Media Analyst

Job Responsibilities

• Read, analyze, and summarize media coverage of important issues across APAC — particularly Indonesia, South Korea and Japan
• Inform the wider team on news cycles and policy issues in APAC and put them into their local context
• Provide hard-language coverage (Indonesian, Korean, Japanese) where automated monitoring tools underperform
• Create reports with media insights (including visualization) to assess the impact of different news cycles and inform future strategy
• Support the communications team in developing meaningful success metrics for its campaigns and initiatives across traditional (news) media outlets as well as owned, paid-for and earned social media activity

Minimum qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in a media analysis, research, journalistic, communications or related role, or working for a media agency, media analysis firm, a media measurement platform or think tank
• Fluent English + native or fully fluent in at least one of: Bahasa Indonesian (Korean or Japanese would be a massive advantage)
• Working knowledge of Business English and native Bahasa Indonesia
• Experience owning multiple deliverables and working in a deadline driven environment
• Experience in handling data sets and visualizing data a plus
• Experience drafting messaging materials; writing news summaries is a plus
• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Broadcast, Political Science, Marketing, Economics, Statistics or related field

Preferred qualifications

• Experience covering APAC media landscape (Indonesia, Korea, Japan — including hard-to-access print and broadcast outlets)
• Experience in working with media monitoring tools a plus (CisionOne, Brandwatch, Press Pulse, Signal AI, TVEyes)
• Experience in carrying out measurement projects using data platforms to monitor media coverage and analyze social media conversation
• Understanding of metrics and analytics within the media environment