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  • Posted: Oct 3, 2018
    Deadline: Oct 9, 2018
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    The Nation Media Group (NMG) founded by His Highness the Aga Khan in 1959 has become the largest independent media house in East and Central Africa. It has been quoted on the Nairobi Stock Exchange since the early 1970s. As the leading multi-media house in the East African region, it has print as well as electronic media and the Internet which attracts a reg...
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    Reporter

    Job Description

    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.

    Required Skills:

    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.

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    Reporter-Crime

    Job Description

    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.

    Required Skills:

    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.

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    Parliamentary & Political Affairs Editor

    Job Description

    Key responsibilities

    • Being the lead writer for the beat, personally responsible for writing the big parliamentary and political stories, analyses and editorials;
    • Planning the work of the political and parliamentary teams to ensure a marketing leading flow of exclusives and thoughtful content;
    • Taking responsibility for the quality and quantity of the parliamentary and political content of print and digital platforms;
    • Establishing and maintaining relations with news sources such as legislators, political leaders and party officials;
    • Assessing the political climate and anticipating likely developments for coverage;
    • Briefing and guiding reporters on coverage and writing of stories;
    • Ensuring that section reporters write stories and deliver them within the set deadlines;
    • Reviewing the stories filed to ensure that they meet editorial objectives, house style and journalistic ethics;
    • Working in liaison with the Head of Content and Chief Sub Editor to choose the main parliamentary and political stories of the day/week, writing or re-writing them;
    • Checking stories to ensure that they are free from errors and libel;
    • Mentoring reporters, monitoring their productivity and general content and appraising their performance;
    • Participating in product development meetings;
    • Ensuring delivery of digital content; and
    • Adhering to the Editorial and Social Media Policy as updated from time to time.

    Required Skills:

    Qualifications, Experience & skills

    • Bachelor's degree in Communication or its equivalent from a recognized institution;
    • Diploma in Journalism;
    • Five (5) years of relevant experience;
    • Ability to communicate both internally and externally;
    • Ability to analyse and simplify complex reports for our audiences;
    • Analytical skills; and
    • Ability to lead a team of journalists.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Nation Media Group on career.staffingsoft.com to apply

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