Job Title: Trainee Reporter
Department: Basildon Editorial
Responsible to: News Editor/Chief Reporter


Job requirements :

  • To accept training and guidance from news editors, chief reporters and other senior journalists.
  • To write news copy in accordance with Echo Newspapers practice and style.
  • To ensure that highest standards are maintained at all times, both inside and outside the office.
  • To produce fast, accurate copy from any job assigned to.
  • To take photographs if required.
  • To aid Newsquest’s other media businesses, e.g. web sites, broadcasting.

.Key areas in addition to those outlined in the job description:

  • Reporters should expect to work outside normal office hours, at short notice and be flexible with working patterns.  This includes evenings, weekends and Bank Holidays.
  • To broaden knowledge of the Echo and newspapers in general.

 

This job description summarises the main aspect of the job, but it does not cover all the duties that the jobholder may be required to perform. Therefore, the job description is a minimum standard. It is not a statement of all that the job does or may entail. It is not intended to restrict the scope of the job but clearly to define its starting point.

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