Chief Sub Editor

2 days ago


London, United Kingdom Reach Full time

It is a really exciting time to join the Reach family at **The Daily Star**. Due to our sustained growth and our committed future growth plans, we are now looking for a **Chief Sub Editor** to join our team.

The Chief Sub Editor will manage the Star subbing team and produce copy perfectly honed for the **Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday.**

We’re looking for fresh ideas and new perspectives from people from a wide range of backgrounds, and we want you to tell us the stories you believe are important from our many communities so we can continue to diversify our content.

**Key Responsibilities**
**What will the role involve?**
- Distribution of subbing work to sub-editors and pages to assistant chief sub-editors
- Overseeing the progress and production of pages for the Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday, at times working under pressure of deadlines
- Managing changes to stories and pages as news events unfold
- Checking the work of sub-editors and advising assistant chief subs on style and treatment of stories and pages
- Revising and improving subbed copy and headlines
- Hitting deadlines while ensuring copy and pages are accurate and mistake-free, with effective or entertaining headlines, written in clear, plain English, following house style and using correct grammar and punctuation
- Ensuring copy is legally sound and adheres to IPSO and company policies
- Carrying out administrative tasks in running the sub-editorial team such as drawing rotas, booking of casual staff and organising payment of casual staff

**Who are we looking for?**
- A deputy chief sub with ideally several years working on a national tabloid newspaper as a deputy chief sub-editor/assistant chief sub-editor or on the backbench
- Well organised and able to work to very tight deadlines
- Ability to manage deputy chief sub editor, assistant chief subs and a team of sub-editors
- Ability to distribute pages and stories to the team so that the work is executed efficiently and productively and on time
- Ability to quickly and decisively check headlines and copy and be able to judge when improvements need to be made, and then make any improvements, sometimes under time pressure
- Ability to manage workflow on a number of pages and stories concurrently, often under pressure of time
- Ability to effectively manage a number of sub-editors working on different stories

**Package Description**
**What can we offer you?**

We are offering a competitive salary and benefits including;
- ** Help saving for your retirement -** join our pension scheme and we’ll match contributions up to 6%
- ** 25 days’ holiday per year when you join.** After three, five and ten years’ service with Reach, you’ll accrue one additional day of annual leave. We also have a **Holiday Purchase Scheme**:

- ** Giving back day -** an additional day’s leave each year to support a cause close to your heart
- ** Enhanced family leave -** including maternity, paternity and adoption - and you’ll be eligible after just six months’ employment
- ** Private Healthcare Cash Plan -** free health cash plan so you can claim back cash for a range of medical expenses
- ** As one of the UK’s top 50 Inclusive Employers** everyone’s invited to join our events, programmes and networks to celebrate diversity and build an environment where all our people can thrive
- ** Wellbeing support -** including a 24/7 assistance programme for you and your nearest and dearest, a free subscription to mindfulness app Headspace and access to free mental health coaching through Sanctus
- ** Awesome career opportunities -** you’ll have support from your line manager and a range of learning & development programmes
- We are also a member of the **30% Club**, a global campaign aimed at increasing gender diversity at board and senior management levels


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