Sub Editor / Senior sub (News Desk)

Mid-Day is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Sub Editor / Senior Sub (News Desk) with 1 to 5 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

* Should take ownership of work and individual as well as team deliverables

* Should have worked for mainstream print and/or digital news publications in Mumbai

* Should have excellent reporting, writing and sub-editing skills in English

* Should have excellent news judgement and a very good knowledge of news and current affairs. Knowledge and understanding of regional and national politics and policy a must

* Ability to report and write news copy compliant with SEO, social media and other best practices

* Ability to create content within tight deadlines, yet meet accuracy and quality-control standards

* Ability to do multimedia reporting, including anchoring video and hosting podcasts in English

* Ability to collaborate with other teams on multiple stories simultaneously

Interested Candidates can send their CV's to: reshma.krishnan@mid-day.com