Multimedia Journalist – Viva and Lifestyle
On-siteAuckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Job Summary
Create timely, engaging lifestyle content across Viva and Herald Lifestyle, writing compelling features, profiles, and advice-driven stories. Produce material for digital, social, newsletters, video, and print while developing social-first content to grow audience engagement. Pitch fresh story ideas, build industry relationships, and leverage audience insights, analytics, and SEO to maximize reach. Collaborate with editors, producers, and designers to bring stories to life, supporting events and special projects as required. This role requires at least two years' experience in digital journalism, outstanding writing skills, and strong social media instincts, with a focus on adapting storytelling across multiple platforms. Based in Auckland's central newsroom, you'll work with top journalists to shape content reaching Kiwis nationwide.
Required Qualifications
- At least two years' experience in digital journalism, publishing or content creation
- Outstanding writing skills and the ability to adapt your storytelling across different platforms and formats
- A deep interest in lifestyle media, and how to tell stories that help, inspire and entertain audiences
- Strong social media instincts and experience creating engaging digital and video content
- An audience-first mindset, with confidence using analytics, SEO and research to shape content decisions
- Excellent organisation skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment with multiple deadlines
- Experience with content management systems (CMS)
- A collaborative approach, plenty of curiosity, and a constant flow of fresh ideas
- Must be able to work in a fast-moving environment with multiple deadlines
- Must have experience creating engaging digital and video content
- Must have confidence using analytics, SEO and research to shape content decisions
- Must have excellent organisation skills
- Must have a collaborative approach
- Must have plenty of curiosity
- Must have a constant flow of fresh ideas
- Must have experience with content management systems (CMS)
Desired Qualifications
- A deep interest in lifestyle media, and how to tell stories that help, inspire and entertain audiences
- Strong social media instincts and experience creating engaging digital and video content
- An audience-first mindset, with confidence using analytics, SEO and research to shape content decisions
- Excellent organisation skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment with multiple deadlines
- A collaborative approach, plenty of curiosity, and a constant flow of fresh ideas
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