Manager, Rights & Clearances

Our Rights and Clearance Team is looking for a R&C Manager to work with the growing Versant news properties, including MSNBC and CNBC. This role will handle the clearance and licensing of 3rd Party elements from acquiring rights to footage and stills to clearing UGC material for use across Versant platforms, from digital to television, to audio, marketing and longform. This role will support news entities, so will often include deadline pressure, and will involve securing and verifying social newsgathering content, in partnership with Standards and Newsgathering. Responsibilities: Acquire and negotiate license agreements with 3rd party vendors, including Sports, Entertainment and News entities for use of footage and stills for MSNBC and CNBC platforms. Partner with Newsgathering and Standards on locating, verifying and clearing Social Newsgathering content under tight, breaking news deadlines. Ability to make calls and report out video use agreements for use across news platforms. Evaluate the status of acquired rights and potential restrictions in programming to ensure the ability to repurpose in ancillary markets around the world. Act as a liaison between standards, platforms, newsgathering, legal, finance and archives for all rights and clearances matters. Update and manage internal database to indicate copyright source, contracts and license agreements. Review license agreements to ensure necessary rights are obtained and flag any potential issues to management. Update and manage database to indicate copyright source, contracts and license agreements. Research sources to determine copyright status of materials, review documents, screen tapes to determine footage usage and compliance.