Junior Visual Producer

Position: Permanent/Full Time

Location: The i Paper Headquarters, HSK, London, W8 5HY

About The Role
The i Paper is seeking a Junior Visuals Producer to join its newly formed Visuals team working across digital, social platforms and print.

Working within our visuals team, you will support the sourcing, organisation and delivery of high-quality imagery across web, mobile, print and social platforms.

This role is ideal for someone starting out in visual/picture journalism, who has a sharp eye for imagery, an understanding of digital platforms and a curiosity about how visuals drive audience engagement.

The i Paper is Britain's youngest national news publisher – and one of the most trusted. We have a unique mission: publishing impartial news and intelligent opinion. With a strong digital subscriber audience and a healthy print circulation, The i Paper has also grown digital reach to more than 8m people a month. Growing in influence and profitable, The i Paper is the UK's 2025 News Website of the Year (Press Awards) and 2024 Newspaper of the Year (Newspaper Awards). We pride ourselves on having a dynamic, collegiate work environment that celebrates creativity, innovation and success

Main Responsibilities

• Source and select images from wires, archives and agencies to meet content needs across digital platforms (including social channels) and print.
• Ensure all images are rights-cleared, credited and captioned correctly.
• Assist with image planning for a range of desks – travel, lifestyle and culture prominent among them – including galleries, longform stories, and section specials.
• Support the archiving and organisation of visuals, tagging and filing for future use.
• Work closely with section editors to deliver timely, relevant imagery.
• Prepare images for platform use, ensuring they meet basic technical requirements (orientation, resolution, metadata).
• Maintain awareness of visual tone and brand standards, ensuring consistency across lifestyle and travel output.
• Monitor wires for breaking news (as directed by the team leader, but with a particular focus on travel, culture and lifestyle desks), flagging visual opportunities quickly to editors.
• Support colleagues in the visuals team with ad-hoc requests and broader newsroom needs when required.
• Be curious to learn visual storytelling and production techniques, and new technical skills, to help develop our visuals operation and your own career.

Person Specification
Essential

• Demonstrable interest in visual journalism (e.g., photography, digital media, social visuals)
• Understanding of digital platforms and audience behaviours (esp. mobile and social)
• Organised, detail-oriented, and able to work to tight deadlines
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams
• Willingness to learn picture rights, metadata standards, and newsroom workflows

Desirable

• Experience working with wire photo services or DAM systems (e.g., Reuters Connect, Getty, Alamy)
• Familiarity with lifestyle and travel media trends
• Basic knowledge of Photoshop, Canva, or similar tools (for light adjustments and exports)
• Previous newsroom or media production experience

Why Join Us?
This is a chance to join a newsroom in transformation, where visuals are central to how we connect with audiences across all platforms. You'll play a central role in delivering standout imagery for our lifestyle and travel journalism, while learning from experienced colleagues and shaping the future of visual storytelling.

About The i Paper
The i Paper is the only national newspaper that's never supported a political party and it reaches more than [9.2] million readers each month in print and online.

It is committed to delivering accurate, impartial news and intelligent debate, trusting readers to make up their own minds.

It is the winner of 2024 UK Newspaper of the Year and is rapidly growing its digital subscriptions base, recently hitting [70k] total subscriptions.

Our Commitment
We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.