Features Editor

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom News UK Full time

**The Sun** is the biggest news brand in the UK, publishing hundreds of stories a day and reaching over 170m unique users digitally every month. Its exclusives set the news agenda and its campaigns have changed the lives of many. In recent years, The Sun has campaigned for victims of domestic abuse, NHS workers and veterans to name only a few.

The Sun has a mass-market audience and aims to appeal to a diverse audience in the UK and beyond.

**Your role**:You will be responsible for overseeing the features section, managing a team of writers, and curating content that resonates with our diverse audience. Helping to ensure TV Mag has brilliant exclusive interviews, the best access to talent and the lowdown on all the top TV shows so we outshine all other TV magazines and supplements. You will do this by working closely with the Editor, Forward Planning Editor, writers and other departments to ensure we have the best features and previews every week.

**Day to day you will**:

- Write impeccable and colourful copy, including soaps.
- Commission and edit features and previews.
- Set up interviews with talent by liaising with PRs.
- Create clever feature ideas.
- Manage the features team, its workflow and its calendar including approving and making provision for annual leave
- Make the most of our brilliant access to TV talent and seek out exclusives to ensure we rise above the competition week in week out.
- Commission and edit features and previews from permanent staff and freelance writers, and managing payments of freelancers.
- Come up with innovative, creative ideas and concepts for interviews and features on a weekly basis.
- Help manage and compile planning lists and previews lists in collaboration with the features team and industry contacts. Always keep an eye on future issues of the magazine as well as the current one.
- Keep abreast of current affairs and TV news and have a thorough knowledge of the TV and streaming landscape.
- Work across different platforms within the brand and having an awareness of the use of social media
- Work closely and in collaboration with other teams on the magazine, and departments within the company, particularly TV Biz and TV online.
- Make and maintain great contacts with PRs and freelance writers.

**What we’re looking for from you**:

- Outstanding copy editor with a great eye for detail and strong knowledge of house style.
- Outstanding contacts with PRs and agents.
- An expert knowledge of TV shows, celebrities and soap.
- Experience working with a magazine or newspaper
- Willingness to go the extra mile and ability to turn hand to interviews, real-life features, copy-editing and preview writing, often at short notice
- Superb organisation skills, able to manage a busy team and ensure work is fairly distributed and deadlines are always met
- Willingness to work flexible hours whenever required to meet the demands of weekly deadlines. Attending launches, screenings and interviews out of normal working hours.
- Readiness to cover for Editor in their absence and step up to approve layouts, imagery and copy, while also coming up with imaginative and eye-catching headlines and sells.
- Recognising and acting upon any potential legal issues and acting in accordance with the PCC Code of Conduct.

**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

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