Work at CBC/Radio-Canada

Your role

• Produce journalistic content for a variety of platforms including digital, social media, radio and video.
• Take quality photographs and video in a variety of situations, as needed.
• Gather high-quality audio.
• Edit material for use on all platforms.
• Post content to website and social media platforms.
• Cover events using social media tools.
• Monitor developing news through a variety of sources.
• Develop and maintain contacts with sources to ensure current knowledge of issues and events.
• Arrange for, and conduct interviews.
• Contribute story ideas and creative treatments.
• On occasion, vet or edit stories and scripts written by colleagues.
  
  

We are looking for a candidate with the following:

• A university degree or equivalent with a minimum of three years of recent experience writing news for a major professional online publication or broadcaster.
• Experience in determining potential legal issues and journalistic policy violations and ability to act on them.
• Proven ability to write with appropriate flow, clarity and brevity, and to write/edit engaging headlines, photo captions and teaser summaries.
• Track record of generating original and innovative stories with creative treatments, including visual storytelling.
• Experience handling breaking news and quick turnarounds.
• A team player who is willing to work cooperatively with producers and colleagues in story development and vetting.
• Working knowledge of the diverse communities in and around Waterloo region.
• Strong understanding and familiarity with social media and the ways it can be creatively used for journalism.
• Performance skills including strong presentation style and a good voice for broadcast.
• An aptitude for working with a variety of digital tools.
• Flexibility with hours of work (including evenings and weekends) and willingness to learn and take on new tasks across all CBC's platforms.
• Solid news judgement and ability to work effectively under newsroom deadline pressure.
• Proven ability to work independently on stories.
• Excellent interpersonal skills. We consider our newsroom a community. We like to laugh and we hope you do, too.
• A valid driver’s licence of G or better level.
• Please include additional documentation or a link to your online demo or website, blog or video in your cover letter.

Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.

CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to being a leader in reflecting our country’s diversity. That’s because we can only create and tell the stories that connect Canadians, by having a workforce that mirrors the ever-changing makeup of our country. That’s why we, as an employer, value equal opportunity and nurture an inclusive workplace where our individual differences are not only recognized and valued, but also extend to and pervade all the services we provide as Canada’s public broadcaster. For more information, visit the Diversity and Inclusion section of our website. If you have accommodation needs at this stage of the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible by sending an e-mail to recruitment@cbc.ca.

You are invited to consult and familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct, which can be found on our corporate website. All employees must adhere to the Code as a condition of employment. We also invite you to take a look at our policy on conflicts of interest. In the event that you become an employee, it will be important to inform us, as quickly as possible, of any situation that, because of your hiring, constitutes or could appear to constitute a conflict of interest.