Sharon Ogunleye
Multimedia Journalist
Istanbul
Summary
An accomplished international journalist with extensive experience leading and shaping news content for global media companies. Passionate about storytelling, specialising in breaking news and live events, and thrives in high-pressure deadline-driven environments. Sharp editorial judgment and excellent understanding of current affairs and global news audiences.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Programme Editor
TRT World
Istanbul
11.2022 - Current
- Building balanced, accurate, up-to-date and viewer-focused news bulletins every hour.
- Generating story ideas while ensuring news programmes reflect diversity of our audience.
- Discussing ideas with news teams and producers and deciding what stories should be covered.
- Coordinating with presenters, foreign correspondents, news desk, and interviews department on stories and global coverage needs.
- Writing headlines, scripts, main pages, openings and closings in bulletins.
- Reviewing packages and segments in rundowns and ensuring they are error free.
- Delivering original and market-leading output in line with the editorial agenda of channel.
- Outputting breaking news and live events.
- Directing broadcast crew.
- Managing and motivating teams of deputy programme editors and output producers.
Deputy Programme Editor
TRT World
Istanbul
01.2020 - 10.2022
- Assisting the programme editor in ensuring the team delivers the necessary output for television.
- Assigning producers and checking stories, straps, graphics for accuracy, quality of pictures and adherence to the channel's style guide.
- Pitching story ideas and suggesting new ways to tell stories to an international audience.
- Monitoring news agencies and news from network feeds for potential stories.
Television News Producer
TRT World
Istanbul
02.2018 - 12.2019
- Producing engaging and up-to-the-minute TV news reports and sequences.
- Writing news scripts, straps, cutting videos, and reviewing news packages received from reporters.
- Producing news packages for news and programmes.
- Delivering creative graphics.
- Coordinating with correspondents and presenters to structure news and guest segments.
- Working with producers within my team, news desk and digital team, to cultivate a collaborative approach to news gathering and delivery across the channel.
- Maintaining good knowledge of current news stories and suggesting ideas for coverage.
- Providing training for new staff on the usage of newsroom production techniques.
Chief Producer
Thomson Reuters
Lagos
07.2012 - 01.2018
- Delivering breaking news and feature stories.
- Managing fast transmission of edits and scripting in the office and on the field during breaking news, and live events.
- Managing a team of reporters in maintaining a focused daily news coverage plan.
- Coordinating, producing, editing, and scripting specific news features.
- Coordinating with London desk, South Africa, and Nairobi for news and news features.
- Managing the regional output of news features, business news, entertainment news, financial news, and sports stories for Reuters TV app.
- Liaising with the press office of relevant organisations.
- Collaborating closely with Text and Photography departments in developing and delivering multimedia content.
- Monitoring social media sites for breaking news and potential feature stories.
- Recruiting new and sustaining efficient TV reporters to cover breaking news and news features.
- Representing Reuters Television internally and externally in building and maintaining strong relationships with local and international clients; successfully representing the company during client visits, getting much-needed feedback, and making recommendations on best practices for utilising Reuters’ services.
Education
PgD - Multimedia Journalism
Pan-Atlantic University
Nigeria 08.2014 - 12.2015
Bachelor of Arts - Mass Communication
Delta State University
Nigeria 01.2002 - 12.2005
Skills
Sound editorial judgment
Excellent TV production skills
Strong production vision
Creative and dynamic
Team player
Self-starter
Certification
Hostile Environment Training
Timeline
Programme Editor
TRT World
11.2022 - Current
Deputy Programme Editor
TRT World
01.2020 - 10.2022
Television News Producer
TRT World
02.2018 - 12.2019
PgD - Multimedia Journalism
Pan-Atlantic University
08.2014 - 12.2015
Chief Producer
Thomson Reuters
07.2012 - 01.2018
Bachelor of Arts - Mass Communication
Delta State University
01.2002 - 12.2005