What are the responsibilities and job description for the Reporter position at Advance Local : MLive.com?
Are you looking for a company that embraces innovative ideas and talented people? MLive.com is looking for a news reporter to join its West Michigan team. The position entails a mix of covering community issues and business development in West Michigan. The right candidate will be versatile, adaptable and a self-starter. MLive is a highly innovative, digital news organization where experimentation and flexibility are a must. We are leaders in digital news, yet we are grounded in the ethics of solid journalism.
The job requires someone comfortable with CMS tools, multimedia, social media, and engagement
Requirements for the role:
- Degree in Journalism or Communications or related field preferred
- Minimum of 1-2 years of journalism experience preferred
- Proven experience building, maintaining and engaging an active audience
- Ability to work independently under deadline pressure and prioritize tasks appropriately
- Demonstrated reporting, writing and organizational skills
- Solid understanding of news writing, journalistic ethics and story structure
- Experience with search engine optimization practices
- Experience with using social media to source and promote content a plus
- Demonstrated capability in capitalizing on high-value topics by engaging audiences in frequency and urgency
- Understanding of the methods and tools used to deliver content across a variety of platforms
- Understanding imperatives of multiple platforms - print, mobile, Internet, etc.
- Understanding of social media and digital interaction
- Ability to work independently and remotely
- Gather information and write journalistically sound news elements for use in all media platforms, existing and future, that is: balanced and factual; timely and topical; and, well -sourced and contextually correct
- Learn and employ all techniques for effective digital "beat-blogging" reporting across all platforms
- Post frequent and incrementally posting throughout the day
- Engage in story aggregation and topical link-posting
- Monitor and engage in reader comment streams on MLive story pages
- Elevate comments into new posts when appropriate
- Interact on social media platforms, with story shares, objective commentary, promoting your topic and news organization's content initiatives
- Effectively employ various means for monitoring audience interest and competitors' posting on your topic, including setting up Google alerts, Twitter and RSS feeds
- Maintain operational communication with editor and, when applicable, production center,
- Understand and use hardware, software and cloud-based equipment and systems for direct-to-web production and engagement, including but not limited to:
- a posting photographs and short videos to the web and any internal production systems
- remote web reporting, using laptops and smart phones
- Understand and use our news organization's audience traffic tracking systems and analytical reports
- Meet production deadlines
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