Sakshi Media Recruitment for its Online News Portal

sakshi recruitmentAndhra Pradesh’s leading media house, Sakshi Media, which is successfully running www.sakshipost.com, its online English news portal that gets you news as it breaks in the regional, national and international space, is looking to hire people to be part of its organization in Hyderabad.

Listed below are some of the vacancies. If you find yourself suitable for any of the positions, please send an e-mail with your background, CV and contact details to careers@sakshi.com

Sub-editors and Sr. sub-editors for Sakshipost (English news website)
• 1-4 years experience of writing, editing and managing content for an English news website a must
• Have a strong passion for journalism, deliver breaking news and exclusives
• Ensure high editorial integrity and deliver quality content
• Working knowledge of Google Analytics and SEO
• Track news, monitor competition
• Have good understanding of online media content development, management and user behavior
• Should know Telugu and have good awareness of current affairs and news related to Andhra Pradesh

Technical Operations
• 3+ years experience building high-scale consumer-facing web applications on LAMP technologies, especially PHP with ZEND Framework
• Deep knowledge of MySQL, JavaScript, CSS & HTML
• Comfortable with *nix as a development and deployment environment
• Understanding of XML/JSON based RESTful/SOAP APIs
• Understanding of cross-site scripting (XSS) and other client-side vulnerabilities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong analytical skills
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly ability to plan and manage in a rapidly changing environment

Video Content Editor/Manager
• Must have a working knowledge ol Telugu and English
• Fluency in video cutting software
• Passion for video journalism and ability to pick out good news and feature videos
• Should have good awareness of current affairs and news related to Andhra Pradesh

Head- Web Operations
• Lead a team of editors and sub-editors and drive initiative and content on the website
• Control quality of news and its presentation according to set guidelines
• Manage newsroom and resources
• Decide and implement display and lineup of stories on home page. Ideate on headlines, original content and display, ensuring editorial quality
• Actively research viable content through internal and external contacts
• Focus on making the site more interactive
• Track news and monitor competition
• Ensure on time delivery of news related products
• Understand Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Google Analytics and train all team leaders to work on these elements
• Should have good awareness of current affairs and news related to Andhra Pradesh
• Must have a working knowledge of English and Telugu
• Prior experience in content management for any website a must

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