You’ll work directly alongside journalists, producers, and on-air talent depending on the project in the chair.

Key Responsibilities

• Edit breaking news video packages to broadcast and digital publishing deadlines, maintaining clarity and editorial accuracy under time pressure.
• Cut studio show segments from multi-camera rushes, applying tight pacing and appropriate graphics treatments for web and social distribution.
• Operate camera when required, covering news assignments that feed directly into your own edit pipeline.
• Use Adobe Premiere Pro as the primary NLE, managing project organisation, media ingest, and export across multiple simultaneous deliverables.
• Create supporting graphics and title treatments in Photoshop, ensuring assets meet platform-specific spec requirements.
• Apply editorial judgment across a broad content mix including current affairs, sport, showbiz, and TV coverage to produce cuts that perform on social and digital platforms.

What You Bring

• Demonstrable professional experience editing across news, studio productions, or short-form digital video post-production workflow.
• Expert-level proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro, with Photoshop used as a standard part of your graphics process.
• A working knowledge of current affairs, sport, showbiz, and entertainment that informs editorial decisions at the edit point.
• Experience operating cameras in a news or documentary context, comfortable shooting and editing within the same production cycle.
• A portfolio or reel that shows range across fast-turnaround news edits and more structured studio or feature-format cuts.

Why This Role

The Sun operates at genuine scale, with video content reaching audiences across every major digital and social platform in the UK market. For a freelance editor, the volume and variety of work here builds a credit list across news production, studio shows, and social video in a single engagement. News UK has the infrastructure of a major publisher behind it, which means the tools, the access, and the stories are there.

Apply now for the Freelance Video Editor for Breaking News and Studio Shows position at News UK and bring your edit skills to one of the country’s most widely read news brands.