Copyeditor

About Company:

Position Summary:

Co-ordinate with reporters and photographers to generate all important stories, package and slot to ensure no important stories are missed out, make pages and give catchy captions, straps ensuring a high quality and engaging edition.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• 2 - 5 years experience in Print Media (newspaper editing). (on-site Goa).
• Edit articles, select photos and give story ideas, give headlines and caption and edit copies.
• Liaise with reporters for graphic matter and stories and with photographers for photos in order to ensure that no important stories are missed and readers get correct picture of an event.
• Make pages, give correct and catchy headlines, give smart taglines adages and provide informative captions and make attractive and informative graphics and edit and rewrite stories in order to produce error-free, informative and attractive pages.
• Make pages, draw dummies for the assigned edition, decide on stories and pictures to be taken in order to produce a visually pleasing page.
• Scan the agencies and make a list of relevant stories which are not being covered by reporters in order to maintain the paper’s edge over competitors and ensure that no story is missed.

Key Requirement:

• You are local or ready to relocate for long term.
• Evening Shift.

Soft Skills:

• Language skills.
• Well-read and proficient in written and spoken English.
• Good news sense.
• Tech savvy in order to keep up with the new software’s being introduced.

Education: