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  SEBASTIAN VEGA
  • @WSJ Social Video
  • @nytimes Instagram
  • NYT Snapchat
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• Create square, captioned, short-form news videos for Twitter with WSJ’s social video team
• Produce, script, shoot and edit markets and personal finance videos daily under tight deadline constraints
• Shoot and interview reporters in newsroom and studio with Sony FS5 and light setup
• Develop, pilot and launch health and markets video series for Twitter
• Write social copy for videos and work with social team to distribute videos
• Adapt 1900x1080 video for social audiences
• Occasionally re-edit square cuts to 1900x1080 for wsj.com

Disney confirmed Disney+ will stream on Amazon’s Fire TV devices. Heard’s @AaronBack explains why the company’s streaming service needs all the viewers it can get. #WSJWhatsNow https://t.co/TQRFgecWmY pic.twitter.com/eWWm1oMMHe

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) November 8, 2019

December college graduates are entering a hot job market. But employers expect more from new hires, @laurenweberWSJ reports. #WSJWhatsNow https://t.co/DCnniVQtHK pic.twitter.com/R95XuEi1I1

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) December 11, 2019

#WSJWhatsNow: Who were the markets’ winners and losers this week? @paulvigna explains. pic.twitter.com/CK2VUjYso3

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) September 27, 2019
• Managed and operated The Times’s flagship Instagram account, @nytimes, both solo and alongside editors
• Produced (wrote, edited, designed and published) Instagram Stories as well as tracked Story analytics (reach, link opens, etc.)
• Curated feed by selecting, cropping and posting photos, videos and illustrations
• Wrote highly-vetted paragraph post captions based on Times reporting
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• Worked on a team of editors and motion designers that published daily editions of content on Snapchat Discover
• Wrote concise, mobile-friendly vertical stories for Snapchat Discover (my writing examples below)
• Wrote and curated 6-item news briefings
  • Snap Host
  • Emerging Storytelling
  • Social Video
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I developed, hosted and produced a weekly Snapchat news show that brings USC 3 of the most important campus stories of the week.
360 Video
Audiograms
Push Alerts
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I've produced social videos at CNBC, NBC Nightly News, NBC Los Angeles (KNBC) and USC Annenberg Media.
My pieces have received upwards of 30 millions views per video.
Here's some of my work.
  • FB Live
  • Broadcast
  • Audio
  • Writing
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On 4/20: Inside a Medical Marijuana Dispensary

Where are all these bugs coming from?

USC's Game Design Program was ranked #1 by The Princeton Review. We're doing our first 360 Facebook live from the School of Cinematic Arts' Mixed Reality Studio talking to two students from the program.

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Flashback: ‘Struggling, Weeping, Hysterical Teenagers’ (The New York Times)

What we learned from working with vertical video on Facebook (Annenberg Media Lab)

​Philadelphia program throw away dogs turns strays into police K-9 superstars (NBC News)

​LA father and son create kid-friendly smartphone plan (NBC Los Angeles)
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USC says it’s providing extra counseling services in response to a student’s death on campus (USC Annenberg Media)
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​​Students protest Garner decision on campus (The Daily Texan)
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​Hospitality workers strike new agreement with USC (Daily Trojan)
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CEO of Snapchat discusses new media (Daily Trojan)
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Television star RJ Mitte spoke on equality (Daily Trojan)

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