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Job Description
The New York Post provides readers with the best in News, Sports, Pop Culture, and Entertainment – with signature wit, irreverence, and authority averaging 90 million unique monthly viewers. Over the past 224 years, The Post has evolved into a multi-platform media company spanning print, digital, video, audio, app, television, and commerce.
The New York Post is currently seeking an experienced
PT Temporary Photo Researcher to to support its Alexa Magazine team. Alexa is published 10+ times a year in an upscale broadsheet format and inserted into the New York Post, Alexa showcases luxury lifestyle trends and celebrity exclusives.
The ideal candidate is motivated, organized, and able to manage multiple projects and deadlines with clarity and focus. Strong time-management and prioritization skills are essential, along with the ability to learn and retain new information quickly. Because we are a lean team, each person’s role is an important part of a well-oiled machine. We’re looking for someone who supports that structure—staying focused on their responsibilities while contributing reliably to shared workflows. Meticulous attention to detail, strong fact-checking habits, and consistent follow-through are essential. An editorial background is ideal, and a proactive, self-starter mindset is a must.
The Assistant Photo Editor would support the Alexa Photo Editor and Photo Department as a whole on an as-needed basis.
This is a technical, administrative, and production-support role, rather than a creative or design-based position.
Flexibility required to work on an as needed basis, ranging from 1-5 shifts per week
Responsibilities Include
Photo Research & Asset Management
- Conduct fast, accurate image research for Alexa Magazine and the wider Photo Department on an as-needed basis
- Source photography from agencies, publicists, archives, internal databases, and direct outreach
- Negotiate licensing and fees when needed, following department guidelines
- Process high volumes of images with efficiency (batch renaming, resizing, metadata embedding, captioning, rights info). Per department workflow, basic color correction and simple crops are performed in this role. All advanced creative such as retouching, layout adjustments, and design-driven edits fall under the Art Department.
- Ability to identify and flag images that require correction, retouching or compositing for the Art/Design teams, but not performing those edits independently.
- Maintain the digital grid; create and update project folders; organize assets by production stage
- Prepare tidy, accurate selects folders for color and credit workflows
- Uphold editorial accuracy, rights compliance, and proper formatting in all delivered assets
Production & Administrative Support
- Maintain clear, timely communication across multiple platforms and parallel projects
- Participate as part of the Photo Department structure; while assigned to Alexa, any extra availability supports the PhotoDesk
- Gather and fact-check photo credits for print, digital, and social platforms, upholding editorial accuracy and proper formatting in all delivered assets
- Assist with Google Workspace tasks: callsheets, shared drives, decks, schedule updates, and file organization, with strong attention to detail in all prepared materials
- Support the Photo Editor on shoots in a Production Assistant capacity (coffee runs, pickups, greeting arrivals, on-the-ground logistics)
- Assist with HMU outreach, callsheets and general shoot logistics; arrange administrative details such as car services, catering, supplies.
- Be onsite for final color-correction checkpoints before ship, identifying color inconsistencies and relaying precise, actionable feedback for internal corrections to the appropriate channels.
- Contribute to our recurring “Cover Reveal” photo op, featured on our Instagram, by helping to ideate and capture a simple creative shot for each issue—this is a fun, contained creative assignment specific to this task and does not expand the role’s overall creative, editorial, or art direction scope.
Technical Skills Required
- Adobe Photoshop (basic color corrections, cropping, resizing)
- Photo Mechanic or Bridge for high volume ingesting, captioning, and metadata tagging
- Strong understanding of metadata fields, credits, and rights information
- Experience maintaining shared drives, project folders, precisely organized file structures
- Google Workspace
- Ability to effectively batch rename, resize, and prepare images for color and layout workflows
- Familiarity with photo agencies, archives, and sourcing best practices
- Clear understanding of editorial usage rights and licensing basics
To support smooth workflows, this role is intentionally administrative, technical, and production-oriented, not creative.
The following are not part of this role’s responsibilities:
- Developing visual direction, concepts, or creative strategy
- Producing graphics, designing layouts, or retouching
- Making final photo selects for stories or shaping editorial narratives
- Introducing changes to or overriding established departmental workflows and approval processes
These boundaries help ensure clarity, efficiency, and consistent editorial standards across the team
Qualifications
- At least 2 years experience in editorial, photo research, asset management, or a related field
- Strong organizational and time-management skills; ability to juggle multiple deadlines
- Comfort working in fast-paced editorial environments
- Strong research skills, knowledge of image licensing, and ability to work with current digital asset management systems, newsgathering and social media tools
- Keen ability to multi-task, and independently problem solve: if something is not readily available, how else are you able to source it
- Precise fact-checking habits and attention to detail for not only just images but also the captions and credits and other editorial documents you provide
- Professional communication skills and reliability
- Research and fact-check your work meticulously
- Strong picture judgement and editorial intuition; organically pursue outside-of-the-box resources
- Interest in fashion, luxury, lifestyle, and entertainment is a plus, but core strengths must be operational and technical
As an equal opportunity employer, the New York Post does not discriminate in hiring or the terms and conditions of employment because of an individual’s race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The New York Post will consider the provision of reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental disabilities of otherwise qualified applicants to enable them to participate in our application process and to effectively perform the essential functions of the job, unless doing so would impose an undue financial or operational hardship.
Pay Range: $34/Hr - $34/Hr
At the New York Post, we’re passionate about providing readers with the best in National News, Sports, Entertainment, and Lifestyle like only the Post can – with wit, irreverence and authority.
OUR BRANDS: Include The New York Post (https://nypost.com/) : expert news, extensive, award-winning sports coverage, and insider commentary, Page Six (https://pagesix.com/) : an influential leader in celebrity and entertainment news, Decider.com : helping the on-demand generation discover the best streaming content, and Alexa (https://nypost.com/alexa/) : our luxury lifestyle print edition focused on the best in luxury fashion, real estate and travel.
OUR REACH: People love us. We are one of the largest growing digital networks, averaging over 90 million unique visitors a month! Our social footprint continues to expand across Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/NYPost/) , Twitter (https://twitter.com/nypost) , Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/nypost/?hl=en) , TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@nypost?lang=en) , and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@nypost/videos) , where our videos average 313 million monthly views.
OUR PEOPLE: The Post team is a group of diverse, creative, passionate minds – ever evolving and innovating. We believe news doesn’t have to be boring to be news… so we make sure it isn’t!
OUR GROWTH: An ever evolving multi-platform media company, we span print, digital, video, social, podcast, app, commerce/affiliate, original TV programming, and Post Sports+ (https://nypost.com/account/subscribe) , our newly launched Sports membership experience!
We’re growing. Come join us!
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