August 26, 2024

POV: Life as a nonprofit’s multimedia editor part II

You are your nonprofit’s first multimedia editor. It has been six months since you joined, and here’s how things stand.

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In your first week, you complained of having no work and a lot of free time. Six months in, you are working on multiple video projects with multiple teams, with more video deliverables being pitched to clients:

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When the editorial team asks if it will be possible to script, produce, edit, and publish a video within a week because the funder has given a tight deadline:

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When the video is due to be published tomorrow but someone comes in with a last-minute change that is ‘quick and easy to do’:

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When the funder keeps coming up with a brand new change in the video on every feedback call, despite being sent five different drafts over the past week. The voice inside your head:

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When you have had a long, tiring week where you published three videos in five days, and it is Friday evening so you finally shut your laptop to leave. But someone from the team stops you to ask for an update about that reel for next week:

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Shriya Roy

Shriya Roy is a multimedia editor at IDR, where she is responsible for managing and building video content. Prior to this, she was a journalist for six years across print, TV, and digital newsrooms. She worked as a researcher at NDTV, as a correspondent with The Indian Express, and as a multimedia editor at Feminism in India. Shriya received the Human Rights and Religious Freedom (HRRF) journalism grant in 2022 and produced a documentary exploring caste bias in grassroots cricket in India. She has worked extensively on covering sports at the intersection of gender and human rights. Shriya holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University.

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