Reporter/ Senior Reporter, Culture
China, China
Full Time
Editorial
Mid Level
About the Team:
The Culture team’s main responsibility is to explain contemporary China through human interest stories.
Purpose of the Position:
- Produce viral content about today’s Chinese society for the international audience, and drive daily online traffic for the section;
- Help the team to be the authoritative and go-to source for human interest stories coming out of China;
- Produce stories that engage readers, with the aim to convert them into SCMP subscribers.
In this role, you will:
- Produce accurate, fair and objective articles that are of high journalistic standards;
- Go through news portals as well as social media platforms every day to look for interesting story ideas that can be turned into viral content;
- Meet daily editorial deadline(s);
- Respond to the team leader’s professional requests promptly and efficiently;
- Execute ideas assigned by the team leader.
Skills and Experience that will lead to success:
- At least three years experience in journalism, preferably in English language media
- Excellent news sense
- Proficiency in both Chinese and English, spoken and written;
- Social media savvy
- Good interpersonal skill
- Familiarity of Chinese culture, that is preferable (but not essential)
- Candidate with more experiences will be offered as Senior Reporter
Work location will be in China( preferably Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen)
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