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posted_at: 3 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
Job Description
The Times and The Sunday Times are looking for an SEO and Audience development manager for the Travel department to focus on creating and implementing ideas to grow and engage our audience.
You will be responsible for running digital projects, sharing applicable insights and making recommendations on what Travel stories we cover and how. Every day you will be monitoring and identifying trending topics for editorial to find innovative
Job Description
The Times and The Sunday Times are looking for an SEO and Audience development manager for the Travel department to focus on creating and implementing ideas to grow and engage our audience.
You will be responsible for running digital projects, sharing applicable insights and making recommendations on what Travel stories we cover and how. Every day you will be monitoring and identifying trending topics for editorial to find innovative ways to optimise our award-winning journalism. This includes monitoring evergreen and KWR for commercial SEO insight.
You will also play an active role in writing headlines and adding high-quality internal links to improve the reading experience. This includes suggesting keywords for URLs, optimising headlines for sells.
You will make digital-first publishing plans that span seven days and get the most out of our content for subscriber engagement as well as promotional plans to find new audiences. You will closely analyse data and feed... insights into commissioning editors as well as being a key ambassador for audience-led thinking.
As part of the Travel team you will attend team meetings that share insights, have the opportunity to teach and learn from your colleagues and benefit from a wealth of expertise in search engine optimisation, social media, newsletters and digital strategy.
Apply with a covering letter and your CV by April 10.
Key skills
• The ability to retrieve and interpret data, then effectively communicate relevant insights
• Ownership and implementation of building the traffic forecast and reporting on these each week/month/quarter
• Strong SEO editorial knowledge and technical SEO experience
• Strong instinctive for social media and a strategic approach to channels
• Understanding of online communities and how to create / engage within them
• Experience working with Google Analytics and keyword research tools
• The ability to create regular keyword gap and competitor analysis
• Excellent knowledge of third-party platforms and using them tactically to reach new audiences
• Good understanding of digital consumer behaviour and the ability to apply that knowledge to a subset of subscribers to increase engagement
• The ability to approach a large project from above to identify audience needs and decide the most relevant growth and engagement tactics to employ
• Experience with long-term planning and an ability to combine multiple different inputs, such as SEO keyword research with audience data and editorial trends, to derive new insights and recommendations for desks
• A strong understanding of editorial compliance and regulatory issues
• Represent TNL travel at press and PR events
This job is for you if
• You thrive on multi-disciplinary working and can work across different platforms efficiently
• You like to use a combination of data and audience empathy to get to know your readers and meet their needs
• You are an excellent communicator and comfortable with setting goals to meet targets across various departments and stakeholders
• You are passionate and excited about the future of journalism and keeping up to date with the latest digital trends
• You can explain trends and patterns in traffic clearly and concisely
• You are always up to date with SEO and digital publishing developments
To apply you must have the right to work in the UK.
We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In April 2022, we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs and entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News: At News UK we believe our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want the ways we work to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but do provide multiple flexible working options. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 9 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship, Women’s Steering Group and Disability network.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.
In addition we also offer:
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
• 30 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all Show more details...
The Times and The Sunday Times are looking for an SEO and Audience development manager for the Travel department to focus on creating and implementing ideas to grow and engage our audience.
You will be responsible for running digital projects, sharing applicable insights and making recommendations on what Travel stories we cover and how. Every day you will be monitoring and identifying trending topics for editorial to find innovative ways to optimise our award-winning journalism. This includes monitoring evergreen and KWR for commercial SEO insight.
You will also play an active role in writing headlines and adding high-quality internal links to improve the reading experience. This includes suggesting keywords for URLs, optimising headlines for sells.
You will make digital-first publishing plans that span seven days and get the most out of our content for subscriber engagement as well as promotional plans to find new audiences. You will closely analyse data and feed... insights into commissioning editors as well as being a key ambassador for audience-led thinking.
As part of the Travel team you will attend team meetings that share insights, have the opportunity to teach and learn from your colleagues and benefit from a wealth of expertise in search engine optimisation, social media, newsletters and digital strategy.
