Jobs at Media Trust Limited (Daily Trust)

Duties and Responsibilities

• Editorial Leadership: Supporting the Editor to manage the daily editorial operations of the Aminiya newspaper.
• 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 Hausa and English Language.

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Job Description

• 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, 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.

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Job Description

• We are looking for a highly competent, motivated, and results-driven Motion Graphics Designer to join our leadership team.
• This is a senior role, and the candidate shall be responsible for preparing daily incident reports, interoffice memos and ensure that allegations of crime and other incidents are investigated and properly recorded and reported.
• We are seeking a creative Motion Graphics Designer that can produce high-quality animations and video content for digital campaigns, social media, and broadcast.
• The ideal candidate will collaborate with producers and marketing teams to translate complex ideas into visually engaging 2D or 3D graphics.
• This position is more than a Motion Graphics Designer role. It is a chance to be part of a multimedia company that reaches millions of people daily.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Animation Production: Design and animate high-quality intros, lower thirds, transitions, and promotional content for TV and digital platforms.
• Concept Development: Collaborate with creative team to storyboard and visualize sequences from initial scripts.
• Video Integration: Edit raw footage and integrate motion elements, subtitles, and sound effects to enhance storytelling.
• Asset Management: Maintain an organized library of graphic assets and follow brand guidelines to ensure consistency.
• Platform Optimization: Render and optimize content for various formats, including TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.
• Rapid Breaking News Support: Produce immediate on-screen maps, data visualizations, and “breaking news” breakers to support live coverage as stories develop.
• Data Visualization: Translate complex Nigerian economic or political data into easy-to-understand animated infographics for diverse audiences.
• Collaborative Storyboarding: Work directly with journalists and digital editors to storyboard complex investigations, ensuring the visual narrative aligns with the editorial facts.
• Brand Stewardship: Maintain a consistent visual identity across all platforms, ensuring that the news brand remains recognizable regardless of the medium.

Required Skills/Qualifications 

• Education & Experience: A Degree in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience) and a minimum of 3 years in a similar role.
• Experience: 3–5 years in a media or production environment, with a portfolio showing both broadcast and social-first content.
• Mastery of Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and Illustrator
• Strong foundation in typography, color theory, layout, and the 12 principles of animation.
• Experience with broadcast-specific tools like Vizrt or 3D software such as Cinema 4D
• Understanding of different aspect ratios (16:9 for TV vs. 9:16 for mobile) and how to optimize renders for low-bandwidth digital consumption.
• Ability to work under extreme pressure and tight deadlines typical of a 24-hour news