: Job Accountabilities

(Briefly explain 4 to 5 main accountabilities of your role.)

1. Editing

• Selecting reporter stories / agency copies / press releases / print published copies; rewriting/sanitising them in terms of content and making them ready for digital publishing after clearance from senior team members.
• This includes news selection and visuals (images, videos and infographics), integrating social media into the news presentation, as well as determining homepage hierarchy. Monitor wires.
• Review the sensitivity of the stories before publishing.
• Operating the Web Content Management System (CMS) and multimedia.
• Writing articles / monitoring message boards / updating online content around the clock.
• Help populate KT content on social media platforms.

2. Coordination

• Liaise with reporters / journalists to clarify fact and details about a story to ensure that they are correct and in compliance with the copyright laws, market sensitivities and will not tarnish the reputation of the publication.
• Liaise with contributors - journalists, copywriters, product managers, marketing executives, researchers, photographers, publishers or image libraries, etc. - to gather and publish relevant content.
• Create micro-sites/polls/surveys; seek and curate reactions and user comments.
• Create special pages/sections.

3. Reporting

• Creating and conceptualising web content.
• Covering major events, breaking local stories and updating web copies on national and international stories.

4. Special Assignments

• Micro-sites, Poll Survey, Reactions and user comments.
• Creating special online pages on features and updating specific pages / sections assigned.
• Other assignments as and when required by Line Manager

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