Graduate Reporter – Africa Region
£30,000 Base Salary + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Hybrid Working
Fantastic opportunity for super talented graduate who is keen to embark on a career as a reporter.
Our client is a global information and events business and proudly owns many globally renowned, market leading brands.
Role: Graduate Reporter – Africa Region
Responsible for: News and analysis on the European infrastructure M&A deals in the infrastructure investment market exclusively for the Africa region.
This is an opportunity to become a leading business reporter in an important and rapidly evolving sector – covering the investment flows and market players behind essential infrastructure as the world responds to climate change and moves toward a more sustainable future.
Key responsibility:
* Writing business news articles with rolling deadlines through the day
* Researching the infrastructure investment market;
* Building a network of high-level market contacts through daily telephone calls (including investors, developers, bankers, lawyers and regulators).
* In addition to daily news reporting responsibilities, the reporter will produce regular features and analysis content.
Skills:
* Ability to write numerous news articles daily under deadline pressure
* Ready to learn about complex financial and energy/infrastructure topics
* Willing to make cold outreach calls, with a good telephone speaking manner and interviewing skills;
* Appreciates precision and high-quality work; understands journalistic values
* Fluent written English and additional languages a plus.
Profile of Candidate Required:
* Degree educated – min 2:1 from a leading university
* Outstanding written skills
* Ideally some knowledge or experience having lived in Africa
* Excellent communication skills – in person and on the phone
* Ideally a strong interest in the business of energy, transport, infrastructure
* Ideally some relevant work experience – research based or editorial / journalistic
Lipton Media is a specialist media recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in all forms of b2b media sales including conferences, exhibitions, awards, summits, publishing, digital, outdoor, TV, radio and business intelligence.
Our clients range from small start-up companies to FTSE 100 and 250 businesses. We work with people at every stage of their career from undergraduates looking for their first entry point into sales to senior managers and directors looking for their next challenge
