Digital Sport Reporter

Join TVNZ as a Digital Sport Reporter and help deliver engaging, high-quality sports journalism to audiences across Aotearoa. You'll cover everything from major sporting events to breaking news, creating content that informs, entertains, and sparks conversation around sport.

The opportunity - Te tūranga

As Digital Sport Reporter reporting to Executive Producer, Digital news, you will be responsible for producing high quality and engaging sport news content for 1News.co.nz in line with the News and Current Affairs Digital Strategy and objectives. In this role, you will work collaboratively across the newsroom to achieve editorial and content excellence and actively championing TVNZ's purpose and Rautaki Māori (Māori Strategy).

Your passion will be producing high quality and engaging sport news content that is balanced, error-free and meets the needs of 1News.co.nz and other platform audiences

What we're looking for - Tā mātou e kimi nei

To be successful, in this role we are looking for the following

• Proficiency in text/video content creation and basic video editing.
• Develop proficiency in our digital platforms, Saga and the CMS.
• Strong awareness of New Zealand and international Sport News.
• Strong understanding of the digital landscape.
• Technologically literate, able to grasp new technologies quickly.
• Knows social media and understands how to use it to gather and disseminate news.
• Good news judgement and willing to learn new skills/work across platforms.
• Manage time and resources efficiently and is able to work to deadlines.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Creative and lateral thinker.
• A relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent experience advantageous.
• Experience as a writer.
• Experience in digital and television news preferable.
• Ideally experience with video editing, filming, and on-camera reporting.
• Record of consistency under pressure.
• Ability to deal with rapidly changing priorities. Tono mai |Apply Now - we will be regularly reviewing applications. If you would like to find out more about this amazing opportunity, please feel free to call our Head of Talent Acquisitions, Philly Irvine, mobile 021 564 691, she loves to chat about TVNZ careers