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You must be available at a day's notice and not have a full-time job.
Key performance areas:
- Select and process pictures from news agencies
- Edit agency or original M&G articles and other content for style and sense
- Craft headlines, blurbs and captions
- Publish articles and pictures using the M&G Online content management system
- Write original copy for the M&G Online on occasion
- Upload and publish articles and pictures from the M&G newspaper using the M&G Online content management system
- Be able to work when contacted at short notice
Qualifications and experience required:
- Appropriate post-matric qualification
- At least two years' experience as a sub-editor
- Online sub-editing experience would be an advantage
- An excellent knowledge of media law and ethics
- First-class English language skills
- A firm grasp of current affairs, both local and international
- Net-savvy
Characteristics and competencies
- Excellent attention to detail
- Self-motivated and passionate
- Ability to quickly assimilate and apply the M&G's style
- Ability to work quickly and accurately under pressure
- Strong analytical ability
Applications should be addressed to M&G Online news editor Adrian Ephraim.
Email address: [email protected]
Closing date: 25 January 2013
Only shortlisted applicants who meet the criteria will be contacted. If you have not received a response within 14 days after closing of the advert, please accept that your application was not successful.
