Key responsibilities and accountabilities
- Deliver engaging and shareable stories that are relevant to our audience
- Generate original story ideas
- Produce error-free copy to tight deadlines
- Ensure best-use of images and video content
- Work closely with specialist colleagues in social, video, SEO, data, print and other areas to generate and publish well-written and well-presented content
- Ensure that all content is of the highest possible standard and adheres to ‘house-brand’ requirements, with an awareness of the readers’ point of view. Ensure legal and taste and decency obligation are adhered to.
- Conduct research to uncover interesting and significant news/stories.
- Work across different sections and stand in for colleagues as and when required.
Skills and Experience
- Ability to generate own news stories
- Producing fast and accurate copy on breaking stories
- Identify stories with high-interest and traffic potential
- Two years’ experience of working in a fast-paced newsroom
- Ability to write strong headlines
- A good understanding of SEO and social media strategies to ensure stories are seen by a wide audience
- A good eye for images and photographs
- Video editing experience
- NCTJ qualification or equivalent
- Flexibility to cover a 24/7 rota, including evenings and weekends
- Expert Understanding of the data in journalism for story discovery and story treatment.
- Good writer, communicator and visual story-teller.
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