News Reporter

6 days ago


Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom My Local News Full time

**MAIN OBJECTIVES**:

- Sourcing stories and features for the magazines
- Pitching new editorial ideas to the team
- Proofing my own work to ensure grammar and spelling is correct
- Proofing the magazines after the sub-editor & senior reporter and before the magazine is sent to print
- Writing advertorials for clients
- Conducting interviews for stories and advertorials both in person and over the phone
- Adhering to house style and adapting for advertorials
- Managing/creating the news list for the magazines in which I take a lead reporter role
- Assigning stories to the other reporters for these four magazines and keeping up to date with any ideas or contributions they wish to make
- Ensuring the magazines have a balance of editorial coverage (news, crime, features)
- Suggesting front cover ideas (headlines and pictures) to the news editor, predominantly for ‘my’ four magazines but also contributing ideas and opinions for the other magazines
- Talking through the news list for ‘my’ four magazines with the news editor and keeping her up to date with any changes to the list
- Keeping the news editor informed as to what my ‘strongest’ stories are for each magazine and which have the potential to be leads or double page spreads
- Informing the news editor/design team of my ideas/visions for the layout and design of particular stories - i.e. DPs and SPS copy
- Writing catchy headlines and picture captions
- Liaising with the other reporters to keep track of what stories we are working on to avoid duplication and ensure a variety of editorial content
- Sourcing images to run alongside my editorial
- Going out to photograph events/places/people if a suitable image cannot be sent to the office
- Ensuring the originality of all photographs (copyright issues)
- Keeping on top of the local and national news to ensure topical coverage and to find an ‘angle’ to current national stories that would work for our publication
- Maintaining strong relationships with the local dignitaries and residents of each community
- Attending council meetings and events
- Answering the phone and dealing with any requests that I am equipped to answer within my role or passing messages onto other departments/ the editor
- Uploading stories and images to the website and ensuring that at least one of my stories or press releases is uploaded to the web every day
- Updating multiple twitter accounts

**JOB REQUIREMENTS**
- NCTJ Qualified or appropriate experience
- A passion for writing and publishing
- Approachable
- Good news judgement
- Able to work to strict deadlines
- Strong work ethic as deadlines are tight
- Adherence to dress code
- Able to work as part of a team
- Good people skills
- Reactive to hard and immediate news and proactive in difficult situations
- Good time management
- Strong command of English grammar, spelling and comprehension
- Excellent telephone manner
- Must be able to multi task and work under pressure

Pay: £23,800.00-£24,500,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person



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