Checkpoint Editor (Manager) at Media Trust Limited – Abuja

Media Trust Limited seeks a Checkpoint Editor at Manager grade in Abuja to lead its specialist unit for investigative, accountability and premium public-interest journalism across print, digital, broadcast and social platforms.

Editorial leadership

• Set the Checkpoint desk’s editorial priorities, workflow and commissioning plans.
• Develop original investigations, explanatory features and documentary projects informed by public-interest needs and underreported issues.
• Build and maintain a pipeline of short-, medium- and long-term editorial projects and pitch proposals to the News Hub.
• Plan, supervise and publish rigorous investigations, ensuring evidence, legal review, editorial accuracy and effective storytelling.
• Coordinate multimedia investigations with reporters, bureaux, producers and output teams.

Documentary, features and verification

• Commission long-form documentaries and multimedia special projects from concept to production.
• Work with video, audio and visual-production colleagues on engaging multiplatform story formats.
• Edit explanatory features, follow-up investigations, analysis, timelines and background coverage.
• Lead fact-checking priorities, identify misleading claims and verify public-interest information.
• Develop verification work around major events, governance and elections with consistent, transparent methods.
• Build effective collaboration with independent fact-checking organisations where useful.

Data journalism and newsroom coordination

• Use official records, datasets and research findings to develop credible public-interest reporting.
• Support data journalists and visual teams in producing charts, maps, explainers and interactive stories.
• Coordinate with News Hub, Audio Visual, Radar & Echo and output desks for commissioning, production and distribution.
• Maintain project entries in the Global Planner, including clear ownership, deadlines and expected outputs.

People management and standards

• Lead and develop journalists, fact-checkers, documentary producers, data journalists and visual investigation specialists.
• Assign work, coach specialists and monitor deadlines, editorial quality and cross-desk collaboration.
• Maintain documented evidence trails, reliable sourcing and appropriate legal, ethical and risk-management procedures.
• Establish a distinctive editorial pipeline producing investigations, features, documentary work, fact-checks, data stories and follow-up accountability reporting.

Requirements

• Senior editorial experience in investigations, public-interest reporting, long-form journalism or current affairs.
• Proven ability to commission, shape and deliver original enterprise journalism and manage complex editorial projects.
• Excellent editorial judgement, verification skills and knowledge of legal and reporting risks.
• Experience across digital, print and broadcast newsroom workflows.
• Documentary commissioning, data journalism, visual storytelling and cross-desk project leadership are advantageous.
• Strong investigative instincts, public-interest values, planning, leadership and calm decision-making under pressure.