Senior Digital Journalist

22 hours ago


Johannesburg, South Africa The Recruiters Full time

**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, 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.
- 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.

**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.
- 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-
**Location**:

- Johannesburg

**Consultant**:
**Ruarke Kerr


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