News Reporter

• Deliver high quality, thoroughly researched, accurate and well-written multimedia content packages on a daily basis to agreed deadlines
• Write in a way which engages our readers and drives digital audience
• Understand the key ways our audiences engage with our content - social, search, mobile, apps, video
• Provide live coverage of news events for live blogs and breaking news as and when required
• Create a maintain a community and audience around your stories
• Shoot video, audio and pictures
• Source third party content, including blogs, video, audio and pictures, where appropriate to add value to content packages
• Take responsibility for themes of content, such as geographic areas, campaigns or other areas of interest, as directed by the content desk
• Build strong contacts for story-gathering within local communities
• Spend time in communities - both geographic and interest-based to promote brands
• Be active on social media, in line with Trinity Mirror policies, to build audiences and communities and ensure that content links are regularly shared on social platforms
• Ensure content carries the correct tags, in accordance with agreed conventions
• Undertake company/editorial projects and any other duties from time to time as reasonably requested by management

• Deliver high quality, thoroughly researched, accurate and well-written multimedia content packages on a daily basis to agreed deadlines
• Write in a way which engages our readers and drives digital audience
• Understand the key ways our audiences engage with our content - social, search, mobile, apps, video
• Provide live coverage of news events for live blogs and breaking news as and when required
• Create a maintain a community and audience around your stories
• Shoot video, audio and pictures
• Source third party content, including blogs, video, audio and pictures, where appropriate to add value to content packages
• Take responsibility for themes of content, such as geographic areas, campaigns or other areas of interest, as directed by the content desk
• Build strong contacts for story-gathering within local communities
• Spend time in communities - both geographic and interest-based to promote brands
• Be active on social media, in line with Trinity Mirror policies, to build audiences and communities and ensure that content links are regularly shared on social platforms
• Ensure content carries the correct tags, in accordance with agreed conventions
• Undertake company/editorial projects and any other duties from time to time as reasonably requested by management

• Trinity Mirror or equivalent journalist qualification (or relevant time-served experience)
• Excellent writing skills and experience writing professionally
• Up-to-date legal knowledge
• Good understanding of how content is shared and promoted through social media
• Comfortable at getting out and about and making contacts
• Awareness and understanding of how people use the internet to find information
• Ability to shoot and edit video and audio
• Ability to work well under deadline pressure
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Flexible approach to shifts
• Full driving licence

In addition to competitive salaries, bonus structures (if applicable) and a contributory pension scheme, Trinity Mirror Group plc offer a whole host of voluntary flexible benefits. These include a car scheme, holiday purchase, childcare vouchers, cycle scheme, staff discounts, season tickets & parking loans and an employee assistance programme.

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