Job Vacancies at eMedia Investments

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.

Stakeholder Relationships and Networking

• Engage actively in discussions, ensuring collaboration across multiple teams.
• Build strong relationships, develop sources, and collaborate with media teams.
• Develop contacts and sources for use in reporting
• Collaborate with editors, colleagues
• Balance workloads effectively to maximize efficiency and minimize last-minute chaos.
• Effective and efficient management of teams for targeted audience/s. 

Requirements

Qualifications

• National Diploma in Media Studies /Television /Journalism and/or Communications - Essential
• Bachelors Degree in Media Studies /Television /Journalism and/or Communications - Recommended

Experience

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

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Sub-Editing

• Review, edit and proofread all news content for accuracy, brevity, clarity and adherence to editorial guidelines.
• Ensure content is verified, unbiased and free from factual errors and legal risks.
• Ensure alignment with the company’s style guide.
• Identify and correct grammatical, factual and stylistic inconsistencies.
• Verify information and flag discrepancies with the Sub-Editing Supervisor.
• Write clear, creative and compelling headlines, intros and captions.
• Rework stories where necessary for readability and flow.
• Fact-check names, places, dates and sources.
• Optimise content for multi-platform use (TV, web, mobile).
• Support programme teams by reviewing and editing varied content, to ensure editorial accuracy and readiness for breaking news.

Bulletin Content

• Assist production teams in reviewing bulletin rundowns.
• Ensure accuracy and consistency across scripts, on-screen text, headlines, promos and live reads.
• Edit and voice content when needed.
• Re-angle stories to maintain relevance and audience engagement.
• Advise on effective visual representation of stories.

Collaboration & Communication

• Collaborate with Producers to refine story angles and content.
• Work closely with Reporters, Anchors and Editors to clarify story elements and maintain editorial standards.
• Participate in editorial meetings, contributing ideas and constructive feedback.

Deadline Management

• Sub-edit and finalise content ahead of publication deadlines.
• Deliver rapid turnaround of breaking news copy and scripts without compromising quality and credibility.
• Meet the editorial and output demands of a fast-paced newsroom environment.
• Maintain accuracy and high standards under pressure, especially during live breaking news stories.

Stakeholder Relationships

• Foster strong interpersonal and team relationships to maintain a stable, productive work environment and support team objectives.
• Participate actively in editorial meetings, offering clear guidance and constructive feedback to Reporters, Anchors, Editors and other team members.
• Communicate respectfully and collaboratively with Reporters and Producers.
• Help refine story angles and enhance content quality.
• Work closely with Producers, Reporters and Editors to ensure clarity, creativity, consistency and editorial integrity of all content.
• Collaborate with legal and compliance teams to ensure all content adheres and meets South Africa’s broadcasting laws and ethical standards.
• Mentor and support Reporters and Producers to strengthen scriptwriting creativity and skills, and improve overall newsroom performance.
• Contribute meaningfully to content planning and story development discussions, offering insights to align coverage with editorial strategy.

Requirements

Qualifications

• National Diploma in Content Generation / Communication / Journalism - Essential

Experience

• 3 years in Sub-Editing/Newsroom or Editorial Environment - Essential
• Drivers Licences - Recommended