News Analyst

Role Overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual with a passion for technology, social media, and online content to be at the forefront of breaking news. You will be an integral part of the algorithm training process, helping to define important factors for clients.

Job Responsibilities

• Reviewing and analyzing real-time data from various sources.
• Identifying, verifying, tagging the right news topic and location, and drafting captions for breaking news using client tool.
• Performing quality assurance (QA) on algorithmic data streams to improve dataset output.
• Staying up-to-date with social media and local news publishers events in APAC region
• Participating in user experience (UX) research studies for internal QA tools.
• Audit and programmatically apply business rules for data validation
• Monitoring and provide constant feedback on QA algorithmic data streams to improve the quality of the dataset output
• Participate in UX user research studies for internal QA tools
• Stay up-to-date on new events, policies, processes, and procedures in APAC region
• A goal and result-oriented mindset.

Required Qualifications

• Proficiency in Mandarin/Cantonese and the ability to translate content into English.
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills (B2 or equivalent).
• A degree, preferably in Journalism, Communications, Translation, English, political/social sciences, or a related field.
• 0-6 years of work experience as a reporter covering breaking news, or working in digital media, or an educational equivalent.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
• Ability to monitor and analyze real-time data from multiple datasets