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Job Description : Mid-Day is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Senior Sub (News Desk) with 4 to 6 years of experience to join our team. The ideal candidate should have: * Should be willing to work long hours, including early mornings and late nights, including on weekends, with rotating shifts and weekly offs * Ideating, pitching, planning, reporting, writing, copy-editing and publishing online news copy – compliant with SEO best practices * Checking print content and revising headlines and keywords * Assisting news lead with making rotas as well as daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly news plans * Monitoring news and social media trends and reporting and writing timely, news copy * Scanning for breaking news and updating on homepage/section pages. Ensuring no important story is missed by the online team * • Coordinating with photographers/camerapersons/reporters for breaking stories/photos/ video * Maintaining a daily story count; meeting fortnightly, monthly, quarterly and annual targets * Handling homepage/section programming * Multimedia: Reporting and/or anchoring video stories, conceiving and hosting podcasts * Coordinating with the feature, video and social media (and other teams) teams, as required Job Specific Knowledge & Skills a) Functional: Should understand the digital media space. The candidate should possess excellent news judgement and writing, headlining and sub-editing skills. Must be aware of news trends b) Behavioural: Team player with excellent communication skills, multitasking skills, ability to handle pressures of work and deadline, and ability and willingness to take ownership of their deliverables Open Positions 1 Skills Required News Editing , journalism, Editorial, Sub Editing, publishing, news, Copy Editing, Mass Communication, News Reporting, Feature Writing, Newspaper Role * Should take ownership of work and individual as well as team deliverables * Should have worked for mainstream print and/or digital news publications in Mumbai * Should have excellent reporting, writing and sub-editing skills in English * Should have excellent news judgement and a very good knowledge of news and current affairs. Knowledge and understanding of regional and national politics and policy a must * Ability to report and write news copy compliant with SEO, social media and other best practices * Ability to create content within tight deadlines, yet meet accuracy and quality-control standards * Ability to do multimedia reporting, including anchoring video and hosting podcasts in English * Ability to collaborate with other teams on multiple stories simultaneously Interested Candidates can send their CV's to: Location Bandra East, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Designation Senior Sub Editor Interested candidates can also mail your cv to