Job Details

The Dallas Morning News has an exciting opportunity for an Archivist with strong creative, visual and digital skills. Join us in revitalizing an archive that informs, inspires, and brings new life to the rich history of the North Texas region.

The Digital Archivist's primary purpose is to help build, design and cultivate The Dallas Morning News Archive as well as to provide technical archival support, research support for historical information and contribute to content produced from the archives.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Assist with projects containing born-digital, digitized and analogue materials for organization, description, ingestion, storage, preservation and access

• Assist with editing, design and organization of front and back end of archival site 

• Complete quality control reporting according to current archival standards

• Troubleshoot archival technical issues and implement creative solutions

• Support ongoing digitization and newsroom preservation projects 

• Use professional research and archival techniques for digital, print and other initiatives

• Assist research editor with refining policies and procedures, performing evaluation and maintaining of physical archives including clips and microfilm 

• Perform routine administrative functions including, but not limited to, microform handling, materials and digital asset inventory reports and information collection

• Create content for online and print, social media posts and newsletters as well as  stories, oral histories and other creative projects

• Work with licensing historic content 

• Individual collection building and research projects assigned as needed

• Collaborate on archival projects with researchers and newsroom staff 

• Collaborate with the local historical community 

• Attend lectures, functions, interviews, seminars and offsite meetings 

• May help train staff, interns and practicum students

The Dallas Morning News believes a collaborative and inclusive work environment is essential to a thriving workplace. We are in search of a diverse group of candidates. It’s our mission to reach underserved communities, many of which include Spanish-speaking families. Fluency in Spanish is an advantage.

We are in the office three days a week. We believe time in the office is essential to a thriving and inclusive workplace where we develop and support one another as we produce revelatory work with our community in mind.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree in archival or library/information sciences preferred. 

• Experience: Three to five years of experience in archives, research, database maintenance, libraries or newsrooms preferred. 

• Experience with either newspaper digitization projects, metadata, writing scripts, 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