The Business Times (BT) is South-east Asia’s leading business publication based in Singapore, the region’s financial hub. As an audience-centred digital news publisher, we are looking for meticulous individuals with an eye for detail who are ready to work in a fast-paced, real time environment to deliver high-quality content to our readers.
In the Sub-Editor role, you will work closely with BT’s editors, digital/print content and audience teams to ensure a high standard of editorial content that is optimised for a digital audience across BT’s platforms, including (but not limited to) its website, apps and multimedia offerings.
Responsibilities
- Swiftly edit copy into tight, clear and readable stories before they are published on BT’s various platforms
- Conduct fact-checking to ensure accuracy and identify logical leaps or holes in reporting.
- Write headlines and captions, select images, and improve story ledes
- Assist with real-time story choices for BT’s homepage, oversee and send push notifications
- Assist with digital content optimisation, including adding hyperlinks to stories, embedding video and other mobile-friendly visual content, tagging content
- Monitor and draw from wires and other sources to assist in populating BT’s site with breaking news
- Help lay out news pages to make the print medium more engaging to readers
Requirements
- Applicants should have a strong command of English and an eye for accuracy and details.
- Ability to execute editing and optimisation tasks swiftly given the real-time environment of a digital news site.
- A degree, experience or interest in economics, stock markets and business affairs would be an advantage.
- Familiarity with Search Engine Optimisation, Internet-friendly headlines, social media platforms are pluses.
- Knowledge of analytics tools (including Google Analytics and Chartbeat) is not necessary, but would be useful.
- Flexibility in deployment across afternoon or evening shifts.
