Premium Times Services Limited, publishers of Premium Times, is a Nigerian media organisation based in Abuja with a vision to help strenghten Nigeria’s democracy, advance the socio-economic wellbeing and the rights of the people, promote and enrich their cultural practices, and advocate for best practices, good governance, transparency and human rights, in line with the values expected of a modern democratic state. Proprietors of the organisation believe that of all the institutions of a modern democracy, the media matter in large measure. It can help forge new communities, pursue political and social agenda in support of a better society, and help build visions of hope and resistance. Sadly the media can also lead in negative directions: dividing people and truncating hope and vision. In our country, the media have played both roles at different times in our history. Premium Times, founded in mid 2011, believes that the time has come for Nigeria to embrace the challenge of progress and development in a substantial, concrete sense. We bring a huge commitment to offer our country the type of media that will advocate for the people and nudge our nation on the path of development and social reengineering. We are of the view that in terms of its formalistic processes, and its philosophy of content, the new media that will help spur the challenge of educational revolution, cultural rebirth, and economic development, in Nigeria, must be reflective, thoughtful, analytic and empathetic without a sense of entitlement and insularity. We have come to fill that lacuna in our press, and therefore raise the bar of journalism in our country. We will publish across all formats beginning with this online platform where we hope to appeal to the bulk of our young and middle class elites with a vision of the future and a belief in social change.
Ideal candidates should have the high-level ability:
- To spot grammatical and factual errors and clean up copies.
- To identify more robust or more relevant angles buried within stories written by reporters and others.
- To properly contextualise reports.
- To enrich reports with relevant background, analyses, and context.
- To accurately interpret statements/stories even when missed by reporters and other editors.
Candidates must also:
- Be an agent of change.
- Possess strong writing skills.
- Have an aversion to corruption.
- Have proven experience as a standard/copy editor.
- Have good interpersonal relations skills.
- Possess an inquiring mind and logical reasoning.
- Be willing to work.
- An academic background in the English Language is an added advantage.
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