NBC Looking For Animators/Going VR With Vice News Competitor

Need a gig?

NBC News has announced the launch of a digital-only spin-off called NBC Left Field. Similar to Buzzfeed and Vice News, NBC News wants to leverage its position as a news powerhouse by attacking the various platforms and apps in which we get news. Here’s a job listing that asks for some of the positions that they are looking to fill:

“NBC will soon launch a new digital-first team of reporters, filmmakers, animators, tinkerers, engagement producers, and video journalists tasked with rethinking what video news features and documentaries could and should look like in 2017.

This yet to be named studio will be an independent, off-site division of NBC News tasked with experimenting with emerging technologies and visual storytelling. The group’s work will be found at the intersection of technology, shoe-leather reporting, and avant-garde video storytelling — all aimed at mobiles, social, and set-top boxes. And we’ll begin our journey by developing innovative video products in several areas, including creative news-based documentaries (domestic and international) and VR — all while taking advantage of creative treatments as well as NBC’s internal mountain of archive.

What does a mash-up of filmmakers, journalists, designers, programmers, and a US media goliath that helped develop television look like? That’s what we’re coming together to figure out.”

Check out a teaser below that kind gives a brief as to what NBC News Left Field is looking for.

[h/t: Variety]