Anchor at News Central TV
News Central TV
Lagos, Nigeria
Permanent
Published 1 month ago · Expires 3 weeks from now
Job description
This position offers a great opportunity for career growth.
Key Responsibilities:
- Generating ideas for stories and features and following leads from news agencies, the police, the public, press conferences and other sources
- Pitching ideas to editors and commissioners
- Researching, verifying, and collating evidence and information to support a story using relevant information sources such as the internet, archives, databases, etc.
- Writing scripts for bulletins, headlines, and reports
- Selecting appropriate locations, pictures and sound and exercising editorial judgement on the best angle from which to approach a story
- Identifying necessary resources and deploying and managing technical crews for location shoots, including sound operators and camera crew
- Providing directorial input, advising crews on what to film or record
- Using portable digital video (dv) cameras and other equipment to record material
- Producing complete packages for broadcast
- Preparing and presenting material on air for both pre-recorded and live pieces
- Identifying potential interviewees, briefing them, preparing interview questions and conducting both live and recorded interviews
- Preparing timings for each news item and monitoring these during broadcast
- Deciding on the running order for bulletins and making any necessary changes during broadcast
- Collaborating with the editor to put together the completed item
- Developing and maintaining local contacts, assuming a public relations role
- Understanding and complying with media law and industry codes of conduct
- Research local community national and international current events
- Meet with the Executive News Editor, in collaboration with Executive producer, producer, reporters and other news anchors to be briefed on the day’s news
- Work with the Executive News Editor to choose stories to broadcast considering audience preferences
- Organize the news to present the most interesting pieces first
- Revise scripts and prepare to deliver them on-air
- Ensure late-breaking news is added to newscasts
- Engage in commentary
- Interview guests and other members involved stories
- Introduce news correspondents reporting on scene and ask them relevant questions
- Comply with the moral code of the journalistic profession
- Keep abreast of news developments by studying papers, attending events, etc.
- BSc degree in journalism, communications or relevant field
- Pro...