Content Creator

Position Title: Content Creator

Department: Student Media

Advertised Pay: $10 per hour

Campus Location: Washburn University

Position Summary:

Reporters - Photographers - Videographers - Podcasters

Reports within Student Media write stories, take photos, create videos and podcasts for the Washburn Review newspaper, website, and Indigo Magazine.

About Washburn University: 

Washburn University is a teaching-focused, student-centered, public institution located in the metropolitan setting of Topeka that has earned national recognition for its high-impact programs for first-generation students. Washburn has a student body of just over 7,000 students, a significant and growing number of whom are first-generation and Pell-Grant eligible. The University has created educational pathways for all students to be successful and achieve their educational goals.

Washburn is dedicated to recruiting and retaining a dynamic faculty, staff, and student body and cultivating a robust learning and working environment and curriculum. We employ more than one thousand faculty and staff on our campuses throughout Topeka and strive to offer competitive wages, an excellent benefits program, and a supportive culture and a healthy work/life balance. Washburn seeks to create an environment that reflects our core values for creating positive IMPACT: inclusion, modernization, partnership, achievement, community and transformation. In 2024, Washburn was recognized as one of the best colleges in the nation to work for, according to Great Colleges to Work For® program.

Essential Functions:
Students must be willing to arrange face-to-face interviews with students, faculty and staff on campus to report on the news and create content.
Students may be asked to attend campus events as working members of Student Media.
Students must be able to write stories and create content for publication that adhere to journalistic standards, are factually correct and relevant to the campus community.
Students are expected to complete a minimum of two content assignments per week.
Students are expected to be available for the mandatory Student Media organization meeting on Mondays from 5:30 - 6:20 p.m., individual team meetings, and other coaching sessions to improve their writing and mandatory training sessions.
Student reporters agree to be cross-trained and to work in teams.

Non-Essential Functions:
Student Media will train students without previous journalism background.

Required Qualifications:

Basic knowledge of computers required

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience editing audio and/or video is preferred for podcasters and videographers.
Experience working in a professional office environment preferred
Experience working with the English language preferred

Special Instructions to Applicants: 

Stipend Monthly Exempt, Part time
Background Check Not Required