TV Business Reporter at Royal Media Group

Key roles & responsibilities

• Generating ideas for news stories and news features especially in business
• Following leads on news from sources;
• Generating news idea;
• Researching and compiling relevant information into credible TV news stories.;
• Writing scripts for bulletins;
• Selecting appropriate locations, pictures and sound and exercising judgment on the best story angle;
• Identifying necessary resources and deploying/managing field assignments crews;
• Providing input, advising crews on what to film or record;
• Using appropriate equipment to record and edit for news;
• Preparing and presenting material ‘on air’ for both pre-recorded and live pieces;
• Identifying potential interviewees, briefing them, preparing interview questions and conducting both live and recorded interviews;
• Preparing timings for each news item and monitoring these during broadcast;
• Developing and maintaining useful contacts and relations with news sources;
• Understanding and complying with media law and industry codes of conduct.

Academic and professional/work Experience

• Degree in journalism, mass communications or any other related field OR
• Degree in social science and post-graduate training in journalism or mass communication
• A Post Graduate Degree in Journalism
• At least two years relevant experience in a busy newsroom in a media house covering all aspects of news planning, gathering, editing and airing.

Essential Competences

• Excellent written and spoken English and/or Swahili. Capacity for bilingual reporting (English/Swahili) will be an added advantage
• A keen interest in business news, ability for quick thinking, persistence, personal initiative and a good memory
• Sound knowledge of the local and international social, political and economic news-shaping environment
• A clear communicating voice
• Ability to report accurately and impartially.

Key Considerations

• Willingness to work for long hours and on short notice
• Willingness to travel locally and abroad including to difficult and dangerous locations in the line of duty