Live News Editor

7 months ago


London, United Kingdom News UK Full time

**Live news editor**

The live news editor is responsible for helping to deliver a distinctive live content package for the The Times and The Sunday Times website. They will ensure the quality of our digital journalism, editing live breaking news, improving online copy, pictures, graphics and video and guaranteeing that all output remains true to the Times and Sunday Times aesthetics.

**Responsibilities**
- Successfully manage productive relationships with the news editor, the planning editor, the wider news desk and production editors across the newsroom
- Help to manage the workflow for stories on the homepage, agreeing them with desks and chasing copy
- Use SEO, Inca, Parsley and Google Trends to help guide decision making and constructing headlines
- Present “tomorrow’s top stories” at news conference when required
- Take a holistic view of the day’s content across all sections and how/where it will appear on the homepage and section fronts
- Work closely with the planning editor to get ahead of the biggest stories coming down the track
- Cover other shifts across the news desk as and when required
- Use social networking and other digital platforms for content generation and to promote The Times and Sunday Times content

**Skills and experience**
- Experience working as a digital news editor for a national newspaper or major digital news organisation
- Demonstrable interest in news and current affairs as well as good knowledge of features and sport
- An ability to work under pressure, to tight deadlines and with rigorous accuracy
- Persuasive presentation skills, well-developed interpersonal skills, with the ability to problem-solve
- Able to communicate succinctly and effectively
- Able to use social media platforms to engage current and new audiences for The Times and The Sunday Times
- Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams
- A strong understanding of editorial compliance and regulatory issues

**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, TalkTV and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform 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**

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

**Benefits**

Some of our benefits include:

- **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
- **Private medical insurance** **including coverage for pre-existing conditions
- **Discounted gym memberships**,** free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
- **‘Bikes for Work**’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
- Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
- Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
- Access to **wellbeing benefits** **such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
- A generous **pension **scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
- 25 days **holiday**, plus bank holidays and up to 4 **volunteering **days per year


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