Senior General and Business Reporter – Cairns Post

Dow Jones; Cairns Regional; On-site; AUD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Access to News Corp publications

Perks & discounts

Health & wellbeing

Development opportunities

Volunteer & community programs

Job summary

The Cairns Post, part of News Corp Australia, is seeking a driven senior general and business reporter to cover Far North Queensland. You will move between breaking news, community issues, and sharp business reporting—across tourism, aviation, property, local government, infrastructure, agriculture, and regional development—and tell stories with authority, speed, and clarity.

You will build and maintain a wide contact network, report under tight deadlines, and contribute to cross‑platform print

Qualifications

• Experience in general and/or business reporting with a strong news sense.
• Ability to develop exclusive, original stories and maintain extensive contacts.
• Comfort reporting across breaking news, community issues, and economic trends.
• Clear, authoritative writing across news, features, and analysis for diverse platforms.

Responsibilities

• Produce accurate, timely general and business reporting across Far North Queensland on tight deadlines.
• Break exclusive stories by leveraging a wide contact network in tourism, property, infrastructure, council, and small business.
• Deliver sharp regional economic coverage on company activity, investments, jobs, and policy decisions.
• Cover breaking news promptly without sacrificing accuracy or authority.
• Publish digital content with strong headlines, metadata, and image choices.
• Collaborate with editors and photographers to deliver cross‑platform journalism.

Skills

General reporting

Business reporting

Source networks

News sense

Digital publishing

Time management

Job description

What's the role?

Are you ready to break agenda-setting stories in one of Australia’s most distinctive and fast-moving regions? The Cairns Post is seeking a driven senior general and business reporter to deliver accurate, compelling, and original content across Far North Queensland, covering the people, industries, and issues shaping the area. In this role, you will move confidently between breaking news, community-impact stories, and sharp business reporting – spanning key sectors from tourism, aviation, and property to local government, infrastructure, small business, agribusiness, and regional development—identifying the stories that matter most and telling them with authority, speed, and clarity.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce accurate, timely, and publish-ready general news and business reporting across Far North Queensland on tight deadlines.
• Break exclusive, original stories by maintaining source networks across tourism, property, infrastructure, council, crime, courts, small business, agriculture, and local communities.
• Deliver sharp regional economic coverage on company activity, investments, jobs, cost-of-living pressures, resources, and policy decisions.
• Cover fast-moving breaking news promptly without sacrificing accuracy or journalistial authority.
• Format and publish digital content effectively, managing headlines, tags, metadata, and picture selection within newsroom workflows.
• Collaborate with editors, photographers, and the wider newsroom to deliver impactful cross-platform print and digital journalism.
• Represent The Cairns Post professionally while demonstrating sound news judgment in a competitive media environment.
• Drive reader online engagement and support subscription growth across digital platforms.

Who are you?

• You're an experienced journalist with a proven track record in general and/or business reporting, a sharp news sense, and a strong interest in the industries, challenges, and opportunities shaping regional Australia and Far North Queensland.
• You can confidently generate your own stories, chase hard, and build trust to develop and maintain a wide contact network.
• You're comfortable reporting across a diverse scope, from breaking news and community issues to business, development, and economic trends.
• You can work under pressure, manage competing deadlines, and quickly turn around clean, accurate, publish-ready copy while maintaining high editorial standards.
• You write clearly, confidently, and authoritatively across news, features, and analysis, with the ability to analyse complex issues and explain them in a way that is accessible and engaging for readers.
• You understand digital publishing and feel confident working across platforms in line with newsroom workflows.
• You're flexible, willing to embrace change, and able to demonstrate agility in a fast-paced sector.
• You're highly self-motivated and maintain exceptional personal organisation and time management skills.

Why News Corp Australia

Join a culture where innovation is our operating rhythm. You’ll work on a diverse portfolio of Australia’s most loved brands and play a pivotal role in leading the technological shift in how we create commercial content. Our vibrant, hybrid work environment and dynamic, values-driven culture empowers you to push boundaries, collaborate as one unified team, and make a positive, measurable impact for all Australians.

News Extras Benefits

• Exclusively ours - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
• Perks & discounts - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services that deliver genuine cost savings and benefits
• Health & wellbeing - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)
• Time off - News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.
• Financial wellbeing - Support on making the most of your money
• Helping you grow - Access tailored development opportunities, including leadership programs to cultivate your skills and support your career
• Giving back - Make a difference to our communities through volunteer opportunities and company-organised charity drives
• Workplace Inclusion and facilities – Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents’ rooms

Who are we?

The Cairns Post is an agenda-setting newsroom in Queensland and part of Australia’s most influential media organisation. Each month more than 17 million Australians choose to consume news and information from NewsCorp’s digital and print products – more than any other media group in Australia. At the Cairns Post, you’ll have the chance to make a genuine impact in a region with a strong identity, a diverse economy and no shortage of important stories. You’ll cover a dynamic patch where tourism, development, environment, agriculture, Indigenous affairs, politics and business regularly intersect, and where strong journalism matters.

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