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Journalist-BBC Monitoring, Nairobi Job
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
- As a journalist, you’ll play a pivotal role in meeting the needs of BBC Monitoring’s users by identifying news and key insights based on the monitoring of local media and vernacular sources – TV, radio, newspapers and social media – across Africa.
- You will produce engaging content in English and cover many news stories, including breaking news.
- You will work a shift pattern, feed into the global news agenda, acting as a point of reference on Sub-Saharan Africa.
- You’ll use a variety of digital tools and techniques to mine the media for story ideas, identify emerging trends and narratives and contribute to advance planning for coverage of key events.
Your Skills And Experience
- You must have excellent knowledge (spoken and written) of one of the following languages: French, Swahili, Kinyarwanda and/or Kirundi.
- Experience as a journalist and exceptional writing skills in idiomatic English.
- You’ll be able to record accurately, to report impartially, to provide context as necessary and to ensure all output is consistent with the BBC’s editorial guidelines.
- You’ll have a thorough understanding of Africa’s media environment, political, cultural, religious, and economic issues.
- You’ll be able to track breaking news and emerging trends on social media.
- You are willing and able to embrace new ways of working, continually developing yourself and others around you, and actively seeking feedback.
- You have good inter-personal communication skills and can work collaboratively with team members and with other parts of the BBC
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