Reporter - Southwest at Premium Times

Premium Times Services Limited, publishers of Premium Times, is a Nigerian media organisation based in Abuja with a vision to help strenghten Nigeria’s democracy, advance the socio-economic wellbeing and the rights of the people, promote and enrich their cultural practices, and advocate for best practices, good governance, transparency and human rights, in line with the values expected of a modern democratic state.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Reporter - Southwest

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full Time

Requirements

• Candidates should possess HND / B.Sc Degrees
• Have a proven work experience as a reporter for at least 3 - 5 years. Outstanding candidates with fewer years of experience may be considered.

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 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.

Application Closing Date
Friday, 31st January, 2025 (11.59am).

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their detailed Curriculum Vitae, Cover Letter of interest, and two (2) writing samples or links to published stories in a single PDF document  to: [email protected] using "Reporter - Southwest" as the subject of the mail.

Note: Only ideal and qualified candidates will be contacted.