Municipal Affairs & Planning Journalist

Description:

The position reports to the Publisher or the Editor, depending on the nature of the assignment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Your areas of responsibility for newsgathering for our two publications will include:

• Proposing, every week, story suggestions and ideas in collaboration with the Editor to establish the nature of reporting assignments each week.
• Organizing and devoting a portion of your week to researching, interviewing informants for and writing articles for the publications, on copy deadlines established by the Editor.
• Writing a minimum of 2 feature articles and two inside articles for NRU Toronto and NRU GTHA (700 to 950-word articles) each week, for a total of 4 articles per week that will meet two weekly deadlines for publication.
• Using multiple sources, documents, images, data reporting, and other journalistic tools to develop, report, and write feature and special articles, and to undertake investigative projects.
• Positively represent the Company in all interactions and interviews relating to the position.
• Identifying images to accompany articles, preparing cut lines, identifying image sources, and describing what an image shows and its relationship to a story.
• Compiling documentation to facilitate fact-checking of all articles authored.
• Preparing special articles from time to time on election coverage, writing in-depth features, year-in-review summaries, and other articles, as assigned.
• Other duties as assigned.