Jobs at Daily Trust (Media Trust)

Summary

• The Sub-Editor for Aminiya will, among other job responsibilities, be responsible for ensuring that all news and feature content is accurate, grammatically correct in Hausa, and adheres to the company’s editorial standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Content Management & Editing: Reviewing, editing, and curating news, features, and multimedia content in Hausa, ensuring accuracy, high journalistic standards, and adherence to company values.
• Content Strategy & Planning: Creating content (both news and long-form) and setting the editorial agenda, including planning stories.
• Digital Transformation: Driving digital adoption, including managing content for the Aminiya online platforms to increase digital footprint and audience engagement.
• Mentorship and Supervision: Supervising reporters, sub-editors, and contributors to ensure the production of quality content.
• Quality Control: Ensuring that all content meets the high standards of accuracy, ethical, and stylistic guidelines.
• Performance Tracking: Monitoring audience feedback and industry trends to refine the content strategy.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Degree in Journalism, Mass Communication, Hausa language, or a related field.
• Fluency in Hausa (written and spoken) is essential.
• Strong knowledge of the Nigerian media landscape.
• Exceptional command of the Hausa language.
• Experience: At least 5 years of journalism experience, with a minimum of 2 years specifically as a sub-editor.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in computer usage and familiarity with digital publishing tools/CMS.
• Soft Skills: Ability to work under intense pressure and meet strict daily deadlines with meticulous attention to detail.

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Summary

• We are seeking an ideal candidate to lead our Audio Visual team, who acts as the technical architect of a content factory, ensuring that a single story can be simultaneously packaged for TV, radio, digital, and social platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the allocation of central resources—such as camera crews, mobile journalism (MoJo) kits, and edit suites to support multiple platforms from a single source.
• Manage the “Superdesk” technical infrastructure, ensuring unified content management systems (CMS) allow editors to see the full multimedia picture in real time.
• Lead the production of “story-centric” content where a single report is formatted as a TV package, a radio bulletin, and a social media clip simultaneously.
• Direct live newscasts and multi-platform broadcasts, ensuring smooth technical execution across web and traditional airwaves.
• Maintain quality control for all visual and audio designs, including on-air graphics and digital assets.
• Design and maintain a unified technology stack that supports non-linear workflows, reducing asset duplication and “copy-pasting” between departments.
• Implement and upgrade newsroom software for video switching, audio mixing, and live streaming (e.g., WebEx, Livestream, BlackMagic ATEM).
• Stay ahead of emerging trends such as AI integration, video-first podcasting, and emerging distribution platforms.
• Lead a multi-skilled team of audio producers, videographers, and digital journalists, fostering a culture of collaboration across departmental boundaries.
• High professional integrity with a deep understanding of Nigerian media laws and ethical journalism.
• Oversee post-production tasks such as video editing, sound design, and content archiving.
• Lead troubleshooting and repair of hardware and software components.
• Act as the lead technical authority for large-scale live events, broadcasts, and webcasts.
• Collaborate with creative teams to realize artistic visions through sound reinforcement and visual displays.

Required skills & qualifications 

• Education & certification: Degree in Broadcasting, Media Production, or Information Technology. 
• Experience: At least 10 years of journalism experience, with a minimum of 5 years leading a multimedia team.
• Experience: Significant leadership in broadcast or digital news, with a proven track record of managing large, diverse technical teams.
• Converged skill set: Advanced knowledge of both traditional broadcast engineering and digital/social media formats.
• Strategic vision: Ability to translate audience research into technical requirements that meet evolving news consumption habits.

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Summary

• We are seeking an ideal candidate to lead a cross-functional editorial team in our new converged newsroom, ensuring the seamless integration of artificial intelligence tools in news gathering, content production, and multi-platform distribution.
• The ideal candidate will maintain the highest standards of journalistic integrity while leveraging AI to enhance speed, personalization, and audience reach in the Nigerian market and beyond.

Key Responsibilities

• Editorial Leadership & Strategy: Conduct daily meetings to set content priorities for all platforms.
• Multi-Platform Content Management: Oversee the “content factory” workflow, ensuring raw stories are adapted into platform-specific versions—such as Print, TV and social media
• Quality Control & Ethics: Act as the final “gatekeeper of truth,” editing for accuracy, clarity, and adherence to style guides while ensuring all content meets strict ethical and legal standards (e.g., NBC codes and libel laws).
• Digital Optimization: Monitor audience analytics and SEO trends to refine editorial strategies and maximize engagement
• Strong leadership, excellent storytelling ability, and the capacity to work under tight deadlines.
• Direct the “Intake” and “Output” cycles, coordinating with reporters, digital editors, and broadcast producers to ensure a unified editorial voice.
• Edit stories for accuracy, legal compliance, and tone across TV scripts, web articles, print, and social media threads.
• Use live audience analytics to pivot coverage, prioritizing breaking news or trending topics based on viewer engagement.
• Ensure “breaking news” is updated on all our platforms immediately while simultaneously preparing depth-driven packages for linear broadcast.
• Assign “story owners” to oversee the lifecycle of a report from the first tip-off to the final evening broadcast/social media wrap-up.
• Planning, developing, and selecting stories for publication based on audience interests and breaking news.
• Verifying the accuracy of stories and checking sources to avoid legal issues like libel or copyright infringement.
• Ensuring all content adheres to ethical guidelines, maintaining objectivity, and accuracy.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Degree in Journalism, Mass Communication, or a related field.
• 5+ years of editorial leadership experience in a reputable newsroom, with a proven track record in cross-platform newsgathering.
• Exceptional news judgment, the ability to make decisive calls under tight deadlines, and strong interpersonal communication
• Ability to handle both “Intake” (newsgathering/wires) and “Output” (quality control/deadlines) in a fast-paced environment.
• High professional integrity with a deep understanding of Nigerian media laws and ethical journalism.