Egyptian Civil society project at the American University in Cairo is looking for full time and part time positions:
· print journalists
· Radio journalists.
· Professional audio editors
Key Qualities:
Minimum three years experience
Good Arabic language skills
Also Desirable:
· Prior experience working in New Media and IT skills
please send your cv to assadg@aucegypt.edu
VCs /Reuters Producers/ reporters
Job Description:
1. Reading, researching, translation and assessing ideas and
finished
scripts for Reuters news stories and features.
2. Building and developing a network of contacts;
3. Liaising and discussing projects with management.
4. Using computer software packages for writing scripts, budgeting
and scheduling in addition to sound recording and video audio editing.
5. Controlling the budget and allocating resources for assigned
productions.
6. Pulling together all the strands of creative and practical talent
involved in the project to create a team.
7. Organizing shooting schedules.
8. Troubleshooting.
9. Supervising and increasingly achieving the progress of the
project from production to post production.
10. Bringing the finished production in on budget.
11. Gathering news for assigned stories from credible sources.
12. Voice recording news scripts on edited pieces.
Working Hours: 8 hours per day on shift bases.
Days off: two days per week on shift bases.
Monthly compensation: 4000 L.E. to 6000 L.E. according to qualifications.
Medical insurance: included after the first three months.
Annual leaves: according to Egyptian labor law.
High definition 10 Camera ob van Technical director:
Job Description:
1- Assisting the Director in the control room.
2- Operating the OB Van multi me video switcher.
3- Coordinating the technical aspects of the production.
4- Leads and supervises the OB Van 18 person team.
5- Represents VCS with OB van clients at production.
6- Communicates with VCS concerned departments regarding OB Van
maintenance and operations.
7- Creates ob van production action plan per each specific
production.
8- Illustrates and demonstrates OB Van technical capabilities to
clients.
9- Maintains OB Van inventory.
Working Hours: 8-10 hours per day on shift bases.
Days off: two days per week on shift bases.
Monthly compensation: 6000 L.E. to 8000 L.E. according to qualifications
Medical insurance: included after the first three months.
Annual leaves: according to Egyptian labor law.
If you are interested please contact Sherif Abdel Ghaffar
email sh.ghaffar@videocairosat.com
MBC - Al Arabiya in Dubai is looking for an assistant producer or a producer. He/she should have an acceptable knowledge of drama TV, and media as well. He/she should be fluent in English and another language is a plus for sure.
Should also have computer skills and should be dedicated and must be reliable. He/she will travel a lot around the middle east....etc...." If interested, please send your CV to Ahmed Kamel (ahmed@mbc.ae)
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford is looking for suitable candidates for the new Mona Megalli Fellowship to be offered within the Reuters Foundation Fellowship Programme at Oxford. The Fellowship is tenable for two academic terms (ie. six months) during the 2008-2009 academic year.
The Fellowship is open to a practicing mid-career journalist from the Middle East interested in researching and publishing material about professional standards and journalistic ethics in the region, how these impact on the practice of journalism there, and what changes are needed or could be contemplated to improve the practice of journalism in the region.
The Fellowship is in memory of Mona Megalli, a distinguished Egyptian-American Reuters journalist who died in 2007 after a long illness. Having worked for large parts of her career as a journalist in the Middle East, Mona made a bequest to fund activities and initiatives designed to enhance the professional ethics of journalism in the region. This new Fellowship is one of those initiatives.
To be considered, applicants are asked to submit a proposal which gives details of the proposed research topic and the planned output. The deadline for applications is March 30, 2008. There is a minimum requirement of five years' professional journalistic experience. In order to take full advantage of the excellent facilities of the Institute and of Oxford University, a good working knowledge of spoken and written English is required. Costs of the Fellowship, including travel costs, will be borne by the Reuters Institute, and Fellows also receive a small stipend to cover housing and living expenses.
Details of the Reuters Foundation Oxford fellowship programme, now in its 25th year, and of the application procedure can be found on the Reuters Institute's website.
Meedan is a nonprofit social technology company. Our mission is to forward global understanding and tolerance by providing people and communities with advanced technologies to enable dialogue and the sharing of knowledge. We are multi-cultural, non-partisan, non-ideological, and supportive of diverse viewpoints. Our initial focus is on connecting English and Arabic speakers across the world, because we believe that citizen’s diplomacy, and person-to-person dialogue is critical for improving relations between MENA and Western countries.
