Joining: Immediate
Location: New Delhi
Key Responsibilities:
- Editing original stories, following up on deadlines with freelancers, and coordinating on multimedia deliverables.
- Pitching own stories, including feature projects, and working closely with the editorial lead to to strategise editorial goals and story ideas for each quarter, and setting tasks to pursue them.
- Work closely with the social media manager to create original content for social media. Develop scripts, write/review captions, and coordinate with story writers.
- Coordinating with Asian Dispatch's members on stories to republish.
What We Are Looking For:
- Completed an undergraduate degree program, preferably in Mass Comm/Journalism
- 4-5 years of experience in a newsroom
- Strong understanding of news and current affairs, with a keen interest in Asian political, economic, and social issues.
- Understanding of revenue streams and partnerships
- Fluency in English is mandatory
- Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills are required
- Comfortable to work in a fast-paced environment and willing to collaborate with other teams
About Asian Dispatch
Asian Dispatch, a pan-Asian newsroom and network. The newsroom works on collaborating cross border stories that represent pan-Asian, long form, public interest journalism. The network on the other hand is our effort to pool knowledge and resources to support our members to become more sustainable as news organisations to support the important work they do.
Asian Dispatch is the flagship initiative of DataLEADS, a global digital media and tech company.
You can read more about us at www.asiandispatch.net.
