The Role
Manage daily news media library operations, including receiving, barcoding, logging, archiving, cataloguing, retrieval, and fulfillment of production requests. Review and correct AI-generated labels, people tags, and transcripts; monitor AI processing workflows in Avid MediaCentral and MCUX; troubleshoot metadata issues; meet cataloguing targets; and ensure copyright and content-reuse restrictions are accurately documented.
Summary Generated by Built In
Main duties:
- Handle the daily operations of News Library in terms of news media content of newly recorded bulletins and programs through receiving, bar coding, logging, archiving and retrieval.
- Fulfil News production staff requests for archived footage and content while working on their bulletins or/and/or programs.
- Correctly identify and approve the relevant labels generated by the AI for Asharq content, and add new labels where necessary. This will enable newsrooms to find the shots they need more quickly and easily.
- Accurately identify important and key people in archived content, ensuring they're tagged by the AI and training the AI to detect them where necessary. This will enable newsrooms to find shots of these people more quickly and easily.
- Ensure transcripts are generated in the correct language by the AI for archived content where relevant.
- Use of a web-based platform and video player to efficiently review and process AI generated metadata.
- Use Avid Media Central to check and review incoming AI-generated metadata and volume of updated content in order to identify and help trouble shoot potential issues with workflow processes.
- Thorough understanding of MCUX and search.
- Meet team and individual AI processing and cataloguing targets, with the ability to self-monitor progress against target.
- Archive and accurately catalogue media, ensuring the content can easily be searched and located by the production teams, and copyright and restrictions are correctly and clearly flagged.
- Good understanding of copyright and content re-use restrictions.
Skills Required
- Experience handling media content through receiving, barcoding, logging, archiving, cataloguing, and retrieval
- Ability to review and correct AI-generated metadata, labels, people tags, and transcripts
- Experience using Avid MediaCentral
- Thorough understanding of MCUX and search
- Understanding of copyright and content reuse restrictions
- Ability to meet and self-monitor AI processing and cataloguing targets
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The Company
What We Do
Asharq is a 24/7, multiplatform Arabic-language news service operated under the Saudi Research and Media Group (SRMG). Launched in November 2020, it delivers television and digital coverage of regional and global news, with particular emphasis on economic and financial affairs. Its portfolio includes general news, Asharq Business with Bloomberg, analysis, and technology-enabled content distributed across websites, social media, and other formats.






