Journalist Job at Enoch Stone consulting

Enoch Stone Consulting, a consulting, training, recruitment and outsourcing company is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Journalist

Job Location: Kano

Job Description

• We are on the lookout for a passionate Journalist to join our newsroom department. In addition to being a natural storyteller, the successful applicant must be able to demonstrate an ability to write investigative articles, feature stories, and analytical pieces.
• The fearless candidates for this job should possess a talent and enthusiasm for digging out the real stories and uncovering the truth. To excel in this role, you should be friendly, self-motivated, and have exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to the ethical code of the profession.
• Keep records of all notes, interviews, and audio files.
• Assess leads and pitch captivating story ideas to editors.
• Ensure that you meet all regular and recurring deadlines.
• Review and edit work for editorial approval.
• Use all your findings to prepare clean, concise and factual articles.
• Create trustworthy relationships with contacts and sources for use in future research.
• Keep up-to-date on the latest news developments by attending events, studying different papers, opinion pieces, and social media.
• Collect, verify and decipher data.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communications, English or relevant field.
• Minimum of 2 years’ working experience as a journalist or reporter.
• Capable of maintaining an ethical and objective standard in reporting.
• Ability to meet deadlines and accurately fact-check information.
• Excellent observation and judgment skills.
• Superb communication and networking skills, along with an aptitude to effectively extract information.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: estonecoy@yahoo.com with "Job title" as subject of the email.