Multimedia Journalist

Position: Multimedia Journalist

Position Type: Full-Time, one-year contract

Location: St. John's, NL (Remote)

Division: The Telegram

The Company:

Postmedia is a Canadian newsmedia company representing more than 130 brands across multiple print, online and mobile platforms. Award-winning journalists and innovative product development teams bring engaging content to millions of people every week whenever and wherever they want it. This exceptional content, reach and scope offers advertisers and marketers compelling solutions to effectively reach target audiences. We are always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our team.

The Opportunity:

The Telegram is seeking a multimedia journalist to join our team in St. John’s, NL.

Our ideal candidate is skilled at web reporting, proficient at writing articles about the news of the day quickly and efficiently and can condense information in a way that explains or analyzes what’s happening for our online readers.

Driven by the demands of speed and online readership growth, the multimedia journalist must flexibly juggle assignments as well as generating ideas for content to attract and keep readers returning to thetelegram.com daily. A strong understanding of SEO and best practices for web is considered a bonus, as is familiarity with platforms like Wordpress, but support and training will be provided.

We’re looking for someone who is interested in diving deeper into issues that impact the lives of people in Newfoundland and Labrador, ideally with a keen interest and strong understanding of provincial and municipal politics. Familiarity with current events is considered essential.

Our candidate is a team player, willing to work with colleagues to do investigative pieces or larger projects, and able to work independently, as this is a work-from-home role. However, the candidate must be able to provide in-person coverage of events in the St. John’s metro region.

The ability to use digital tools to identify news needs and maximize ways to meet them is critical to the position, as is working closely with the managing editor and assistant news editor.

The position is a unionized job in St. John’s, working with a remote newsroom.

What you’ll do:

• Reporting and writing stories for our website, as well as tailoring content to meet the varying needs of our platforms.
• Skilled with using social media to find sources, story ideas and topics of interest to the community each day and respond to explain why these talking pieces are important to NL
• Respond quickly to stories that are important to our readers, turning around pieces that will help grow readership online by providing context, analysis and explanations.
• Initiating and developing ideas for enterprise stories and investigative projects.
• Cultivating sources and establishing expertise in order to break stories.
• Working with digital teams to create other multimedia elements.
  
  

Who you are:

• Experience at a news organization in a deadline-oriented reporting/writing role.
• Fluency in digital platforms, multimedia journalism and social media.
• Ability to work quickly and independently, meet multiple deadlines, and make efficient decisions.
• Ability to work constructively as part of a newsroom team.
• You live in St.John's Newfoundland.
  
  

Applications:

Interested applicants should apply without delay, including a detailed resume and a covering letter explaining why they are ideal for the position.

We thank in advance all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates under consideration will be contacted. Only candidates legally eligible to work in Canada will be considered. No phone calls or agencies please.

Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in all areas of the hiring process. If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please make your needs known in advance. Accommodation requests will be provided on an individual basis.

Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to employment equity and an inclusive barrier-free selection process and work environment. Postmedia Network Inc. encourages applications from women, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.

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