Apply with a covering letter and your CV by April 10.
Key skills
• The ability to retrieve and interpret data, then effectively communicate relevant insights
• Ownership and implementation of building the traffic forecast and reporting on these each week/month/quarter
• Strong SEO editorial knowledge and technical SEO experience
• Strong instinctive for social media and a strategic approach to channels
• Understanding of online communities and how to create / engage within them
• Experience working with Google Analytics and keyword research tools
• The ability to create regular keyword gap and competitor analysis
• Excellent knowledge of third-party platforms and using them tactically to reach new audiences
• Good understanding of digital consumer behaviour and the ability to apply that knowledge to a subset of subscribers to increase engagement
• The ability to approach a large project from above to identify audience needs and decide the most relevant growth and engagement tactics to employ
• Experience with long-term planning and an ability to combine multiple different inputs, such as SEO keyword research with audience data and editorial trends, to derive new insights and recommendations for desks
• A strong understanding of editorial compliance and regulatory issues
• Represent TNL travel at press and PR events
This job is for you if
• You thrive on multi-disciplinary working and can work across different platforms efficiently
• You like to use a combination of data and audience empathy to get to know your readers and meet their needs
• You are an excellent communicator and comfortable with setting goals to meet targets across various departments and stakeholders
• You are passionate and excited about the future of journalism and keeping up to date with the latest digital trends
• You can explain trends and patterns in traffic clearly and concisely
• You are always up to date with SEO and digital publishing developments
To apply you must have the right to work in the UK.
We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In April 2022, we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs and entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News: At News UK we believe our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want the ways we work to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but do provide multiple flexible working options. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 9 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship, Women’s Steering Group and Disability network.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.
In addition we also offer:
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
• 30 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all Show more details...
via Vacancies
posted_at: 3 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
Job Description
We are looking for a senior Product designer to join the Times and Sunday Times product design team.
The Role: You will collaborate with numerous teams across both titles – editorial, engineers, product management, product, commercial, marketing – as well as helping to form relationships with other design teams across the wider News UK business. You will join a team that defines the digital product experiences for thetimes.co.uk,
Job Description
We are looking for a senior Product designer to join the Times and Sunday Times product design team.
The Role: You will collaborate with numerous teams across both titles – editorial, engineers, product management, product, commercial, marketing – as well as helping to form relationships with other design teams across the wider News UK business. You will join a team that defines the digital product experiences for thetimes.co.uk, mobile apps, newsletters, subscriber journeys and editorial publishing tools.
You will be self-motivated, have a fascination with solving problems, and be at ease working independently or collaboratively as part of a team. You will be passionate about developing a suite of products that will engage our subscribers so they get the best experience possible when reading The Times and The Sunday Times.
You will be brimming with creative ideas and have a demonstrable interest in current affairs and culture.
Please apply with a covering letter... and your CV by May 29.
The Team: The product design team aims to deliver clean, engaging ways of attracting customers and telling stories. Our overarching aim is to deliver a beautiful product that serves our journalism in the best way possible, with new and innovative ways of reaching existing subscribers and attracting potential new readers.
Skills and Experience
• In-depth product design capabilities
Experience and knowledge of industry-standard product design software, such as Figma, Sketch and Adobe Creative Cloud, as well as prototyping tools, and research tools such as Userzoom etc.
• Strong communication skills
The ability to collaborate with other disciplines, and the ability to sell your ideas confidently, always knowing when to push and when to pull. Experience of facilitating working sessions with cross-functional teams.
• UX/UI standards
Understanding of human-centred design principles. A track record of making impactful change through smart, data-driven UX implementation. Strong knowledge of the latest industry standards in web and app user experience.
• Research
Happy taking part and conducting research with readers, interpreting results, identifying needs and putting them into action.
• Newskit
Contribute to and be a champion of the Times Design System.
