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Online Content Writer - Birmingham Mail

Role Responsibility You will take responsibility for our presence on social media, ensuring our brands are informative and interactive. As a Social Media Editor you will be responsible for maximising our social media use on websites, within content and by newsroom staff. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Generating story ideas which will work well on social media • Own use of social media in newsrooms, working with head of web to ensure full use around the clock • Work as part of a TM-wide network of multimedia editors (social media) • Production of stories in multiple ways for multiple platforms • Working to minute-by-minute digital deadlines and also offering up print opportunities • General digital platform production duties • Able to take direction from managers and deliver effective and accurate copy quickly for all platforms to deadline and agreed criteria • Delivery of video and pictures to relevant standard • Building and owning strong relationships within relevant digital communities • To come up with innovative and lively content ideas • 100% use of metadata including keywords and geo-tagging of content • To undertake any other duties as reasonably required from time to time • To maintain the highest personal standards of professionalism and integrity at all times within the framework of current legislation and Trinity Mirror’s editorial and company policies The Ideal Candidate PERSON SPECIFICATION We require a Social Media Editor who is able to demonstrate a proven ability to originate and deliver well-crafted and clean content in relevant styles and length for all publishing platforms within agreed deadlines. Essential Skills: • A Trinity Mirror or equivalent journalist qualification (or relevant time-served experience) • First class news gathering skills • First class writing skills • Experience or knowledge of the changing ways to tell news in a live environment • Good communication and forward planning skills • Excellent up to date legal knowledge • Creativity, flair and a positive attitude • Able to write to agreed deadlines and under pressure • Able to work as part of a team • Able to take pictures and shoot and edit video • Understanding of multimedia newsgathering • Able to publish directly to web • Good working knowledge of social media

Data Journalist - Manchester OR Cardiff Job Introduction The opportunity has arisen for a Data Journalist to join our team based in either Manchester or Cardiff. Role Responsibility PURPOSE OF THE ROLE Conceiving, developing, producing and curating innovative data-based content packages for multi-media channels and print KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Locating key sources of data that are useful to journalists and consumers Manipulating raw data with spreadsheets and other software to find stories or other useful content for titles across the Trinity Mirror group Communicating those findings in the form of regular data bulletins, flagging up story opportunities to editors and heads of content around the group Visualising the data in the form of compelling maps, graphs, charts and other interactive gadgets. Finding, conceiving and developing technological solutions to help present data packages in a compelling and original way Developing and implementing surveys and other interactive methods of generating original data The Ideal Candidate The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate: A strong news sense A high degree of creativity and imagination An ability to interrogate data quickly and intelligently, to find stories or other content opportunities for a regional tabloid audience First-rate communication skills and an ability to boil down complex material into simple, compelling content A high degree of computer literacy, with a proactive attitude to solving technological problems in terms of finding, 'scraping' and presenting data Awareness of, and ability to productively use, software for manipulating and visualising data (spreadsheets, heat maps, etc) The ability to follow instructions and produce work to deadline First-rate communication skills