Correspondent Agence France-Presse

AFP, one of the world’s leading news agencies, is looking for a dynamic and highly motivated English-language reporter to join its editorial team in Karachi.

You must be capable of producing fast, accurate and vivid copy in formats ranging from breaking analysis, features and in-depth angles telling the story to a global audience.

You will cover a broad range of topics from politics, social issues and the environment to technology and sports as part of a multi-media team producing both daily news and off-diary features. Economic and business coverage, including the national budget, is also an important component of the job. You are also expected to generate original, imaginative and lively feature and focus stories.

Reaching younger audiences is central to our coverage and the successful candidate will be packed with bright multimedia ideas that boost the file.

You will strive to ensure multimedia coordination for simultaneous delivery of video, text, photo, factcheck to clients and generally operate under AFP’s high standards of accuracy and fair reporting.

You will closely monitor social media and strictly adhere to the Agency’s guidelines on social media activity. As a general rule, you commit to respecting AFP’s ethics charter as well as all the editorial guidelines in force and in the Agency’s style guide.

You will contribute to the fight against mis/disinformation by helping factcheckers in the network and ensure you are trained in the various methods of online verification, now indispensable for all journalism. Online training is available here.

In an ever-changing media environment, the nature of the job could evolve in line with coverage demands and the requirements of an increasingly diverse client base.