Print Sub-editor

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom dmg::media Full time

**Print Sub-Editor**

Location: Metro Headquarters - London

Position: Permanent

Metro is looking for a sub-editor to join our London team to help deliver news and entertainment to our print audience.

**Role responsibilities**
- Create and curate highly engaging editorial print content, ensuring our large and diverse readership is presented with a compelling final product
- Sub-edit and produce the weekday paper to a high editorial standard, with a focus on news copy and headlines
- Rewrite, fact-check, and correct copy, ensuring it is legally and factually accurate
- Identify potentially sensitive content and escalate to department heads where necessary
- Proofread pages before they go to press
- Make sure all editorial content adheres to Metro's style guide
- Work closely with editors and colleagues to ensure a consistent tone of voice across the Metro brand as a whole

**Essential skills/qualities**
- Excellent standard of written English and attention to detail
- High quality sub-editing and fact checking skills
- Excellent knowledge of current affairs, a strong news sense and the ability to work efficiently and without errors in a fast-paced newsroom environment
- Passion for detail and how articles are presented
- Familiarity with Metro as a brand, both online and in print
- Strong communication and people skills and the ability to work as part of a small team
- Understanding of UK media and copyright laws. Understanding of legal covenants such as the UK Editors' Code of Practice
- Willingness to work in the evenings from Sunday to ThursdayThe above list is not exhaustive and constantly evolves, based on the needs of the business. A high level of adaptability is essential.

**About dmg:media**

dmg media's brands deliver highly engaging, trusted content to millions of loyal customers around the globe, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Together, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, Metro, i, MailOnline, Mail Plus, metro.co.uk and inews.co.uk reach more than 11m people daily in the UK.* Globally, our brands reach 180m unique browsers every month.** In March 2021, the business acquired the world's leading science title, New Scientist.

dmg media's newsbrands are expert at getting to the bottom of the stories most relevant to their readers.
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