Address- Be part of a high-quality editorial team
- Full-time, contract vacancy until June 2023
- Location: Sunshine Coast, QLD
The ABC, Australia’s most trusted news brand, is looking for an experienced journalist to break news and set the agenda in one of the best locations in Queensland.
You will have a passion for high-quality, accurate and credible journalism and a desire to be part of a collaborative team committed to editorial excellence.
Our reporters are multi-platform journalists producing content for TV, radio, online and social media but don’t be put off if you haven’t got skills in all these fields. If you know how to break news, we will teach you how to produce it for all platforms.
To jump into this role, you will be able to demonstrate the following:
- Advanced journalistic, editorial and research skills to source and break original local stories that resonate with target audiences.
- Substantial understanding of issues that affect the local audience.
- Experience in guiding and developing content makers to create distinctive and compelling, multi-platform content.
About the Role
Our team at ABC Sunshine Coast is seeking a Reporter for a 10 month fixed term contract to lead editorial planning and production across multiple platforms, and break original and agenda setting local stories for local and national audiences. Working alongside a skilled team, you will:
- Break news stories first that engage, inform and entertain.
- Substantially research and scrutinise issues of public interest and undertake very complex planning and production.
- Lead the planning, development and delivery of local and current affairs content in collaboration with other ABC content teams for multiple platforms.
- Contribute to the implementation of the Local Emergency Coverage plan and communicate with relevant stakeholders as required.
The role is based at the ABC office in Maroochydore, in the heart of the Sunshine Coast, 90 minutes north of Brisbane.
The ABC strives for diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and to promote a culture of opportunity. Through its services the ABC seeks to represent, connect and engage with all of the Australian community. In line with our focus on diversity, applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians, people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability and LGBTIQA+ individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a gender-balanced workforce.
For more information about working at the ABC, please feel free to explore our careers page at https://www.abc.net.au/careers/
About ABC Regional & Local
The ABC’s Regional & Local team is all about Australian communities and their conversations. Our teams create unique and distinctive content that connects communities and shapes lives in metropolitan, regional and remote Australia. From our capital city and regional bureaux, through to screen, live events and sport, Regional & Local is about real people, real places and real life.
For further details on the role and requirements, please refer to the full position description: 30003087 REPORTER NEWS backfill.pdf
We would love to see your work. Please submit material with your application online (include examples, links to websites or attach audio/video files up to 5MB).
For further information on this position please contact Sue McVay, Regional Editor, QLD at *********@abc.net.au.
We are unable to accept email applications, please ensure that you submit your application via the online portal.
We respectfully request that Recruitment Agencies do not submit applications for this position.
The ABC has a vaccination policy that requires employees to meet vaccination requirements for those working in some high-risk environments or circumstances. Some roles will require adherence to this policy as an inherent requirement of performing the role.
Applications Close: 11:55 pm, Wednesday 21 September 22.
