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About The Telegraph
The Telegraph is an award-winning, multimedia news brand synonymous with quality, credibility and authority for more than 160 years.
We are renowned for the analysis, perspective, opinion and insight our journalism provides to a diverse and discerning audience. Every day the content we create sets the news agenda, sparking debate and provoking comment.
Our journalism is given life across our multi-platform portfolio, including The Telegraph website and app, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph newspapers and their digital version in The Telegraph Edition app. Our content is also distributed on a range of third party platforms including Apple News, Facebook, Snapchat, Google Home and Amazon Alexa. With 25 million UK visitors every month and 90 million browsers globally, our journalism reaches more people than ever before.
Our vision is to pioneer new ways to serve at least 10 million registered customers through quality journalism and experiences, bringing them closer to us and each other. We’ll achieve this with the constant evolution of our journalistic techniques and by using the data and understanding we have of
The Telegraph’s well-informed audience to successfully further diversify into and grow revenue streams from advertising, travel, events, financial services and subscriptions.
Role Purpose and overview
Responsibility for assisting the News Editor and Deputy News Editor to create, plan and execute daily news coverage for the Telegraph website and newspaper.
Key responsibilities in this role
- Responsibility for assisting the News Editor to create, plan and execute daily news coverage for the Telegraph website and newspaper.
- Ensuring Telegraph.co.uk website News page is up to date with breaking news and exclusive stories.
- Devising digital content and creative ways to tell news stories to online audiences.
- Liaising with other departments: video, SEO, social to ensure best possible coverage of and audience for news stories.
- Liaising with and managing specialist journalists and reporters to work on stories and plan coverage.
- Managing and nurturing junior members of newsdesk and reporting staff.
- Take sole charge of The Telegraph’s news output when required and on rota, at weekends.
- Attending conference and planning meetings on behalf of the newsdesk, presenting plans to editor and other senior editorial staff.
Essential skills required for the role
- Proven track record of news editing at a high level.
- Ability to seek out exclusive and breaking stories.
- Experience of planning coverage of future news events and preparing diary items of news.
- Experience of working to tight daily deadlines.
- Strong ability to write and edit articles clearly, concisely and to house style.
- Be familiar with and have experience of digital storytelling techniques.
- Have a good working understanding of social media channels.
Please make your application as soon as possible. Our intention is to interview for this role in early January.
The Telegraph’s goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds.
We are an equal opportunities employer, hiring solely on merit and business need. We encourage applications regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood and disability. If you require reasonable adjustments in any recruitment process with us, please make us aware.