Deadline: Not yet stated
Premium Times Services Ltd, Publishers of PREMIUM TIMES, is a media company with headquarters in Nigeria.
The newspaper is seeking young reporters to strengthen its coverage of the South-East and South-South geo-political zones of Nigeria.
Requirements:
Ideal candidates should have the ability:
- To collect, verify and analyse newsworthy information.
- To write and deliver audience-centered news stories that can enhance our audience’s rights to know and guide them to make informed decisions.
- To provide live reports from scenes of events and illustrate stories with multimedia elements – text, photo, audio, video and graphics.
- To evaluate and investigate news leads/tips to generate great and impactful stories for publication.
- To stay up to date with events on their beats and demonstrate mastery of the subject they cover or report about.
Candidates must also:
- Be dynamic, self-driven and hard-nosed.
- Be able to smell and unearth even the best concealed news and information.
- Have strong commitment to the ethics of the journalism profession.
- Possess good writing and interviewing skills with the ability to extract relevant information about technical and complex topics and turn it into a clear, concise and conversational content.
- Have a proven work experience as a reporter for at least 3-5 years. Outstanding candidates with less years of experience may be considered.
- Have aversion for corruption.
- Have good interpersonal relations skills.
- Possess inquiring minds and logical reasoning.
- Be organized, able to meet deadlines and juggle various tasks while at the same time maintaining a high level of attention to details and sustaining overall work quality.
- Have the eagerness to learn and adapt to new situations and environments.
- Be able to travel at short notices.
Candidates for the South-East position are expected to be based in Enugu while those for the South-South should be based in Port-Harcourt. They should have deep understanding of current political, economic, and social issues in their respective regions.
Employment Type: Full Time
How to Apply:
Interested candidates should send a detailed curriculum vitae, cover letter of interest, and two writing samples or links to published stories in a single word document emailed to [email protected]
(kindly indicate ‘REPORTER -SOUTH-EAST’ OR ‘REPORTER-SOUTH-SOUTH’ ‘as the subject of the mail).
