The Times of India, a leading news media firm is having vacancies in its output desk, Digital News Desk – App & Website, job vacancy of News reporter in its entertainment section and in its production. The job location will be in Mumbai.
- Output Desk – ( 3 Openings )
Essential qualification:
- 1-5 years of relevant experience
- Excellent communications skills ( Written & Verbal )
Job Responsibilities:
- To create rundowns, manage bulletins and tickers , edit and package news in all formats and genres
- Checking stories for accuracy and spelling/grammatical errors
- Cutting bytes, making capsules and writing for the ticker as well as breaking news flashes
- Producing news packages, editing news packages and scripts for the show
- Digital News Desk – App & Website – ( 2 Openings )
Essential qualifications:
- 1-5 years of experience of writing for news website
- Should have Excellent communications skills ( Written & Verbal )
Job Responsibilities:
- Create content for the website & mobile app
- Keeping track of website stories being uploaded
- Planning the design & story layout on both the platforms
- Developing the overall layout and design for online/digital content, including text, images
- &/ or video
- Entertainment – Reporter/Correspondent – ( 2 openings )
Essential qualifications:
· 3 – 8 years of experience in handling entertainment beat
- Should have good contacts
- Should have excellent communication skills
Job Responsibilities:
- Writing, producing, reporting & presenting entertainment stories
- Be the first to get big exclusive interviews for the channel with newsmakers for big entertainment stories, especially breaking news
- Verifying the facts before putting them out on the channel
- Production – 3 openings
Essential qualifications:
- 1-6 years of experience as a producer in a reputed news channel
- Should be technically sound
- Should have good news sense
Job Responsibilities:
- Coordinating with the graphics team to ensure that the graphic images, symbols and colors are acceptable while adhering to the organization’s stylistic guidelines
- Get in touch with the audio team to ensure that the sound recording, sound editing, sound mixing is done as per the need of the need of the show
- Getting involved in Ingest of feeds, archiving and checking quality of editing
- Coordinating with the visuals team to get final programs through cutting and assembling footage, and adding other effects as required
- Coordinating with library team to get relevant footage from the archives
- To assist in completing the entire life-cycle of the show
Interested candidates can forward their CV supriya.semwal@timesgroup.com
