Mwananchi Communications Limited (MCL), a subsidiary of Nation Media Group (NMG), is Tanzania’s largest independent news news network with an award-winning presence in print and digital media, and exciting new ventures in innovation and events ecosystems. We are publishers of leading national news brands Mwananchi, The Citizen and Mwanaspoti in print and digital formats, and proprietors of the Mwananchi Digital suite of products and Mwanaclick. We are audience-led, market-driven with a clear mission to empower the nation.

Responsibilities or duties

Editorial Quality & Standards

• Edit, refine, and approve copy for print and digital platforms, ensuring accuracy, balance, grammar, style, and clarity.
• Enforce house style, editorial guidelines, and ethical journalism standards.
• Ensure headlines, captions, standfirsts, and pull quotes are accurate, facts, compelling, names, and platform-appropriate.
• Verify facts, figures, names, and sources to minimise corrections and legal risk.

Print & Digital Production

• Oversee daily print pagination and digital publishing workflows.
• Adapt content for different formats, including web, mobile, and social media.
• Ensure stories are optimised for digital consumption, including SEO best practices.

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead and manage the sub-editing team, allocating workloads and managing shifts.
• Mentor and train digital editors, sub-editors, and junior staff.
• Conduct performance reviews and contribute to skills development planning.
• Foster a culture of accuracy, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Newsroom Coordination

• Liaise with reporters, section editors, photographers, and multimedia teams to improve story quality.
• Participate in editorial meetings and contribute to content planning.

Legal & Ethical Compliance

• Ensure compliance with media laws, defamation standards, and editorial ethics.
• Work with legal advisers on sensitive or high-risk stories.
• Ensure corrections and clarifications are handled promptly and transparently.
• Flag potential editorial, ethical, or legal issues and escalate when necessary.

Additional details from responsibilities

• Work closely with designers, production teams, and digital editors to meet deadlines.

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

Minimum Qualifications & Experience

Academic: Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Mass Communication, English, or a related field.

Experience: 5 years’ newsroom experience, with significant time in sub-editing roles, and digital-first storytelling.

Any other provided details (e.g., benefits, work environment, team info, or additional notes)

NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

• Edit, refine, and approve copy for print and digital platforms, ensuring accuracy, balance, grammar, style, and clarity.
• Enforce house style, editorial guidelines, and ethical journalism standards.
• Ensure headlines, captions, standfirsts, and pull quotes are accurate, facts, compelling, names, and platform-appropriate.
• Verify facts, figures, names, and sources to minimise corrections and legal risk.
• Oversee daily print pagination and digital publishing workflows.
• Adapt content for different formats, including web, mobile, and social media.
• Ensure stories are optimised for digital consumption, including SEO best practices.
• Lead and manage the sub-editing team, allocating workloads and managing shifts.
• Mentor and train digital editors, sub-editors, and junior staff.
• Conduct performance reviews and contribute to skills development planning.
• Foster a culture of accuracy, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Liaise with reporters, section editors, photographers, and multimedia teams to improve story quality.
• Participate in editorial meetings and contribute to content planning.
• Ensure compliance with media laws, defamation standards, and editorial ethics.
• Work with legal advisers on sensitive or high-risk stories.
• Ensure corrections and clarifications are handled promptly and transparently.
• Flag potential editorial, ethical, or legal issues and escalate when necessary.
• Work closely with designers, production teams, and digital editors to meet deadlines.

• Sub-editing
• Digital-first storytelling
• SEO best practices
• Leadership
• Team management
• Mentoring
• Training
• Performance reviews
• Skills development planning
• Collaboration
• Continuous improvement
• Newsroom coordination
• Legal and ethical compliance
• Fact-checking
• Copy editing
• Content adaptation
• Print pagination
• Digital publishing

• Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Mass Communication, English, or a related field.
• 5 years’ newsroom experience.
• Significant time in sub-editing roles.
• Experience in digital-first storytelling.