Reporter-Crime at Nation Media Group

Key responsibilities

• Developing, reporting and writing news stories/articles on the crime beat so that no major rewrite is required or no extensive additional report is needed;
• Maintaining crime news sources and calling them for updates;
• Sourcing exclusive crime stories, and ensuring that they are factual credible, well researched, and balanced;
• Ensuring that the stories written conform to journalistic code of ethics and the Editorial policy guidelines and objectives, the house style and submitting them within set deadlines;
• Checking the written stories to ensure that they are free from errors and libel;
• Following news leads and developments from published stories;
• Closely cooperating with photographers from whom he/she orders pictures on the issues he/she covers;
• Primarily responsible for correctness of facts, content and style of his/ her news materials;
• 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.