Multimedia Journalist – Viva and Lifestyle

The Opportunity

Love fashion, food, design, travel and the stories behind them? Join Viva, the NZ Herald’s award-winning lifestyle brand, and help create content that inspires New Zealanders.

From smart written features and social-first storytelling to newsletters, events and digital experiences, you'll create engaging content that connects with audiences wherever they are. Whether it's spotting the next big trend, uncovering a compelling personality, or producing an impactful Instagram Reel, you'll know how to turn great ideas into content people want to read, watch and share.

What You'll Be Doing

• Creating timely, engaging lifestyle content across Viva and Herald Lifestyle.
• Writing compelling features, profiles and advice-driven stories that inform, inspire and entertain.
• Producing content across multiple platforms including digital, social, newsletters, video and print.
• Developing social-first content and helping grow Viva’s audience and engagement.
• Pitching fresh, original story ideas that resonate with both loyal readers and new audiences.
• Building strong industry relationships and growing your network of contacts.
• Using audience insights, analytics and SEO best practice to maximise reach and impact.
• Collaborating with editors, producers, designers and content teams to bring stories to life.
• Supporting Viva events and special projects when required.

About You

• 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.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

You'll thrive here if you're energetic, creative and excited by new ways of telling stories. At NZME, you'll have the opportunity to work with some of the best journalists in the country, develop your craft across multiple platforms, and help shape content that reaches Kiwis nationwide.

Based in our central Auckland headquarters, you'll enjoy a modern newsroom environment, development opportunities, discounted products and services, and a culture where bold ideas, individuality and growth are encouraged.

Ready to inspire while learning and growing in your journalism career? We'd love to hear from you.

All applicants will be asked about their current working rights in New Zealand. (Eg. Citizen, resident, visa, no visa etc)

New Zealand Media and Entertainment is NZ's premium integrated media group. We keep Kiwis in the know about what matters most to them, and dig into what’s going on in the world and why, as well as shining a light on the latest and greatest in news and entertainment. Combining radio, digital, and print we reach more than over 3.6 million* Kiwis every week.

We are home to more than 50 of Aotearoa’s award-winning media brands - each with its own voice, and each powered by the country’s top media personalities, journalists, broadcasters, designers, writers, commercial thinkers, operations teams, marketers, digital and tech specialists and many more. You can achieve anything you set your mind to here – the possibilities are endless!

Come and join the future of NZME. Give it your all and enjoy the ride because this could lead anywhere…