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Postmedia News hiring a tablet producer/designer

Postmedia Network Inc. is looking for a full-time Tablet Producer/Designer and visual storyteller to play a leading role in developing content for the company’s forthcoming tablet apps. Postmedia Network Inc. is looking for a full-time Tablet Producer/Designer and visual storyteller to play a leading role in developing content for the company’s forthcoming tablet apps. Roles…

Postmedia Network Inc. is looking for a full-time Tablet Producer/Designer and visual storyteller to play a leading role in developing content for the company’s forthcoming tablet apps.

Postmedia Network Inc. is looking for a full-time Tablet Producer/Designer and visual storyteller to play a leading role in developing content for the company’s forthcoming tablet apps.

Roles and responsibilities:

  • Works closely with tablet producers to develop interactive features and ways of telling stories that are unique to the tablet
  • Designs the app’s cover, top stories and complex interactive features
  • Provides design and visual-storytelling guidance for tablet content to Postmedia writers, editors, photographers and designers, and staff from Postmedia’s daily newspapers

Qualifications:

  • A passion for editorial design and storytelling that uses the tablet’s immersive and interactive qualities
  • A proven ability to combine words, still and moving images, graphics and other audio and visual assets to create immersive and interactive experiences
  • A proven ability to create informational graphics or data visualizations
  • A collaborative style of working
  • An ability to innovate and suggest new approaches as technology changes and new opportunities arise
  • An interest in and knowledge of a broad range of news and current events
  • A high degree of experience using Adobe inDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
  • Experience with Adobe DPS, HTML5, motion graphics or video editing is preferred

Should you be interested in this opportunity please forward your cover letter and resume to: careers@postmedia.com

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Application Deadline: January 10, 2013 

Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

No agencies please.

 

Tamara Baluja is an award-winning journalist with CBC Vancouver and the 2018 Michener-Deacon fellow for journalism education. She was the associate editor for J-Source from 2013-2014.