Senior Digital Journalist - Johannesburg, South Africa - The Recruiters

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Verified Company
Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

Thabo Mthembu

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Title:


SENIOR DIGITAL JOURNALIST - PREMIUM (2 vacancies):


Salary:


  • Market Related
  • Very Negotiable

Description:


  • Province: Gauteng
  • City: Industria West, Roodepoort
  • One of our esteemed clients, being a leader in the online and print news industry, have 2 exciting full time, permanent, officebased 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.
  • Purpose of the Job:
  • To cover news events assigned by the Editors and to produce unique, accurate and wellwritten stories daily for our publication.
  • Main Responsibilities:
  • Plan and write fresh, accurate copy to deadline for all platforms, in cooperation 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.

Category:


  • General

General Requirements:


  • 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.
  • Relationshipbuilding 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-
Location:
  • Johannesburg

Consultant:

**Ruarke Kerr
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