By innovating technologies in social networking, media aggregation, and human/Machine Translation, the Meedan platform seeks to create a global community that transcends linguistic, geographic, economic, political and cultural boundaries.
Meedan is currently looking for 2 Media Associates to join our Cairo office and contribute meaningful media content to the English-Arabic website we’ll be launching in April!
Location: Cairo, Egypt
This position is full time, 40 hours per week.
Primary Responsibilities:
Creates featured content for the Meedan public site.
Follows the daily news and enter the important stories into the Meedan system by topic or url.
Helps to find and geo-locate relevant blogs and other online media sources and enter them into the database.
Helps respond to user feedback.
Proposes ideas and plans for upcoming versions of Meedan, to keep up with general new media developments.
Cooperates with US and other Cairo staff to develop and improve Meedan tools and system.
Promotes Meedan offline and online through media and blogger outreach, live events, etc.
Additional Responsibilities, as needed:
Coordinates with US staff to build and manage partnerships and funding relationships in the Middle East/ North Africa.
Coordinates with partners to organize and attend seminars, workshops, conferences.
Represents Meedan at local, regional and international conferences.
Required Skills and Experience:
Demonstrated journalism training or experience
Native Arabic speaker
Good English language skills
Good journalistic and editorial skills
Basic computer skills
Excellent written and oral communication
Understanding of new and traditional media
Able to represent and transmit the mission and values of Meadan to a broader audience.
BA in a relevant area required, MA preferred
Key Qualities:
Energetic team player, willing to take on a variety of tasks
Demonstrated creative problem solver
Strong social networker
Enthusiasm for changing the world through dialogue and information-sharing
Also Desirable:
Prior experience working in New Media
Blogging experience
IT skills
Prior experience working for an international organization Meedan is also looking for a Translation Manager to join our Cairo office and contribute translation expertise to this exciting English-Arabic project!
Location: Cairo, Egypt
This position is full time, 40 hours per week.
Primary Responsibilities:
Manages translation of Meedan’s blogs, home page events, and other key components of the site
Does translations on the site and of other Meedan materials
Builds and manages Meedan’s online translation community
Reviews and approves submitted retranslations
Monitors translation activity on the site
Monitors and makes suggestions to improve Meedan’s Machine Translation
Maintains and builds our English-Arabic glossaries
Required Skills and Experience:
Previous translation experience within a work environment, preferably in a journalistic context
Able to translate both Arabic to English and English to Arabic
Excellent oral and written skills in both languages
Prior management experience
Key Qualities:
Hardworking and creative
Excellent attention to detail
Self motivated
Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
Understanding of new and traditional media
Please send a CV with salary requirements to fhatab@meedan.net , along with 200 words discussing your specific interest in Meedan.
Deadline to apply: March 10, 2008
For more information about our organization you can visit http://meedan.net
We are a 501©3 Charitable Organization
YOUNG JOURNALISTS/FILMMAKERS WANTED FOR METROPOLIS TV
Hivos, the Dutch humanist funding agency, and Netherlands-based NPRO Television are looking for talented young journalists and filmmakers to help create a global network of correspondents for a new multimedia project, Metropolis TV.
Metropolis TV will broadcast weekly TV shows and a video website about small and big world affairs. From New York to Kinshasa and from Tokyo to Calcutta, correspondents will give unique insights into their lives, their countries, their news and their lifestyles.
Filmmakers and journalists will contribute one to four short stories a month about events in their country. They should have proven research, filming and editing skills, lots of ideas and local contacts, and access to equipment in their home countries.
The stories will be featured on the web in Dutch and English, and a selection will be shown in a weekly broadcast on national Dutch TV
Interested? Contact the editors at: metropolis(@)vpro(.)nl or timbuktu(@)vpro(.)nl or see: http://tinyurl.com/3cj5ez
YOUNG JOURNALISTS/FILMMAKERS WANTED FOR METROPOLIS TV
A major Arabic TV Channel needs a reporter based in New York. They need a Female Correspondent that speaks good Arabic, presentable, politically aware, of good character and willing to work hard and learn many aspects of TV work. Experience would be a bonus but not essential, since she would be trained. She would train for a month or two depending on her abilities, before a pilot test report is presented by her to their Head Office for final approval. Interviews can be held immediately.
