Senior Reporter – Campaign Middle East

This is an excellent opportunity to join Campaign Middle East's team as a Senior Reporter. This is a role based out of Dubai, UAE, although the senior reporter will be required to travel within the UAE and the region, when required.

The candidate will develop content for Campaign Middle East’s digital, magazine, newsletter and social media channels, in both English and Arabic, reflecting the latest news, views, trends, challenges and key moves across the brand, marketing, advertising, creative, media, digital, adtech, influencer, experiential and integrated communications landscape in the Middle East.

Key Responsibilities

• Build close relationships with brand-side marketers and agency leaders across the Middle East.
• Write and publish 2 online Arabic articles per day, including one exclusive news story per week.
• Write and publish 2 online English articles per day, including one exclusive news story per week.
• Write and publish 1 exclusive feature for print magazine per quarter.
• Prepare content for specific pages for the magazine including News and Work, Appointments, Private View, and monthly directories.
• Copy-edit feature articles for the monthly Campaign Middle East magazine and the annual Saudi Report.
• Work with the team to take online, magazine and event content across Campaign Middle East's social media channels.
• Work with the team to commission and edit thought leadership articles from brand and agency leaders.
• Contribute to the weekly wrap-up videos, Gen Z podcasts, and other video-led initiatives for Campaign Middle East’s social media.
• Attend on-ground industry events, activations and review campaigns for online and print coverage.
• Head the Campaign Middle East events team.
• This includes working with the Campaign Middle East team to come up with themes, topics of discussion, and finding the right speakers for events, as well as ensuring seamless communications between speakers, moderators and event sponsors.
• Lead the Campaign Middle East Breakfast Briefing events as the Master of Ceremonies on stage.
• Ensure the event website is updated and help the events and marketing teams with the right social media, website and email marketing collateral from an editorial perspective.
• Maintaining an updated database of speakers and their expertise/specialties.
• Generate ideas for longer-form coverage in line with key industry trends and challenges.
• Work closely with the editor, and the wider editorial and commercial team to elevate the quality of content and add value to new and existing commercial partnerships.
• Maintain high standards of copy and adhering to group-wide compliance policies.
• Benefits At least 3-4 years of experience in reporting in English and Arabic within the Middle East.

Preferred

Strong knowledge of the brand, marketing and advertising landscape, as well as contacts and recommendations from respected leaders within the regional industry. A strong, verifiable portfolio of published content, articles and exclusives in the Middle East. Proven record of breaking news for a media organisation, as well as writing in-depth features and analyses.

Ability to spot trends in market data and conduct research to identify and produce stories. Track record of ability to build network of sources to produce reports. Basic knowledge of Wordpress CMS, Canva, Photoshop, InDesign and video editing tools. Excellent team dynamics – a smooth and seamless cultural fit into a curious, hard-working, diligent and trustworthy team that delivers outcomes without micro-management.

About Campaign Middle East:

The MENA region's leading business media authority on brand, marketing, advertising, and the creative industries, Campaign Middle East was launched in Dubai in October 2008 by Ian Fairservice, Managing Partner and Group Editor-in-Chief of Motivate Media Group.

When Campaign Middle East launched 16 years ago, it was set on the firm foundations of the global Campaign brand, published by Haymarket in the UK, which had already cemented its position as the world's top advertising publication for more than 50 years.

Since then, Campaign Middle East has set the tone and raised the bar for market-leading coverage of the brand, marketing, advertising, creative, media, digital, adtech, influencer, events and experiential, integrated communications, as well as the wider creative industries across the MENA region.

As such, it has claimed the top spot on the podium as the most-respected B2B publication reflecting and resonating the news, work, research, data-led insights, pitches, appointments, expertise and opinions from the industry.

Motivate Media Group is the region’s leading multi-platform content producer with a diverse portfolio of media interests comprising magazines, digital, social, video, exhibitions and events, cinema, OOH and books. Interested candidates may apply attaching a copy of their CV, sharing a portfolio of recent articles, and a one-page cover letter.