Senior Digital Archivist/Researcher

DallasNews Corporation

Dallas, TX

Full Time

Senior

about 1 month ago

Job Description

About the Role

The Dallas Morning News has an exciting opportunity for a senior digital archivist and researcher with strong creative, visual and digital skills. Join us in producing first-class journalism and in revitalizing an archive that informs, inspires, and brings new life to the rich history of the North Texas region. The primary purpose of the role is to build, design and cultivate The Dallas Morning News Archive as well provide technical expertise, research support, and contribute to newsroom content and initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Manage projects containing born-digital, digitized and analogue materials for organization, description, ingestion, storage, preservation and access
Oversee aspects of editing, design, organization and evaluation of the archival digital asset management system
Manage the processing of digital and physical assets to ensure their long-term storage and accessibility
Develop and implement technical scripts to optimize the ingestion of assets
Manage the evaluation and maintenance of physical archives, including clips and microfilm
Collaborate on archival projects and stories with newsroom staff
Provide guidance and instruction to newsroom staff on effective research techniques and tips
Develop and deliver presentations that promote the archive to members, the public and newsroom staff
Create content for online and print, social media posts and newsletters as well as stories, oral histories and other creative projects
Work with licensing archival content
Troubleshoot archival technical issues and implement creative solutions
Use knowledge of research techniques to contribute to newsroom-wide initiatives and content
Contribute to non-archival content, intelligence gathering and newsroom research training
Assist research editor with refining policies and procedures regarding the archive and its use

Requirements

Master's degree in archival sciences, library/information sciences or equivalent required
Five to 10 years of experience in archives, research, database maintenance, libraries or newsrooms preferred
Experience with either newspaper digitization projects, docWorks metadata software, Web design, WordPress, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python and/or writing experience is a plus
Experience with DAMS, digital archives scanning, digitization, photos, microfilm and physical materials needed
Knowledge of DFW history and news is helpful

Nice to Have

Experience with either newspaper digitization projects, docWorks metadata software, Web design, WordPress, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python and/or writing experience

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