Reporter - Sale, Victoria

Ongoing Full Time
Location: Sale
Categories: Journalism/Content Making, Presenter/Reporter

• Be a part of Australia's independent national broadcaster
• Full Time, Permanent Role
• Location: Sale, Gippsland
• Build strong engagement with local audiences
• $78K to $87K p.a. plus 15.4% ABC Nominated Super Fund

About the RoleABC Gippsland is a great team to be part of it, and our news journalists have varied and exciting jobs. We cover Warragul, Traralgon, Inverloch, Bairnsdale and Orbost from our Sale radio studios and newsroom. Our reporters are vital in bringing the characters and stories of these communities to local and national audiences. The ways to tell these stories are ever-evolving; it could be a live cross into TV with overlay you filmed yourself using the latest mobile technology, an online story on Australia's most trusted news website, a carefully crafted radio package on AM, a short piece in a radio news bulletin you're presenting live or a long-form YouTube video.Under the direction of the Editor, the role involves:

• Finding great stories from Gippsland, and telling them to the ABC's local, state, national and international audiences on its broadcast, social media and online platforms.
• Presenting news bulletins, Q&A's, interviews and packages.
• Writing strong feature stories, with compelling visuals, that hook an engaged audience on our website.

About YouYou will have experience with breaking news and generating original stories in a daily news environment. You will be a team player who can also work independently. We'd love you to have some knowledge and connections to Gippsland, or the research skills and enthusiasm to make Gippsland your new home.The skills that you will bring include:

• Sourcing and breaking news, and generating original stories in a news environment
• Managing your time effectively to meet deadlines
• Communicating easily and working as part of a team in the Sale office

**** Current and valid Driver's Licence is essential with a willingness and flexibility to travel to remote locations.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 atFor further details on the role and requirements, please refer to the full position description: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 Jarrod Whittaker, Editor, ABC Gippsland on 03 5143 5511 or at whittaker.jarrod@abc.net.auWe 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.Advertised: 13 Jun 2024 8:00 AM AUS Eastern Standard Time
Applications close: 23 Jun 2024 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time