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About Premium Times

Premium Times – an online news brand of both local and international repute – is a media company with headquarters in Abuja, offices in Lagos and Washington D.C., and representatives across Nigerian states.

The newspaper is seeking young reporters to strengthen its coverage of Nigeria’s South-West geopolitical zones.

Ideal candidates should have the ability:

• To collect, verify and analyse newsworthy information.
• To write and deliver audience-centered news stories that can enhance our audience’s rights to know and guide them to make informed decisions.
• To provide live reports from scenes of events and illustrate stories with multimedia elements – text, photo, audio, video, and graphics.
• To evaluate and investigate news leads/tips to generate great and impactful stories for publication.
• To stay up to date with events on their beats and demonstrate mastery of the subject they cover or report about.

Candidates must also:

• Be dynamic, self-driven, and hard-nosed.
• Be able to smell and unearth even the best-concealed news and information.
• Have a strong commitment to the ethics of the journalism profession.
• Possess good writing and interviewing skills with the ability to extract relevant information about technical and complex topics and turn it into clear, concise, and conversational content.
• Have a proven work experience as a reporter for at least 3-5 years. Outstanding candidates with fewer years of experience may be considered.
• Have an aversion to corruption.
• Have good interpersonal relations skills.
• Possess inquiring minds and logical reasoning.
• Be organized, able to meet deadlines and juggle various tasks while at the same time maintaining a high level of attention to detail and sustaining overall work quality.
• Have the eagerness to learn and adapt to new situations and environments.
• Be able to travel at short notice.

Candidates for the South-West position are expected to be based in Lagos State and should have a deep understanding of current political, economic, and social issues in their respective regions.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates should send a detailed curriculum vitae, cover letter of interest, and two writing samples or links to published stories in a single PDF file emailed to (kindly indicate ‘REPORTER – SOUTHWEST’ as the subject of the mail). Only ideal and qualified candidates will be contacted.