19 Mar
2023
Full-Time Reporter, PLANSPONSOR – Kano
Job Description
The Reporter’s primary focus should be on state government and state-level politics, but this is not a must. That is, both governing and voting politics count. On average, the Reporter will be tasked with filing two to three articles per week on breaking news events and other timely topics, as well as conducting in-depth investigations to uncover previously unreported information (e.g., at least every couple of weeks).
Job Title : Reporter, PLANSPONSOR
Location : Kano, Kano, Nigeria
Salary : $ 19.94 per hour.
Company : Citywire
Job Type : Full-Time
Qualifications:
- Use social media and other information-gathering platforms to spread your stories.
- It would also require understanding online federal and state reporting systems, keeping an eye on public disclosure forms, doing research on them, and submitting records request forms.
- Write pitches for tales and finish work on stories that have been assigned. In this position, the managing editor will serve as your superior.
- Create strategies that clearly state a vision and strategy for the coverage of the arts in close collaboration with editors and content creators.
- The journalist will also be responsible for tracking donations, PACs, lobbying, conflicts of interest, and other areas where money plays a role in politics, as well as covering and finding stories related to these issues.
- As circumstances dictate, you may also be asked to take still photographs, shoot video, or shoot and produce on-camera video segments about your reporting.
- Talk with the local arts communities and constantly interact with the important stakeholders.
- Keeping up with a daily filing routine may occasionally necessitate working on the weekends.
- Discover and develop engaging art-related narratives for use in a variety of media formats, including podcasts, the web, video, and broadcast audio.
- stories that involve intersections of art, culture, and marginalized groups should be explored.
Skills:
- competence with or familiarity with audio production fundamentals and practices.
- A bachelor’s degree and three years of experience working as a professional journalist, with significant expertise covering the arts, or a comparable combination of education and experience.
- Possess the ability to independently and cooperatively work, as well as to represent the station in a professional manner.
- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook proficiency is a plus. Access to social media like Facebook, Twitter, and others is highly desired.
- a command of the English language at a proficient level and the capacity to explain specialized concepts to a broad audience