• Keeping a cool head
The ability to deliver on time in a fast-paced environment with short and long-term deadlines.
• Think creatively
The skill to think outside the box and solve problems, not just be an artworker. Be enthusiastic about an idea and bring people along with you.
• Attention to detail
An awareness of product design trends and the desire to deliver beautiful, user-centred solutions. Be keen to self-evaluate your work, but always be open to feedback from peers.
• Industry experience
Ideally editorial/publishing or subscriber-based product experience, but not essential.
• Coding
An understanding of the structural components of the web, eg HTML and CSS.
• Collaboration
Collaboration is key. A lot of stakeholders means a lot of discussions – it’s good to talk, but you should know when you need to crack on to hit that deadline.
What we are looking for from you:
• You love product design and you’re interested in news and current affairs.
• You enjoy collaborating with a variety of stakeholders from different disciplines/sections of the paper, all wanting their say. We don’t design by committee, but you love balancing all the opinions to create the best possible outcome.
• If you want the opposite of a small design agency experience.
We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In April 2022, we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs and entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News
At News UK some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.
In addition we also offer:
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate Show more details...
We are looking for a senior Product designer to join the Times and Sunday Times product design team.
The Role: You will collaborate with numerous teams across both titles – editorial, engineers, product management, product, commercial, marketing – as well as helping to form relationships with other design teams across the wider News UK business. You will join a team that defines the digital product experiences for thetimes.co.uk, mobile apps, newsletters, subscriber journeys and editorial publishing tools.
You will be self-motivated, have a fascination with solving problems, and be at ease working independently or collaboratively as part of a team. You will be passionate about developing a suite of products that will engage our subscribers so they get the best experience possible when reading The Times and The Sunday Times.
You will be brimming with creative ideas and have a demonstrable interest in current affairs and culture.
Please apply with a covering letter... and your CV by May 29.
The Team: The product design team aims to deliver clean, engaging ways of attracting customers and telling stories. Our overarching aim is to deliver a beautiful product that serves our journalism in the best way possible, with new and innovative ways of reaching existing subscribers and attracting potential new readers.
Skills and Experience
• In-depth product design capabilities
Experience and knowledge of industry-standard product design software, such as Figma, Sketch and Adobe Creative Cloud, as well as prototyping tools, and research tools such as Userzoom etc.
• Strong communication skills
The ability to collaborate with other disciplines, and the ability to sell your ideas confidently, always knowing when to push and when to pull. Experience of facilitating working sessions with cross-functional teams.
• UX/UI standards
Understanding of human-centred design principles. A track record of making impactful change through smart, data-driven UX implementation. Strong knowledge of the latest industry standards in web and app user experience.
• Research
Happy taking part and conducting research with readers, interpreting results, identifying needs and putting them into action.
• Newskit
Contribute to and be a champion of the Times Design System.
• Keeping a cool head
The ability to deliver on time in a fast-paced environment with short and long-term deadlines.
• Think creatively
The skill to think outside the box and solve problems, not just be an artworker. Be enthusiastic about an idea and bring people along with you.
• Attention to detail
An awareness of product design trends and the desire to deliver beautiful, user-centred solutions. Be keen to self-evaluate your work, but always be open to feedback from peers.
• Industry experience
Ideally editorial/publishing or subscriber-based product experience, but not essential.
• Coding
An understanding of the structural components of the web, eg HTML and CSS.
• Collaboration
Collaboration is key. A lot of stakeholders means a lot of discussions – it’s good to talk, but you should know when you need to crack on to hit that deadline.
What we are looking for from you:
• You love product design and you’re interested in news and current affairs.
• You enjoy collaborating with a variety of stakeholders from different disciplines/sections of the paper, all wanting their say. We don’t design by committee, but you love balancing all the opinions to create the best possible outcome.
• If you want the opposite of a small design agency experience.
We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In April 2022, we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs and entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News
At News UK some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.
