Looking for a multimedia junior journalist in Durban North.
Job responsibilities:
- As a Multimedia Journalist the successful incumbent will be responsible for driving content and generating ideas for local community news for use across all editorial platforms
- Produce newsworthy stories that are well researched, accurate, balanced and well written
- Produce high quality stories that are error free and ready for publication for all platforms
- Establish a strong network of contacts
- Editing copy that complies with legal, style and space requirements
- Follow up stories
- Use social media to drive readership
- Supply links, pictures, audio and or videos
- Use social media to break news and engage with online audience
- Generate ideas for unique story packages and community focus and reader engagement
- Manage a personal diary
- Initiate stories
- Meet the deadline demand of the title whilst projecting a positive image
Job requirements:
- Must have a tertiary qualification in journalism or equivalent.
- Must have at least 1 year journalism experience working on multiple platforms
- Having a formal training qualification in multimedia journalism would be advantageous.
- Have a flair for tackling and writing a wide variety of stories.
- Have a strong presence on social media with a number of followers.
- Must have a valid driver’s licence.
- Must have extensive contact base.
- Be technologically well advanced on all social network platforms
- Excellent public speaking and presentation skills in gathering news and presenting news
- Have excellent interpersonal skills in dealing with high level contacts
- Must have the ability to think creatively.
- Be a self - starter that shows initiative and ability to work independently.
- Be extremely motivated and driven to work in a highly pressurised fast pace environment.
- The ability to work under constant deadlines pressure
Send CV and portfolio / writing samples.
