Job Vacancies at Premium Times

Ideal candidates should have the high-level ability:

• To edit news stories, features, and opinion pieces for clarity, grammar, accuracy, and style, ensuring that content is engaging and publication-ready.
• To identify more robust or more relevant angles buried within stories written by reporters and others.
• To develop content strategies that align with Premium Times’ editorial vision, audience preferences, and current affairs.
• To enrich reports with relevant background, analyses and context.
• To accurately interpret statements/stories even when missed by reporters and other editors.

Candidates must also:

• Be organised, able to meet deadlines and juggle various tasks while at the same time maintaining a high level of attention to detail and maintaining overall editorial quality.
• Stay informed on current events, emerging trends, and audience interests to continuously adapt the editorial direction.
• Be an agent of change.
• Possess strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills.
• Have proven experience as an editor with at least 5-7 years.
• Have good interpersonal relations skills.
• Possess an inquiring mind and logical reasoning.
• Be willing to work.
• Have a deep passion for journalism and a commitment to accuracy and truth.
• Have an aversion to corruption.

The ideal candidates should reside in any of the states in the South-West or Northern regions and have a deep understanding of current political, economic, and social issues in those regions.

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Ideal candidates should have the high-level ability:

• To uncover complex stories, an in-depth understanding of investigative techniques, and the ability to manage high-stakes investigations that drive impact.
• To lead our team on major investigative projects.
• To edit news stories, features, and opinion pieces for clarity, grammar, accuracy, and style, ensuring that content is engaging and publication-ready.
• To identify more robust or more relevant angles buried within stories written by reporters and others.
• To ensure comprehensive coverage of major local, national, and international stories, with a strong emphasis on investigative journalism and in-depth reporting.
• To develop content strategies that align with Premium Times’ editorial vision, audience preferences, and current affairs.
• To enrich reports with relevant background, analyses, and context.
• To accurately interpret statements/stories even when missed by reporters and other editors.

Candidates must also:

• Be organised, able to meet deadlines, and juggle various tasks while at the same time maintaining a high level of attention to detail and maintaining overall editorial quality.
• Stay informed on current events, emerging trends, and audience interests to continuously adapt the editorial direction.
• Be an agent of change.
• Possess strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills.
• Have proven experience of at least 5-7 years of handling high-profile investigations that lead to significant public impact.
• Have good interpersonal relations skills.
• Possess an inquiring mind and logical reasoning.
• Have a deep passion for journalism and a commitment to accuracy and truth.
• Have an aversion to corruption.
• Be willing to work.

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Ideal candidates should have the high-level ability:

• To spot grammatical and factual errors and clean up copies.
• To identify more robust or more relevant angles buried within stories written by reporters and others.
• To properly contextualise reports.
• To enrich reports with relevant background, analyses, and context.
• To accurately interpret statements/stories even when missed by reporters and other editors.

Candidates must also:

• Be an agent of change.
• Possess strong writing skills.
• Have an aversion to corruption.
• Have proven experience as a standard/copy editor.
• Have good interpersonal relations skills.
• Possess an inquiring mind and logical reasoning.
• Be willing to work.
• An academic background in the English Language is an added advantage.

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Ideal candidates should have the ability:

• To collect, verify and analyse newsworthy information.
• To write and deliver audience-centered news stories that can enhance our audience’s rights to know and guide them to make informed decisions.
• To provide live reports from scenes of events and illustrate stories with multimedia elements – text, photo, audio, video, and graphics.
• To evaluate and investigate news leads/tips to generate great and impactful stories for publication.
• To stay up to date with events on their beats and demonstrate mastery of the subject they cover or report about.

Candidates must also:

• Be dynamic, self-driven, and hard-nosed.
• Be able to smell and unearth even the best-concealed news and information.
• Have a strong commitment to the ethics of the journalism profession.
• Possess good writing and interviewing skills with the ability to extract relevant information about technical and complex topics and turn it into clear, concise, and conversational content.
• Have a proven work experience as a reporter for at least 3-5 years. Outstanding candidates with fewer years of experience may be considered.
• Have an aversion to corruption.
• Have good interpersonal relations skills.
• Possess inquiring minds and logical reasoning.
• Be organized, able to meet deadlines and juggle various tasks while at the same time maintaining a high level of attention to detail and sustaining overall work quality.
• Have the eagerness to learn and adapt to new situations and environments.
  Be able to travel at short notice.
• Candidates for the South-West position are expected to be based in Lagos State and should have a deep understanding of current political, economic, and social issues in the region.