Assistant Opinion Editor

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom dmg::media Full time

**Assistant Opinion Editor**

Location: i Headquarters - London
Position: Permanent

**Package Description**

In return for their energy and ideas we ensure our people are well rewarded. Our benefits package increases the longer you've been with us. Here's what to expect:

- 25 days' holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
- Upon joining you will be automatically enrolled onto the Pension Plan at the minimum level of 5% employee contribution, 3% Company contribution.
- Life cover under the Pension Plan of up to 3x your basic salary.
- DMGT Discounts (for discounts on online shopping, vouchers and reloadable cards)
- Subsidised canteen
- Onsite gym
- Onsite nurse and GP clinics
- Our Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounted dining cards

Plus many other benefits.

**Job Introduction**

**Key areas of Responsibility**
- Working with editors and audience specialists to publish brilliant opinion journalism with impact
- Finding and developing new voices to expand i's digital reach and entertain our growing subscriber base
- Developing contacts with high profile writers and agents to help expand I's stable of columnists
- Commissioning daily opinion pieces, editing copy and liaising with other editors in the newsroom
- Co-ordinating forward planning to ensure the strongest possible line-up for major events
- Using data intelligently to commission pieces that will resonate with i's digital audience

***Skills and experience**
- Strong track record of commissioning impactful content across multiple platforms
- Experience editing and commissioning to tight deadlines
- Excellent contacts book of writers and high-profile figures, as well as ideas for new and diverse voices
- Sharp copy-editing ability, with a knack for spotting great angles and headlines
- Collegiate and effective communication skills, with the confidence to liaise diplomatically with newsroom colleagues
- Good judgment, with the ability to react quickly and confidently to rapidly developing news events
- A commitment to i's editorial standards of impartial and incisive coverage
- Good knowledge of media law and the Editors' Code of Practice

**About Us**

Launched in 2010, i is Britain's youngest national news publisher delivering trusted, non-partisan public interest reporting. Through deep reporting, incisive commentary and must-read lifestyle journalism, i built a strong digital subscriber audience, grown its reach to over 11m users a month and broken some of the biggest scoops in UK journalism - while maintaining a healthy print circulation. Growing in influence and profitable, i is shortlisted for news website and national newspaper in the 2024 Press Awards, and is a recent winner of Daily Newspaper of the Year (London Press Club) and News Website of the Year (Online Media Awards).

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