The email address that candidates should write to is: NYUNBureau@gmail.com
A soon-to-be-launched national newspaper based in Abu Dhabi is looking for young and mid-career journalists. It'll be a general interest newspaper with a very strong business section that will be regionally focused. If interested please contact billspindle@yahoo.com or bill_spindle@emi.ae.
GRN is looking for news correspondents in the US and Latin America.
You must be fluent in Arabic and it's a bonus if you can speak English, French and/or Spanish.
We are looking for TV and radio reporters predominantly, but if you are a print journalist with experience of live TV and radio, that would be appropriate.
For further details please contact:
Mais Al-Bayaa on mais@globalradionews.com or call + 44 207 976 5335
Associate Producer, MTR.org
Overall Job Objective:
Responsible for working under the direction of the Manager, MTR.org to help ensure the quality and performance of MTR.org.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and experience:
- 1-3 years experience producing educational and/or cultural Web content.
- Passion for using interactive media in creative and compelling ways.
- Enthusiasm for the MT&R mission.
- Excellent organizational skills, with an ability to gracefully juggle multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Up for a challenge, but also willing to do unglamorous tasks that need doing.
- Strong commitment to quality and attention to detail.
- Comfortable updating and publishing Web content using a content management system or HTML editor. Ability to help troubleshoot problems with HTML, XML and CSS a plus.
- Ability to produce and edit graphics that are optimized for the Web.
- Familiarity with Flash/Actionscript a plus.
- Ability to work effectively with staff from diverse disciplines and levels of the organization.
Principal Responsibilities
Under the direction of the manager of MTR.org:
- Maintain and assist in the production of content for MTR.org.
- Help brainstorm ideas for content features.
- Research, write and edit content as assigned.
- Monitor and review user-submitted content to ensure alignment with MT&R guidelines, removing content when necessary.
- Communicate production schedules to and collect submissions from MT&R staff and external producers/contractors.
- Report on MTR.org traffic and trends to MT&R staff.
- Assist with outreach to bloggers and other marketing and promotion activities.
- Conduct basic quality assurance testing.
- Create and edit graphics as necessary.
- Participate in MTR-wide initiatives as they relate to the Web or digital media.
- Other duties as assigned.
Please send cover letter and resume via e-mail to Tara Wilcox-Ghanoonparvar, twilcox@mtr.org. Thank you!
Video Cairo (VCS) sat - a news production company- is looking into hiring fresh graduates with a Bachelors Degree in Mass Communication as fulltime producers.
- a news production company- is looking into hiring fresh graduates with a Bachelors Degree in Mass Communication as fulltime producers.
- a news production company- is looking into hiring fresh graduates with a Bachelors Degree in Mass Communication as fulltime producers. For further details please contact Ms. Roleen El Qassim on: 5748941/2/3
A PBS news magazine website is looking for an Online Associate Editor.
Responsibilities:
- Proficiency with video and other new media content is preferred; -experience with online social networking features is desirable.
- This role also contains some duties related to external promotion, outreach and media relations.
- This is a full-time position contracted for a single year: April 07-April '08. -Medical benefits are included.
Experience:
- At least 2-3 years in an editorial capacity for a content website or interactive setting.
- Journalism experience or training preferred. Public > relations experience a strong plus.
- Experience with non-profit/public broadcasting a plus.
- Experience in video production (shooting/editing) also a plus, but not necessary.
Skills:
- Strong expertise in online conceptualization and effective content producing.
- Effective and proficient writing under deadline.
- Comfort with media relations and outreach.
- Proofreading and editing.
- Strong interpersonal ability and comfort.
If interested please contact: Joel Schwartzberg email: www.pbs.org/now
A freelancer is looking for a fixer in Egypt for a documentary about archaeological theft and also to hire an HD kit.
For more information please contact: Ms. Leila Lak email: ll2114@columbia.edu
Rotana Channels are looking for television editors working on Final Cut and/or Pinnacle. For more information please contact:
Ghada Ezz El Din: 012-2187287
MBC 1
Report Producer:
A qualified report producer that has the acadamic training in researching, script writing, shooting and editing a report, and who also has some practical experience in the field.
Assistant Producer:
A mass communication graduate, who has prior experience in television production and is a highly creative, organized, motivational person, with good managing and communication skills, who can work well in a group and assist in managing all stages of a television program production.
Both offers are for the Green Apple program, which is a health and wellbeing show aired on MBC 1.
If interested please contact: howayda@mbc.ae