Reporter at Nation Media Group

Key responsibilities

• Developing, reporting and writing News and Feature stories for the Daily Nation in finished form, so that no major rewrite is required or no extensive additional report is needed;
• Attending assigned news functions, taking notes on location, carrying out interviews, checking facts and making audio/visual recordings as the case may be;
• Writing News or Features at their own initiative, choice and judgment or at the direction of either the Assignments Editor or Head of Content;
• Ensuring that the material written reflects a thorough understanding of Nation's style of journalism as defined in the editorial policy guidelines and objectives, the house style and the journalistic code of ethical journalism;
• Researching and providing background information to make stories complete;
• Briefing the Assignments Editor on stories gathered and writing the selected ones within set deadlines;
• Following news leads and maintaining close contacts with news sources;
• Continually building his/her contacts list and demonstrating its value with consistent exclusive reports or information;
• Responding promptly to news breaks;
• Responsible for the correctness of facts, content and style of his/her news materials;
• Checking the written stories to ensure that they are free from errors and libel;
• Closely cooperating with photographers from whom he/she orders pictures on the issues he/she covers;
• Generating stories for use on Group multimedia platforms;
• Filing all elements of digital story as per Digital First policy (alerts; social media; web story; multimedia) within defined deadlines;
• Adhering to the Editorial and Social Media Policy as updated from time to time.

Qualifications, Experience & skills

• University degree in Communication or its equivalent from a recognized institution;
• Diploma in Journalism/Mass Communication;
• 3 to 5 years relevant experience;
• Ability to communicate both internally and externally; and
• Analyse and simplify complex reports for our audiences.