Media Content Specialist

6 days ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Torstar Full time

About Us

Torstar Corporation is a forward-thinking media organization with a rich history in newspapers and a passion for leveraging the dynamic world of digital and mobile media. Our vision for success is driven by a deep customer-centric focus, continued journalistic excellence, advanced data-driven capabilities, and a culture that is selfless, focused, agile, collaborative, and results-driven.

Our Commitment to Diversity

We strive to be a leader in building and cultivating an employee community framed around fairness, support, and opportunity. We believe that what makes us different makes a difference, and as a team, the diversity of our backgrounds, interests, and experiences enriches our work and our workplaces. We welcome all and strive for an inclusive culture that allows individual growth and shared success.

Job Overview

The Toronto Star is currently recruiting for a Media Content Specialist classification in the Editorial Department. This role involves reporting and writing authoritatively on breaking news, providing perspective and analysis, and collaborating with colleagues throughout the newsroom to produce stories that are accurate, comprehensive, compelling, and relevant.

The successful candidate will be a champion of our priorities, keeping the customer at the heart of all creative work while thinking beyond traditional narratives to produce engaging daily content. They will be digitally savvy and ready to experiment with new forms of storytelling, incorporating feedback from customer analytics to ensure that content leads to engagement and subscriptions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Reporting and writing authoritatively on breaking news
  • Providing perspective and analysis
  • Collaborating with colleagues to produce engaging daily content
  • Thinking beyond traditional narratives
  • Incorporating feedback from customer analytics

Required Skills and Qualifications

  • Professional experience as a reporter, ideally with some demonstrated work covering breaking news and crime
  • Excellent news judgment, storytelling, and multimedia skills
  • Advanced writing skills and story-telling ability
  • A self-starter who is flexible and able to generate quality story ideas
  • Able to simultaneously manage multiple projects and tasks
  • Relentlessly high standards, detail-oriented, and deadline-driven
  • Interviewing and newsgathering skills and instincts
  • Diplomacy and well-developed interpersonal skills
  • Familiarity with access to information procedures and databases
  • Well-versed in CP style

Salary Range

$56,360 to $93,862 per year

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