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At CBC/Radio-Canada, we create content that informs, entertains and connects Canadians on multiple platforms. Our successes and accomplishments are driven by embodying and upholding values, which include creativity, integrity, inclusiveness and relevance. 
 
Do you think you have the ability and drive to keep up with this exciting, ever-changing industry? Whether it be in front of the camera, on air, online or behind the scenes, you would be joining a team that thrives on making connections and telling stories that are important to Canadians.

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This role requires full time on site presence. 

Your role

CBC News is looking for a Journalist to be assigned to the Atlantic Investigative Unit. The job can be based in any of the four Atlantic provinces. As an applicant, you must have excellent interpersonal skills and enjoy working in a team environment. You have a demonstrated record of impactful and creative enterprise and/or investigative journalism. You are genuinely curious, care deeply about truth, and are able to hold the powerful to account on issues of injustice and transparency. You are a skilled interviewer, an adept researcher and a captivating storyteller. You have the skills to produce stories for rollout in news and current affairs, on all platforms, and on local, regional and national programming. You have the curiosity and competence to find and tell investigative stories in any part of the Atlantic region, no matter where you are based. You have a deep understanding of and appreciation for CBC’s Journalistic Standards and Practices and media law.

Tasks:

1. Keep up with current events by consulting various sources.

2. Establish and maintain links with different sources.

3. Propose and receive topics for news stories.

4. Research, gather, evaluate and verify all elements of the topics addressed.

5. Plan reports around the story to be told. Conduct interviews and assess their relevance. Direct TV shoots. Direct recordings on the radio or for new media. Take photographs or direct photo shoots for new media.

6. Listen to audio and view visuals. Select the appropriate clips. Provide information for the graphic illustration of the topics addressed.

7. Decide on story angles. Draft various documents (reports, titles, briefs, texts with or without clips, presentation documents, ticker headlines) in a style that suits the medium and update them to reflect current events. Adapt the content of information programs. Depending on the position, translate or adapt copy or interviews into the broadcast language.

8. Script and narrate reports.

9. Submit texts for approval.

10. Oversee the editing process. Retrieve and assemble audio and visual clips for television. Perform rough editing for radio. Prepare audio and visual elements for new media.

11. Prepare live broadcasts. Propose questions and clips and suggest their order.

12. Deliver the news or reports on air.

13. Publish texts, reports as well as audio and visual elements on new media.

14. Inform newsroom coordinators of any event requiring immediate broadcasting or special treatment.

15. On request, review the texts of other journalists and contribute to their reports.

16. Provide host journalists with written information (notes, dispatch) during special programs.

17. Ensure the availability of the resources (studio, booth, technician) required to produce your reports.

18. Drive a news vehicle.

19. For new media, select and update relevant hyperlinks. File and archive website content. Help organize and

participate in interactive activities (moderating talkbacks, chats, forums). Follow up on e-mails from readers.

20. Carry out all other related tasks as needed.

More specific duties are as follows:

• Generate story ideas for news items, reports, interviews and in-depth features.
• Ensure that your journalism complies with CBC/Radio-Canada’s Journalistic Standards and Practices.
• Produce copy, video, audio, and photos.
• Have sound knowledge of the various multimedia formats and best practices.
• Produce multiple versions of your story for CBC/Radio-Canada’s various platforms as needed.

We are looking for a candidate with the following: 

A) Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and three years of journalism experience or the equivalent.

B) Skills: 

• Strong knowledge of news and current-events.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Understanding of CBC/Radio-Canada’s Journalistic Standards and Practices.
• Proficiency with digital formats.
• Proficiency with content management tools.
• Knowledge of audio, video recording and editing functions.
• Knowledge of audience data.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Advanced oral proficiency, intermediate writing proficiency and advanced reading proficiency in English.
• Strong desire to live and promote the values of diversity and an inclusive and respectful work culture.

Selected candidates will be tested as follows:

• Interviews.

Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.
 

We thank all applicants for their interest, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

As part of our recruitment process, candidates who advance to the next

step will be asked to complete a background check. This includes:  

• A mandatory Criminal record check. 

• Other background checks may be conducted based on the operational requirements of the position.

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.

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