Sub Editor & Jr. Sub Editor (News Desk)

Mid-Day is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Sub Editor / Junior Sub (News Desk) with 1 to 7 years of experience to join our team.

The ideal candidate should have:

* Should be willing to work long hours, including early mornings and late nights, including on weekends, with rotating shifts and weekly offs

* Ideating, pitching, planning, reporting, writing, copy-editing and publishing online news copy – compliant with SEO best practices

* Checking print content and revising headlines and keywords

* Assisting news lead with making rotas as well as daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly news plans

* Monitoring news and social media trends and reporting and writing timely, news copy

* Scanning for breaking news and updating on homepage/section pages. Ensuring no important story is missed by the online team

* • Coordinating with photographers/camerapersons/reporters for breaking stories/photos/ video

* Maintaining a daily story count; meeting fortnightly, monthly, quarterly and annual targets

* Handling homepage/section programming

* Multimedia: Reporting and/or anchoring video stories, conceiving and hosting podcasts

* Coordinating with the feature, video and social media (and other teams) teams, as required

Job Specific Knowledge & Skills

a) Functional: Should understand the digital media space. The candidate should possess excellent news judgement and writing, headlining and sub-editing skills. Must be aware of news trends

b) Behavioural: Team player with excellent communication skills, multitasking skills, ability to handle pressures of work and deadline, and ability and willingness to take ownership of their deliverables

interested candidates can also mail their CV to ritu.bidlan@mid-day.com