National Production Editor - Cape Town at Media24 (Pty) Ltd

Duties                                                 

Ensure that the team delivers sub, rewrite and layout work that meets the highest journalistic standards to offer a quality product to Netwerk24 and the newspapers' readers and help ensure that the publications fulfill their watchdog role in society by factual and ethical reporting that is compellingly written and packaged.

Ensure that deadlines are met,

Manage a team of subs, freelancers and pagers in such a way that they function efficiently and motivated in a stressful environment.

Stay on top of the news and daily events so people are quickly steered in the right direction to do the most important work first.

Skills and competencies

• Strong leader who can manage a large team in a stressful environment
• Good communication ability
• The ability to work in a digital, multi-platform environment
• Excellent language and sub-skills in Afrikaans
• A good news sense and feel for unfolding news that needs to be dealt with immediately
• The ability to respond quickly to news events and deploy the right people for each task 
• Excellent sub who can also quickly rewrite copy with the necessary knowledge of legal aspects and directives of the Press Code

Qualifications and experience

• An appropriate tertiary qualification
• More than 7 years of journalism experience, 5 of which must be in a production environment
• Management experience would be a plus – especially if it was in an editorial environment.

Closing date: 31 August 2023