The Voice Reporters Full Time

In line with our expansion plan and market penetration strategy for 2018, The Voice, Zambia’s fastest growing Newspaper has vacancies for young and energetic reporters to join our team.

To succeed as a Reporter, you’ll need determination and the ability to research and write accurate stories to tight deadlines
As a newspaper Reporter, your duties will include:

• Interviewing people in a range of different circumstances
• Building contacts in many areas to maintain a flow of news, such as with the police and emergency services, local council, community groups, health
  trusts, press officers from a variety of organisations and the general public and as well as politicians.
• Seeking out and investigating stories via your contacts, press releases and other media
• Attending press conferences and a range of events, such as council meetings, magistrates’ court proceedings, football matches, talent contests, etc.
• Ability to react with speed to breaking news stories
• Working closely with the news team, photographers and editors
• Recording interviews and meetings using shorthand or digital recorder equipment
• Writing shorter,’ filler’ stories to entertain, and researching and writing longer feature articles, sometimes for subsidiary publications and supplements
• Creating and uploading news content for the newspaper on our website.

Required Skills

All potential candidates will need to show evidence of the following:

• Strong written and oral communication skills
• A keen interest in news, current affairs, business and people
• Accurate spelling, grammar and punctuation
• Good organisation skills and the ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines
• An ability to grasp complex issues quickly and explain the min simple, concise language
• Resilience, determination, flexibility, persistence, motivation and integrity.

Qualification

• A Diploma/Degree in Journalism/Mass communication is a prerequisite.

Those interested must send their CV together with a general article of your choice (Current affairs, Court
news, Entertainment, Health, Community, Features etc.) with a minimum of 1000 words and maximum of 1200
words to:-thevoicezm@gmail.com