Position Type: Full time, Permanent (Existing Vacancy)
Location: Remote within St. Postmedia is a Canadian news media company representing more than 110 brands across multiple print, online and mobile platforms. Award-winning journalists and cutting-edge product development teams bring engaging content to millions of people every week whenever and wherever they want it.
This exceptional content, reach and scope offers advertisers and marketers compelling solutions to effectively reach target audiences. Yourmain focus will be covering news storiesacross Newfoundland and Labrador, with a focus on political and health reporting.Our ideal candidate is skilled at writing features as well as web reporting on immediate issues. We're looking for someone who is proficient at storytelling and able to write articles that can condense information in a way that explains or analyzes what's happening for our online readers.
Driven by the demands of speed and online readership growth, the multimedia journalist must flexibly juggle assignments as well as generate ideas to attract and keep readers returning to TheTelegram.A strong understanding of newsletters, SEO and best practices for web is considered a bonus, as is familiarity with platforms like WordPress, but support and training will be provided.
Our candidate is a team player, willing to work with colleagues to do investigative pieces or larger projects,
and able to work independently, as this is a work-from-home role. The candidate must be able to cover events in person as needed within St. The ability to use digital tools to identify news needs and maximize ways to meet them is critical to the position, as is working closely with the deputy editor and assistant news editor.
The position is a unionized job, working with a remote newsroom, beginning as soon as possible.
Report andwrite stories for our website, as well as tailoring content to meet the varying needs of our platforms.
Skilled with using social media to find sources, storyideasand topics of interest to the community each day and respond to explain why these talking pieces are important to NL
Strong phone skills, asyou may reporting from a distance.
Knowledge andexperience filing access to information requests considered an asset.
Respond quickly to stories that are important to our readers, turning around pieces that will help grow readership online by providing context,analysisand explanations.
Initiating and developing ideas for enterprise stories and investigative projects.
Working with digital teams to create other multimedia elements.
Experience at a news organization in a deadline-oriented reporting/writing role.
Fluency in digital platforms, multimediajournalismand social media.
📌 Full-time Reporter, Remote (Montreal)
🏢 Postmedia
📍 Montreal
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