Senior Reporter in Adelaide

You are responsible for sourcing, writing, and producing compelling journalism at The Advertiser tailored for a South Australian audience. Your task involves finding exclusive angles on the most significant stories from around the state and proactively chasing down leads to secure unique perspectives that will be followed by others. Covering both national and global breaking news is an essential aspect of your role. Utilise social media to stay updated on trending topics and generate fresh story ideas. Your role includes pitching and delivering distinctive content that stimulates discussions, encourages engagement, and promotes reader engagement and audience growth. Employ analytics to make informed decisions about future story selections, ensuring new insights on popular subjects. You will be expected to work some weekend shifts and occasionally outside of regular hours to provide coverage for special events.

You are a successful news reporter, boasting a minimum of five years of experience in a bustling digital newsroom. Your passion lies in uncovering breaking stories and securing exclusive perspectives on the prevalent topics dominating the national agenda. You are highly motivated, brimming with innovative ideas, and benefit from a robust network of contacts that facilitate the breaking of major stories. Your strong writing skills are complemented by a keen understanding of how to leverage headlines and images to captivate readers, with a strong desire for widespread readership being essential. Possessing sound legal knowledge, you are adept at working independently and sourcing your own stories. You exhibit an interest in actively engaging with and taking ownership of the finance topics that appeal to news.com.au readers. You have a comprehensive understanding of SEO principles and analytics, allowing you to optimize your content for maximum reach and impact.

News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities. 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

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.