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reporter will provide civic news to the underserved communities of Semans, Raymore, Bulyea, Earl Grey, Silton, Southey, Craven, Lumsden, Regina Beach, Buena Vista, and Bethune. The reporter will attend town and village council meetings and follow up on issues raised at these meetings or of importance to the communities. With the understanding that the LJI grant is to be used solely for civic matters and events of public importance to society, if this same journalist write other types of articles they will be paid separately as a contractor with records to ensure that the separate grant funding is being allocated properly.
Type of Writing
- Regular column or feature
- Headlines or captions
- Analysis
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Additional Skills
- Knowledge and use of computer software material
Fields
- Transportation or traffic
- Social services
- Provincial affairs
- News items
- Law/legal affairs
- Labour
- Finance or investment
- Environment
Specific Skills
- Write news stories for publication and broadcast
- Receive, analyze and verify copy for accuracy
- Collect information through interviews, investigation and observation
- Arrange for and conduct interviews as part of research, for publication or for broadcast
Work Setting
- Weekly newspaper
- Small circulation newspaper
- Public relations or information services
- News service or news agency
- Magazine