Reporter at eMedia Investments

Description

• The individual is responsible to report on daily news stories through live coverage and packaged content.

Reporting

• Work collaboratively with cameramen and other members of a reporting team.
• Attend and report on events that are of interest to the public.
• Deliver scripted, spontaneous, live, and prerecorded reports on newsworthy events.
• Provide compelling packages with content for television.
• Conduct live reports from the field ensuring accuracy and objectivity.
• Ensure that stories have depth and quality.
• Conduct in-studio lives that are professional and informative.
• Respond to breaking news events quickly and accurately
• Provide the news desk with regular updates on stories by adhering to the editorial deadlines.
• Ensure adherence to story deadlines.
• Take a multi-media approach to individual stories done by use of graphics and animations thereby ensuring good quality, still pictures as well as moving visuals and overall content are shared, prepared and edited properly and ready for air.
• Ensure a professional appearance, language use, and manner throughout reports.

Interviews

• Deliver high-quality live and recorded reports, maintain strong news contacts, and ensure compelling multi-platform content.
• Represent the organization at events, including: conferences, press briefings, events, and interviews.
• Interview a range of people - eye-witnesses, authorities, and people of interest in news stories, newsmakers
• Briefs the Camera Operator and Interviewee prior to broadcast.
• Storyboards
• Conduct preliminary telephonic interviews.
• Ask probing and follow-up questions.
• Ensure interviews contain a variety of voices and/or angles.
• Conduct interviews with people involved in the story, either in-person or remotely
• Conduct live and on camera interviews that are hard-hitting and probing.

Research

• Identify, investigate, and verify news stories, attend meetings, and ensure factual accuracy.
• Identify newsworthy events, conduct in-depth research, attend diary meetings, and generate compelling stories.
• Conduct research and write scripts on topics prior to broadcasts.
• Attend weekly diary meetings to pitch, discuss story ideas and developments and plan the week ahead with the team.
• Check electronic media (wires), social media and articles of interest.
• Check archives for specified and appropriate visuals.
• Stay updated with the latest local, national, and international news.
• Research and gather information on current events and news stories.
• Receive assignments or investigate news leads/tips
• Identify exclusive or unique storytelling opportunities.
• Maintain a high accuracy rate with minimal fact-checking revisions required.

Script Writing

• Write well-researched, accurate scripts aligned with visuals for balanced and fair reporting.

Requirements

Qualifications

• National Diploma in Media Studies and/or Television and/or Journalism and/or Communications
• Bachelors Degree in Media Studies and/or Television and/or Journalism and/or Communications is recommended

Experience

• 5 - 8 years in News, Television, and/or Broadcast Journalism
• Drivers Licences - Essential