In addition we also offer:
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate Show more details...
via Newsquest - Newsquest Media Group
posted_at: 3 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
We’re looking for a dynamic senior journalist to run the news desk at the Southern Daily Echo in Southampton.
Our preferred candidate will be someone with strong experience working in the regional press, with a firm grasp of digital and social media and excellent organisation skills.
You’ll be a key leader in the newsroom responsible for working with reporters to ensure the news team meets the demand of our huge audience on dailyecho.co.uk
Digital
We’re looking for a dynamic senior journalist to run the news desk at the Southern Daily Echo in Southampton.
Our preferred candidate will be someone with strong experience working in the regional press, with a firm grasp of digital and social media and excellent organisation skills.
You’ll be a key leader in the newsroom responsible for working with reporters to ensure the news team meets the demand of our huge audience on dailyecho.co.uk
Digital will be at the forefront of everything you do, and you will also liaise with the print team to ensure they have all the content needed to put together the daily printed newspaper.
Reporting to the Editor, you’ll work alongside the Digital Editor to grow subscriptions, and newsletter sign-ups and constantly monitor audience opportunities across search and social.
Salary & Benefits
• Salary range £30,000 to £34,000 depending on experience
• Workplace Pension
• Perks & Discounts at various retail outlets
• Opportunities for team building... and training days
• Full 25 days paid holiday + statutory bank holidays + your birthday day off!
• Structured career progression, ongoing training, and personal performance reviews
• Discount Vouchers
• Discounted Gym membership
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Mental Health Support via Lifeworks
• Eye test vouchers plus £50 towards new glasses.
• Annual Volunteer Charity day
LOCALiQ is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation Show more details...
Our preferred candidate will be someone with strong experience working in the regional press, with a firm grasp of digital and social media and excellent organisation skills.
You’ll be a key leader in the newsroom responsible for working with reporters to ensure the news team meets the demand of our huge audience on dailyecho.co.uk
Digital will be at the forefront of everything you do, and you will also liaise with the print team to ensure they have all the content needed to put together the daily printed newspaper.
Reporting to the Editor, you’ll work alongside the Digital Editor to grow subscriptions, and newsletter sign-ups and constantly monitor audience opportunities across search and social.
Salary & Benefits
• Salary range £30,000 to £34,000 depending on experience
• Workplace Pension
• Perks & Discounts at various retail outlets
• Opportunities for team building... and training days
• Full 25 days paid holiday + statutory bank holidays + your birthday day off!
• Structured career progression, ongoing training, and personal performance reviews
• Discount Vouchers
• Discounted Gym membership
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Mental Health Support via Lifeworks
• Eye test vouchers plus £50 towards new glasses.
• Annual Volunteer Charity day
LOCALiQ is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation Show more details...
via Vacancies
posted_at: 22 days agoschedule_type: Contractor
Job Description
Your role:
News UK is one of the most exciting media businesses in the UK, and home to a portfolio of high profile TV, radio, digital and print brands which together reach around 40 million people each month. From The Times to The Sun, talkSPORT to TalkTV, our brands tell the stories that matter.
This multidisciplinary communications executive role has a broad remit, at the heart of the News UK’s busy communications and commercial
Job Description
Your role:
News UK is one of the most exciting media businesses in the UK, and home to a portfolio of high profile TV, radio, digital and print brands which together reach around 40 million people each month. From The Times to The Sun, talkSPORT to TalkTV, our brands tell the stories that matter.
This multidisciplinary communications executive role has a broad remit, at the heart of the News UK’s busy communications and commercial marketing team. It is a brilliant opportunity for someone in the early stages of a communications career to fast-track their experience, offering practical participation across all aspects of communications, and an inside view of the media.
Your team:
News UK runs a busy and effective communications function, covering corporate comms, B2B PR & media relations, internal communications and events, and consumer PR for key broadcast brands (including Virgin Radio and TalkTV).
