Reporter / Presenter at Daily Trust

Duties / Responsibilities

• Present live day-to-day news content across media platforms
• Engage the viewers and reflect the values of the channel
• Broadcast in a manner which is engaging, entertaining and readily understandable by a non-specialist audience.
• Provide clear treatments and proposals, ensuring consistency of content, quality and style.
• Prepare, coordinate, and edit on-air material for daily News, current affairs.
• Work under extreme deadline pressure to create compelling stories.
• Ability to field report and maintain accuracy, fairness, and ethics.
• Make the best use of new technologies - in particular developments in social media in delivering journalism to audiences and to set an example in learning to operate new systems and adapting to different working methods.
• Line producing skills and experience with non-linear editing.
• Contribute to the planning and other output duties.

Qualifications / Requirements

• A trained journalist with a strong journalistic background. Bachelor’s Degree / HND in Journalism, Communications, or related field,
• A minimum of at least 3 years’ experience.
• Experience of reporting and presenting.
• Should demonstrate balanced and objective judgement based on a thorough understanding of Editorial guidelines, target audience, programme and department objectives
• Knowledge in editing and different story– telling techniques.
• Advanced skills in using Adobe programs (Premiere, Photoshop After Effects).
• Ability to work effectively and quickly on more than one project at the same time.