The Role
Catalogs, indexes, archives, and retrieves digital media assets, ensuring accurate metadata, accessibility, usage-rights compliance, and quality. Supports journalists, producers, editors, and digital teams with urgent content requests, coordinates media ingestion workflows, maintains MAM/DAM systems, and contributes to audits and process improvements.
Summary Generated by Built In
Main Duties: Media Archiving & Asset Management
- Catalog, index, and archive video footage, photographs, and other digital media assets in the organization’s media asset management system.
- Ensure all archived materials are properly tagged, categorized, and stored according to established metadata and archival standards.
- Maintain the integrity and accessibility of the digital media archive to support newsroom and editorial needs.
- Provide timely retrieval of archived materials requested by journalists, producers, editors, and digital teams.
- Assist editorial teams in locating relevant footage, images, and historical materials to support news coverage, reports, and feature stories.
- Support urgent newsroom requests during live coverage and breaking news situations.
- Coordinate with editorial, production, and digital teams to ensure proper ingestion and documentation of newly produced media assets.
- Monitor media workflows to ensure accurate archiving and compliance with internal media management procedures.
- Assist in maintaining efficient operational processes within the Library & Media department.
- Ensure the accuracy, quality, and completeness of archived materials and associated metadata.
- Verify usage rights, licensing information, and source attribution where applicable.
- Maintain compliance with organizational policies related to content management, copyright, and media usage.
- Support the operation and optimization of the organization’s Media Asset Management (MAM) or Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems.
- Assist in updating and improving archival systems, processes, and workflows to enhance accessibility and operational efficiency.
- Contribute to periodic audits and reviews of archived media content.
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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.
