Reporter Mackay

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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia News Corp Australia Full time

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What's the role?

The award-winning Daily Mercury is looking for a confident and experienced journalist to join the team who can help readers understand the complex issues that matter.

What's the role?

The award-winning Daily Mercury is looking for a confident and experienced journalist to join the team who can help readers understand the complex issues that matter.

The role requires a writer with demonstrated ability who isn't afraid to ask tough questions and tackle some of the region's most important issues like mining, industry and politics.

The best candidate will be skilled in news gathering, able to build rapport with key contacts, have a solid grasp of social media and the ability to pitch and deliver engaging, high-quality content.

The masthead has recently relaunched a successful print product so while the focus is on digital-first storytelling and online engagement the ability to put together in-depth packages for a print audience is also required.

What's the role?

  • Source and create compelling stories that resonate with an audience
  • Deliver relevant content that both engages our existing subscribers and attracts new readers
  • Work under deadline pressure in a fast-paced environment to cover breaking stories without compromising on quality or accuracy
  • Focus on online engagement and drive subscription growth
  • Demonstrate initiative to seek out stories that are not already breaking and identify unique angles that drive conversation and move the issue forward
  • Digest digital data and use it in planning content
  • Turn what can sometimes be dry topics into engaging reads

Who are you?
  • A senior journalist with a minimum 2-3 years experience in a newsroom
  • Thrives on the challenge of meeting business outcomes and reader expectations and actively looks to exceed them
  • Ability to cut through political speak and break down complex mining issues.
  • Strong news judgment and interview skills
  • Understands and has experience in digital storytelling as well as print
  • Willing to embrace change and demonstrate agility in a fast-paced sector
  • Self-starter who can maintain high levels of personal organisation and time management
  • Understands social media, SEO, digital data
  • Harding working, detail-oriented and able to stay calm under pressure
  • Able to build and maintain a solid network of valuable contacts

News Benefits

News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities. Thanking them for the great things they do daily, for the greater good of Australia. Our benefits include:
  • Exclusively ours - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
  • Health & wellbeing - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)
  • Time off - News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.
  • Helping you grow - Development opportunities (including diversity and inclusion - focused education series) and recognition
  • Financial wellbeing - Support on making the most of your money
  • Perks & discounts - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services
  • Giving back - Make a difference to our communities.
  • Workplace Inclusion and facilities – Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents' rooms

Who are we?

The award-winning Daily Mercury is an agenda-setting newsroom in Queensland and part of Australia's most influential media organisation. Each month more than 17 million Australians choose to consume news and information from News Corp's digital and print products – more than any other media group in Australia.

What's next?

Apply now or for more information on careers at News Corp Australia visit www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion We know that diversity strengthens our teams and newsrooms as we seek to tell stories that represent the diverse communities of Australia that we serve. Our people make us unique and we all have a story. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, races, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, abilities and gender identities to apply. Inclusion is important to us and we want everyone at News to bring their whole-selves to work. If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, or would like to outline which pronouns you prefer, please feel free to let us know.

If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please feel free to let us know. For more information regarding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at NewsCorp Australia please visit www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers under the DEI section.

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State & Community MastheadsSeniority level
  • Seniority levelMid-Senior level
Employment type
  • Employment typeFull-time
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  • Job functionMarketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing
  • IndustriesMedia Production

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