Content Creator responsible for researching and preparing current events for social media. Working in a dynamic environment with direct impact on a large audience's content.
About the role
- Reporter at The Pioneer collecting and analyzing newsworthy information for local coverage. Writing and delivering news stories with a focus on community journalism.
Responsibilities
- Collect, verify and analyze thoroughly newsworthy information
- Assemble findings into a stable story
- Write and deliver news stories with the reader’s perspective in mind
- Receive assignments or investigate news leads/tips
- Abide by journalism’s ethics and codes
- Contact, interview and research sources
- Maintain notes, photos and audio recordings
- Cooperate with reporters, chief editor, producers etc.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest current events in the “beat” by studying papers, attending events etc.
- Revise work to meet editorial approval or to fit time or space requirements.
- Review written, audio, or video copy and correct errors in content, grammar, or punctuation and layout pages following prescribed editorial style and formatting guidelines.
- Develop ideas or material for columns or commentaries by analyzing and interpreting news, current issues, or personal experiences.
- Communicate with readers, viewers, advertisers, or the general public via mail, email, telephone or in person.
- Write columns, editorials, commentaries, or reviews that interpret events or offer opinions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications or related field, or other degree and related experience.
- Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
- Knowledge and use of AP Style
- Knowledge in maintaining and driving a digital-first thinking in the newsroom to being able to study and determine trends based on analytics.
- Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process
- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Ability to take photos for print and online use, as well as tone and prepare photos for publication. Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Requires meeting strict deadlines
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