SUMMARY:
SENIOR DIGITAL JOURNALIST – PREMIUM
POSITION INFO:
One of our esteemed clients, being a leader in the online and print news industry, have 2 exciting full time, permanent, office-based opportunities for Senior Digital Journalists within their Editorial (Digital) Department, reporting to the Digital News Editor and working on Premium content – paid content behind the paywall.
Senior Digital Journalists:
The journalists will write long form investigative pieces and unique content for behind our paywall (subscribers only – paid content – Premium articles); thus, 2 Premium Senior Digital Journalists. Need to have a good background in politics, current affairs and hard news and a good contact book (courts, police etc)
Purpose of the Job:
To cover news events assigned by the Editors and to produce unique, accurate and well-written stories daily for our publication.
Main Responsibilities:
- Plan and write fresh, accurate copy to deadline for all platforms, in co-operation with the Digital News Editor and Digital Editor.
- Manage your own daily diary, and pitch unique story ideas, with creative angles and elements.
- Create, publish, and promote multimedia content, working independently as well as with the multimedia team.
- Researching of articles.
- Gathering of news from a variety of reliable sources.
- Interviewing sources.
- Covering important events/issues timeously.
- Staying up to date with privacy, contempt and defamation laws.
- Establishing and maintaining a network of contacts.
- Adhere to Code of Ethics and Editorial Standards and Practices.
- Monitor and effectively use social media to pick up news leads and story ideas, as well as promote your work.
- Upload and publish stories using the company’s CMS.
- Assist with online administrative functions as directed.
- Mentor and coach junior staff members.
- Monitor analytics constantly.
- Utilise analytics to maximise all stories and articles published.
- Adhere to Google algorithm requirements and write with SEO and Google search in mind.
- Study and adhere to the organisations Style Guide.
Core Competencies Required:
Knowledge:
- Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Journalism.
- Minimum 5 years’ mainstream journalism experience.
- Talent for writing, coupled with a keen interest in breaking news and current affairs and politics.
- Established network of contacts.
- Newsroom and current affairs writing experience.
- Ability to adapt to changing news and media scene, with a keen interest in new media
Skills:
- Experience using any CMS (Wordpress, Joomla, etc.)
- Experience in using Adobe CS, Final Cut or other video editing tools, or audio editing tools.
- Basic Photography/videography skills
- Communication skills.
- Relationship-building skills.
Aptitude:
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Deadline driven.
- High degree of professional journalistic conduct.
- Ability to work both independently and in a team.
- Availability to work overtime and on weekends.
- Ability to work speedily but accurately.
Other Requirements:
- Valid driver’s license
- Own reliable vehicle
Remuneration
Remuneration is negotiable around R45 000pm All interested candidates to send their updated CV’s in word format and their current/previous remuneration details to
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