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Job description / Role
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Programme Editor is responsible for producing original and market-leading programmes for TRT Arabi and other content including packages, segments, documentaries and specials; leading teams of producers and liaising with news desk and operations staff, managing graphics production, editing scripts and providing editorial direction for the programme team. The role may require shift work including evenings and weekends.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Reporting to the Executive Producer of Programmes, produce accurate, balanced, well produced, impartial, informative, up-to-date & viewer focused programmes or documentaries.
• Ensure content and coverage is consistent with TRT Arabi’s editorial policies and values; and complies with applicable laws and regulations.
• Stay up to date with news and current affairs, utilizing all available sources (news wires, other agencies, newspapers, social media, etc.)
• Participate in or lead editorial meetings and propose ideas for programme content.
• Manage and discuss ideas with the programme team and producers; decide on programme direction, content production and guest requirements.
• Approve guests and oversee Interview Producers, ensuring guests are booked who fit programme requirements; book guests when required.
• Review packages and reports and offer feedback to producers/correspondents.
• Liase with programme director to ensure operations staff can deliver programme requirements.
• Work with Executive Producer to agree standards of best practice and ensure the production team adheres to these.
• Contribute to overall strategy of programmes department, offering feedback and constructive criticism to ensure optimal performance and delivery of strategic goals.
Requirements
KEY SKILLS
• Minimum of 7 years relevant experience in journalism.
• Fluent in both written and spoken Arabic
• An excellent journalist with strong editorial judgment.
• Experience in television news or current affairs, including at a national or international broadcaster.
• Experience of leading a team and managing producers to meet editorial goals and programme deadlines.
• Knowledge of newsroom production systems and desktop editing.
• Excellence in writing and editing programme scripts.
• Experience of or appreciation of the benefits and difficulties of cross-platform working.
• Evidence of a broad range of journalistic interests including social affairs, international politics, public policy, world business and economic affairs, Sciences and the Arts.
About the Company
At TRT Arabi we're building a global community focused around change. We're looking beyond the headlines to drive meaningful conversations that empower. We want to connect people across the globe to issues that matter. We explore the reality behind the hashtags and the people behind the statistics. We will seek to unpack the issues behind each story.
By placing the human at the heart of each story we hope to promote a global conscience that provokes moral reactions - revealing a deeper understanding of the diversity of the lives around us.