Address Job no: 503894
Work type: Ongoing Full Time
Location: Townsville
Categories: Journalism/Content Making, Presenter/Reporter
Build strong engagement with local audiences
Full-time, Permanent
Location: Townsville
$70K to $87K plus 15.4% Nominated Super
About the Role
ABC Regional Queensland is looking for a motivated reporter to make creative digital, audio and video stories for the local and national audience.
We’re a small, dynamic team who love the thrill of the chase and setting the day’s news agenda. You are creative, super organised, able to weave a good yarn and a social media whizz. You'll love coming to work and connecting with our audience in North Queensland.
Under routine direction of the Editor, and in collaboration with colleagues, you will:
Produce and present news bulletins, Q&A’s, interviews and packages across all platforms, including breaking stories.
Contribute to planning and commissioning processes to develop and distribute new content ideas.
Identify and develop local content that can be shared with other content teams in News and across the ABC on multiple platforms.
Check us out here - ABC North Queensland
About You
If you have some editorial experience and can present local content to social media, mobile and across multiple platforms, come and join the Townsville team. You will be able to demonstrate:
A creative approach to storytelling, and accomplished experience in live presentation and broadcast.
Accomplished editorial skills including tight writing, accuracy, and thorough research.
Demonstrated understanding of the issues that affect and interest the local audience.
Good teamwork, flexibility, and sound editorial judgement.
For further details on the role and requirements, please refer to the full position description: 50056128 REPORTER.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).
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/
For further information on this position please contact Paula Tapiolas, Editor, ABC North QLD on (07) 4722 3***
Please feel free to contact *************@abc.net.au or 02 8333 2*** where you can request recruitment and selection information in alternate formats, request adjustments, or have accessibility requirements met wherever possible.
About ABC News
ABC News is the most respected name in news and current affairs and the nation's leading independent news service on television, radio, digital and social media. Our flagship brands and services include Four Corners, 7.30, Australian Story, AM, PM, Foreign Correspondent, Insiders, Q&A, The Drum, ABC News 7PM, ABC News on digital and social media and ABC news channels on radio and television.
We respectfully request that Recruitment Agencies do not submit applications for this position.
Applications Close: 11:55 pm, Sunday 10 March
Advertised: 29 Feb 2024 9:00 AM E. Australia Standard Time
Applications close: 10 Mar 2024 11:55 PM E. Australia Standard Time
