News Reporter

🔥 13 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📰 Journalist

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Newsquest Media Group

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1001 - 5000 employees

📱 Media

🛍️ eCommerce

Media • Advertising • eCommerce

Newsquest Media Group is a media company committed to providing authoritative news and digital marketing solutions tailored for local communities. With a diverse portfolio of over 250 local news brands and magazines, they serve 41 million digital users monthly and 7 million print readers weekly. Their dedicated team of journalists and sales professionals focus on fostering community engagement through reliable journalism and effective advertising strategies, ensuring local businesses can thrive through data-driven decisions.

📋 Description

• Using your SEO skills to reach the largest possible audience • Using search tools to research and understand the topics people are searching for • Identifying and exploring topics in which local brands can legitimately become an authority • Producing high-quality, accurate digital news stories, live blogs and features to deadlines as agreed by editors • Respond quickly to breaking news events and support newsrooms with accurate and valuable content • Work with the Head of Central Digital Content to understand what to research and write next • Building communities online and in real life to share stories with once published, and become engaged with readers about those stories • Thinking creatively to come up with new original story ideas and ways to deliver them to our audience that suit our digital platforms • Spotting and developing national and regional content that could resonate in your patch and making it relevant and interesting to our readers • Helping devise and manage a carefully-plotted SEO forward plan calendar to ensure we don’t miss a beat • Ensuring every piece of content is thoroughly researched and balanced before publication • With guidance from editors, using analytics to identify what our readers like and what they want next from our coverage • Joining forces with Newsquest’s central team and your counterparts across the UK to share ideas, best practice, success stories and skills • Communicating with newsrooms around the country to ensure your coverage chimes with the local market

🎯 Requirements

• An understanding of search engine optimisation (SEO) and skills in producing content which works in search • Knowing what readers want to read, using both your keen news sense and data insights • Passion for telling stories which will grow new diverse audiences • Exceptional attention to detail • The ability to write – and think – quickly under pressure • A keen news sense • Bags of ideas for how stories can be presented in the best possible way for our audiences • An understanding of what audiences want, and when • Excellent social media skills and the ability to spot stories and trending topics • NCTJ qualification (including 100wpm shorthand) • Excellent knowledge of relevant media law • An adaptable style to produce everything from live blogs and listicles to long-reads and features • Great people skills and the ability to get on with a wide range of people in the community • A high level of organisation and the ability to manage your own diary out on patch • Collaborative skills to pool ideas with the wider digital reporting team and take on board suggestions

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays + your birthday off • Holiday buy scheme for extra flexibility • Structured career progression & ongoing training • Pension plan • Employee Helpline counselling and advice • Perks & discounts including: • Gym membership • Cycle to Work scheme • Eye care • Retail discounts • Team building days & annual volunteer charity day