Position description
Working as part of a newsroom team, you will be responsible for delivering accurate, creative, and engaging output to our audience on TV, radio, and digital platforms. You will collaborate and contribute with colleagues on all output across the department and take responsibility for stories and output assigned to you.
Responsibilities
1. You will originate, research, write, produce, and present material using text, stills, audio, and video as required.
2. You will be expected to cover stories and events, accurately and impartially, and put them into an appropriate context to meet the needs of the audience.
3. Write cues and scripts, use video, audio, stills, and graphics to produce TV news, articles, features, engaging posts, and interactive material for digital platforms.
4. Produce content for TV that may include news stories, live coverage, sequences, interviews, packages, discussions, background pieces, analysis, and features.
5. You will need to be able to move a story forward by amending and updating material as required.
6. Research, report, write, translate, and adapt existing stories or program material from English into Dari or Farsi.
7. Output bulletins, if required, and construct running orders and sequences.
8. From time to time, you might also be required to report in text, stills, audio, or video from the field for all Iran International Television platforms.
9. Foreign travel may be necessary.
10. You may be required to anchor or present TV content or film and edit material.
Requirements
* Undertake any other reasonable duties as required.
* Recent and relevant broadcast news or multimedia experience.
* A wide and up-to-date knowledge of Iranian, Afghan, and international affairs.
* In-depth understanding of Iranian and Afghan history, politics, social issues, sport, and culture, as well as the changing needs of the audience.
* Have Farsi/Dari as your first (or equivalent) language, fluency in English, and the ability to write, translate, and adapt material accurately and to tight deadlines.
* The ability to produce original material and, preferably, adapt stories for multimedia output.
* The ability to report from the field as required.
* Suitable voice and presentation skills (training can be provided, but some experience is preferred).
* The ability to exercise editorial judgment and understand the law as it relates to journalism.
* The ability to work quickly and accurately under pressure, either alone or in a team.
* Excellent contacts within Iran/Afghan and the Iranian/Afghanistan diaspora across politics, culture, social issues, business, and sport.
* Knowledge of and commitment to Volant Media's editorial policy and values.
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