Senior Lifestyle Reporter at Pulse Nigeria

Pulse is Africa’s leading innovative media company, informing and engaging Africa’s young audience - and providing expansive media reach and creative marketing solutions to partners. We run news websites and social channels and marketing and production across Francophone and Anglophone West Africa and East Africa.

Want to know more about what it’s like to work at Pulse? You can check out our careers page at www.pulse.africa/careers - here you will see our vision and mission, what some of our team members have to say about why they chose to work at Pulse and some amazing projects we’ve worked on.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Lifestyle Reporter

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• Pulse is looking for a Reporter well-connected in the Fashion & Lifestyle industry who will be responsible for researching, monitoring, writing and reporting news stories.

Responsibilities

• Collect, verify, and analyze newsworthy information as it pertains to Lifestyle.
• Create and deliver Lifestyle stories in varying formats(article, video and/or social posts) with the audience’s perspective in mind
• Develop and publish weekly reviews, opinion pieces, and reports
• Attend press conferences, events, and file reports in a timely manner.
• Contact, interview and research sources
• Maintain notes and audio/video recordings
• Cooperate with reporters, video editors, social media managers, chief editor, producers etc
• Stay up-to-date with the latest current events by properly monitoring news, attending events and building contacts and sources for use in future stories
• Abide by journalism’s ethics and codes

Requirements
Skills that would make a candidate successful in this role:

• Excellent writing, communication and news story-telling skills.
• Experience with content marketing and various content formats such as article, social and video alongside a proven ability to drive readership.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to plan, organize and prioritize in a fast-paced environment.
• A lot of energy, passion and enthusiasm.

Application Closing Date
31st December, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@pulse.ng using the position as the subject of the email.