RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Monitoring trending business stories
- Sourcing ideas for exclusive stories
- Sourcing comments from experts, entrepreneurs
- Writing and publishing business stories that resonate with our audience (including news articles, market overviews, interviews, analysis and feature articles about business)
- Posting your articles to Facebook and Twitter
- Participating in all activities related to business content direction (including the newsletters, videos, promo and distribution of content).
REQUIREMENTS:
- Degree or Diploma in journalism/media studies or related field
- Considerable experience in journalism and writing business content
- Passion for writing business stories
- Strong knowledge of the business world, including economics, and industry trends.
- Strong Knowledge of legal and ethical issues related to business journalism, including libel, conflict of interest, and privacy laws.
- Strong analytical and research skills, with the ability to collect, interpret and present complex data in a simple and meaningful way.
- Impeccable communication and interviewing skills, both written and verbal
- Strong contacts in business world
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet tight deadlines.
- Strategic and analytical thinker
- Ability to go the extra mile
- Self-driven individual with a strong desire to constantly learn and adapt
- Good time management and work organisation skills
- Work under minimal supervision
- Ability to churn out articles in perfect English
- Ability to work remotely (good internet connection and a laptop, minimum Intel Core i3).
