Correspondent

Job description

About The Guild

The Guild is one of the brands associated with Empor Marcom which is an emerging digital publishing company dedicated to serving the leaders who are shaping the future of today's economy. Our digital media platform, SME Futures is India’s largest SME Focused media website. It is a fair, objective, incisive and data-driven media outlet for the sector and the general reader. Our team of young journalists hit the road across the country, peep into the chambers of policymakers and industry bodies and speak with stakeholders from the common consumer to traders and producers in text and video formats to offer its readers a comprehensive reportage.

We are looking for a Correspondent with a background in news for our editorial team in Noida.

Job Description:

• Work independently, as well as part of a team, to establish project deliverables
• Thrive to interview and cover Business Leaders and Industry events.
• Collaborate & work with editorial team to identify, develop the content.
• Make timely and effective decisions to meet all stories & production deadlines
• Researching news stories
• Manage News section on news portal
• Pitching story ideas to supervisors
• Scheduling and conducting interviews to gain information or opinions about a story
• Providing news and story updates as more information becomes available
• Establishing a social media presence and using it to engage with the audience
• Maintaining a network of industry contacts
• Collaborate closely with internal clients and stakeholders to help facilitate the creation of multimedia content

Key Skills required:

• A passion for news and an understanding of editorial standard methodologies
• Scripting and interviewing skills
• Ability and willingness to work non-traditional hours and travel (including nights, weekends, and holidays)
• A clear understanding of journalism process and ethics. Candidate must possess excellent writing and proofing skills and is expected to create content for both web and social media platforms that is creative, concise, of excellent quality and free of typographical errors.
• Be a team player

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