Job Description
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THERE WILL BE A COMPULSORY ONE-WEEK TRIAL AFTER PASSING THE INTERVIEW STAGE.
Employer: My ideal candidate is someone irreligious, but not essential.
To excel in this role, you should be a natural storyteller. The successful applicant must be able to demonstrate an ability to write investigative articles, feature stories, and analytical pieces. In addition, be self-motivated and have exceptional written and verbal communication skills. If you spell "I am" as "am", "You" as "u", etc, you will be blocked instantaneously. English in word and speech is non-negotiable.
Responsibilities:
- Assessing leads and pitching captivating story ideas to editors.
- Random Vox Pop, sometimes, travel vox pop.
- Ensuring that you meet all regular and recurring deadlines.
- Reviewing and editing work for editorial approval.
- Using all your findings to prepare clean, concise, and factual articles
- Adhering to the ethical code of the profession.
- Keeping records of all notes, interviews, and audio files.
- Creating trustworthy relationships with contacts and sources for use in future research
- Keeping up-to-date on the latest news developments by attending events, studying different papers, opinion pieces, and social media
- Collecting, verifying, and deciphering data.
- Write and direct documentaries without supervision.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, English, or a relevant field
- Minimum of 2 years of working experience as a journalist or reporter.
- Capable of maintaining an ethical and objective standard in reporting.
- Ability to meet deadlines and accurately fact-check information.
- Excellent observation and judgement skills.
- Superb communication and networking skills, along with an aptitude to effectively extract information.