Summary:
The Reporter is responsible for gathering, researching, and reporting news across multiple platforms, including print and web. The role demands strong journalistic skills, digital fluency, and ability to adapt content for various audience segments. The ideal candidate can excel in a fast-paced environment, is detail-oriented, and understands how to communicate effectively across traditional and emerging media.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Research and reports on assigned or self-developed news stories across Glimpses Media platforms.
Gathers and verifies information regarding stories through interviews, observations, and research.
Writes clear, accurate, and engaging content tailored to print, web, and radio formats, following established editorial standards.
Covers community events and produces photos of the events for uploading to websites, social media and Glimpses Media archives.
May be required to shoot and edit basic video and audio content to accompany stories on digital platforms.
Produces accompanying content for digital platforms, including headlines, photo captions, social media teasers, and newsletter blurbs.
Posts and updates stories in content management system (CMS) for publication’s websites.
May be required to travel as part of a media delegation, or for news coverage.
May be required to represent Glimpses Media through event attendance.
Stays informed on current events and trends in journalism, digital publishing, and audience engagement.
Supervisory Responsibilities: N/A
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in communication, or appropriate experience or a combination of both.
Skills and Requirements:
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations to convey in assigned news stories.
Ability to use common mathematical skills to compute rate, ratio, and percents and to produce graphic information.
High proficiency levels with Microsoft Word are a requirement for this position. May be required to use Excel.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
Must have a valid Guam Driver’s License and maintain its validity throughout employment.
Must have a valid passport and maintain its validity throughout employment.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand. The employee is occasionally required to walk. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
Additional responsibilities:
Prepare radio news for broadcast, until further notice.
Digital responsibilities as defined and subject to development and change:
Lead social media content planning and execution for MBJ and GBM
Schedule weekly to monthly content in advance via Buffer, with a consistent content mix, to include possible off-days where there are no news updates
Meet with Creative to define brand tone and visual consistency for digital storytelling
Develop visual storytelling assets (infographics, charts, short-form content) in collaboration with Creative for complex data or stories; this includes research, creation and management of creative briefs to guide artists and staying active on Wrike regularly for project management and communications
Track and report monthly social media performance on metric dashboard; include insights and recommendations
Monitor website content quality and formatting, including headlines, links, images, and SEO
Participate in internal or external social/digital training or workshops
Join discussion with sales when digital content strategy intersects with advertising or sponsored content, helping to maintain editorial balance
Federal law requires that we verify the identity and work eligibility of all new hires.
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