You will work closely with the External and Internal... Communications Managers in the delivery of a busy comms strategy supporting News UK and its business units, as well as responding speedily to unfolding events that impact the organisation. You’ll also work closely
with other stakeholders across the business, including Heads of Communications for The Times & The Sunday Times, The Sun and TalkTV, as well the Head of Trade Marketing and colleagues in key teams including HR.
Your day to day will include:
• Creating engaging content for our owned channels, including the News UK intranet, website and social media channels, including LinkedIn and Twitter. You will regularly write in a range of styles, as well as manage and deliver internal newsletters and campaigns.
• Leading our daily and issues-led media monitoring, compiling reports for senior stakeholders and liaising with our media monitoring provider.
• Playing a key role in organising virtual and in-person events; being involved in the creation and editing of video and photographic content and contributing to our employer brand work.
• Supporting the press office function: drafting press releases, pitching stories to B2B and consumer media, researching media targets and reporting on results.
• Monitoring breaking news in the media and advertising industry and ensuring the senior team is informed in daily reports.
What we’re looking for from you:
We’re looking for someone who is hardworking, highly motivated, keen to make an impact and to develop a career in communications. The ideal candidate will have already spent 1-2 years in a corporate, internal or consumer communications setting, in an agency or in-house - as well as having a passion for media, current affairs and the business of news.
• Strong communications experience: 1-2 years within agency or in-house, ideally across a mix of corporate and internal comms.
• Excellent writing ability: experience in writing content to engage a variety of different audiences in a variety of different styles - from intranet stories to social media posts to press releases.
• Superb attention to detail in all aspects of your work, as well as the ability to identify potential problems and proactively resolve them.
• Great organisational skills in creating, maintaining and updating media monitoring and other team tools.
• Excellent time management and the ability to prioritise, meeting deadlines efficiently and effectively.
• Video editing and photoshop software experience
• A good understanding of the daily news agenda and have a passion for current affairs and the news industry.
We are News UK: Our iconic newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our broadcasting business comprises national stations talkSPORT, Times Radio, and Virgin Radio - home to the Chris Evans Breakfast Show and Graham Norton at the weekend – as well as market-leading local stations across Ireland. TalkTV is our major TV channel, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show.
What's in it for you?
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
• 25 days holiday and up to four volunteering days per year;
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to two weeks;
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
• Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, a free Headspace membership, access to Peppy, a free health app designed to provide you, with expert health support, tests, and personalised advice, a private GP service, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme
• Learning and Development courses, access to a range of qualified internal and external coaches who can work with you on a 1-1 basis to help you achieve your goals, and a full LinkedIn learning licence with more than 16,000 courses and personalised recommendations
• Digital subscription to The Times and The Sunday Times, and access to a 70% discount on all HarperCollins books
• News Corp will match any donation you make to charity pound for pound, up to $500, or make a donation based on the amount of time you have spent volunteering for a cause, up to the same amount
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have a number of employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.
Equal opportunities:
The Company is an equal opportunities employer and wholeheartedly supports the principle of equal opportunities for all its employees and for all applicants for employment. It opposes all forms of discrimination in the workplace.
We are a diverse team so want to maximise every individual’s potential to create a productive environment where everyone feels valued, and where talents are fully recognised and utilised.
This means affording equal access to any employment opportunities within the Company according to your ability, without prejudice or discrimination by reason of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, disability or age.
Application process
• Please apply via this advert. If you would like more information, please contact anil.koobarawa@news.co.uk
• Must include a cover letter, up to 750 words, explaining why News UK should be your next move, and how your experience maps to the role Show more details...
Your role:
News UK is one of the most exciting media businesses in the UK, and home to a portfolio of high profile TV, radio, digital and print brands which together reach around 40 million people each month. From The Times to The Sun, talkSPORT to TalkTV, our brands tell the stories that matter.
This multidisciplinary communications executive role has a broad remit, at the heart of the News UK’s busy communications and commercial marketing team. It is a brilliant opportunity for someone in the early stages of a communications career to fast-track their experience, offering practical participation across all aspects of communications, and an inside view of the media.
