Assistant Editor Pendragon Press Ltd location Auckland. $64,500 – $90,000 per year.

Professional requirements we are looking for a senior journalist with significant newsroom experience to join our team in its weekly production of our community newspaper publications on Waiheke. These are the nearly 50-year-old Gulf News which has a long history of success in community reporting and its companion publication, the Waiheke Weekender, which showcases the quality of life on a rather famous offshore island for both residents and visitors during leisure time.

The role requires trained attention to accuracy and grammar, time management and a tolerance for a wide range of community views and the position could suit a professional journalist coming back into the work force after raising a young family.

We currently have a news team of four (full-time equivalent) journalists, a team of contributor-columnists out in the community and a managing editor with considerable local knowledge. Gulf News and Waiheke Weekender continue to be locally owned and published.

The size of our operation means this senior position would be across all aspects of production, including monitoring and redirecting incoming news sources and community activities arriving by email and generating news briefs for the reporting team. Subediting and checking weekly news coverage and features with attendant illustrations, captions and headlines, including legal and copyright issues.

Sharing responsibility with the managing editor for weekly deadlines and copy flows to ensuring timely delivery to the production and layout team. Managing and maintaining established systems of news coverage in the areas of the Auckland Council, Waiheke Local Board, community/local authority issues, ferries, schools, community events, Piritahi Marae and taha Māori and to maintain calls to a range of contacts within each news round to ensure that the newspaper widely reflects views within each interest sector.

In essence, the assistant editor’s role is to generate powerful, informative, accurate and timely editorial content within an efficient production schedule and where necessary to oversee the weekly production of news and news features for both Gulf News and the Waiheke Weekender.