Your team:
News UK runs a busy and effective communications function, covering corporate comms, B2B PR & media relations, internal communications and events, and consumer PR for key broadcast brands (including Virgin Radio and TalkTV).
You will work closely with the External and Internal... Communications Managers in the delivery of a busy comms strategy supporting News UK and its business units, as well as responding speedily to unfolding events that impact the organisation. You’ll also work closely
with other stakeholders across the business, including Heads of Communications for The Times & The Sunday Times, The Sun and TalkTV, as well the Head of Trade Marketing and colleagues in key teams including HR.
Your day to day will include:
• Creating engaging content for our owned channels, including the News UK intranet, website and social media channels, including LinkedIn and Twitter. You will regularly write in a range of styles, as well as manage and deliver internal newsletters and campaigns.
• Leading our daily and issues-led media monitoring, compiling reports for senior stakeholders and liaising with our media monitoring provider.
• Playing a key role in organising virtual and in-person events; being involved in the creation and editing of video and photographic content and contributing to our employer brand work.
• Supporting the press office function: drafting press releases, pitching stories to B2B and consumer media, researching media targets and reporting on results.
• Monitoring breaking news in the media and advertising industry and ensuring the senior team is informed in daily reports.
What we’re looking for from you:
We’re looking for someone who is hardworking, highly motivated, keen to make an impact and to develop a career in communications. The ideal candidate will have already spent 1-2 years in a corporate, internal or consumer communications setting, in an agency or in-house - as well as having a passion for media, current affairs and the business of news.
• Strong communications experience: 1-2 years within agency or in-house, ideally across a mix of corporate and internal comms.
• Excellent writing ability: experience in writing content to engage a variety of different audiences in a variety of different styles - from intranet stories to social media posts to press releases.
• Superb attention to detail in all aspects of your work, as well as the ability to identify potential problems and proactively resolve them.
• Great organisational skills in creating, maintaining and updating media monitoring and other team tools.
• Excellent time management and the ability to prioritise, meeting deadlines efficiently and effectively.
• Video editing and photoshop software experience
• A good understanding of the daily news agenda and have a passion for current affairs and the news industry.
We are News UK: Our iconic newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our broadcasting business comprises national stations talkSPORT, Times Radio, and Virgin Radio - home to the Chris Evans Breakfast Show and Graham Norton at the weekend – as well as market-leading local stations across Ireland. TalkTV is our major TV channel, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show.
What's in it for you?
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
• 25 days holiday and up to four volunteering days per year;
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to two weeks;
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
• Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, a free Headspace membership, access to Peppy, a free health app designed to provide you, with expert health support, tests, and personalised advice, a private GP service, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme
• Learning and Development courses, access to a range of qualified internal and external coaches who can work with you on a 1-1 basis to help you achieve your goals, and a full LinkedIn learning licence with more than 16,000 courses and personalised recommendations
• Digital subscription to The Times and The Sunday Times, and access to a 70% discount on all HarperCollins books
• News Corp will match any donation you make to charity pound for pound, up to $500, or make a donation based on the amount of time you have spent volunteering for a cause, up to the same amount
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have a number of employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.
Equal opportunities:
The Company is an equal opportunities employer and wholeheartedly supports the principle of equal opportunities for all its employees and for all applicants for employment. It opposes all forms of discrimination in the workplace.
We are a diverse team so want to maximise every individual’s potential to create a productive environment where everyone feels valued, and where talents are fully recognised and utilised.
This means affording equal access to any employment opportunities within the Company according to your ability, without prejudice or discrimination by reason of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, disability or age.
Application process
• Please apply via this advert. If you would like more information, please contact anil.koobarawa@news.co.uk
• Must include a cover letter, up to 750 words, explaining why News UK should be your next move, and how your experience maps to the role Show more details...
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Dynamic senior journalist with strong experience of working in the regional press wanted to run the news desk of a Southampton daily title
Dynamic senior journalist with strong experience of working in the regional press wanted to run the news desk of a Southampton daily title
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