Business Reporter

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Role purpose and overview

The Telegraph is looking for an ambitious journalist to join its growing business team.
The business team covers everything from FTSE 100 companies to the best of the UK's small businesses, from house price data to macro-economic statistics.
The principal focus of the business reporter is the pharmaceuticals industry and general business reporting, producing strong, interesting reporting which will work as well digitally as it does in print. They will sometimes also be expected to take on other topics as requested by the business desk editors.
Applicants will need to have an acute news sense and be demonstrable self-starters. They will also need to be numerically literate, team players, and digitally savvy.
Key responsibilities
- Breaking great news stories about the pharmaceutical industry.
- Producing in-depth, colourful features on the industry and the characters behind it.
- Ensuring fast and accurate filing of copy.
- Helping to maximise digital subscriptions through concise and interesting storytelling.

Essential skills required for the role
- Experience of reporting on news and developing stories on digital and print platforms.
- Demonstrable proof of the ability to tell stories in a concise but interesting way.
- Experience of covering either business and/or economic news in a newspaper, newswire or digital environment.
- Highly numerically literate.
- Digitally savvy - understanding of digital storytelling and optimisation of content through social media and SEO.

Additional skills useful for the role
- Ability to spot stories and opportunities from raw data.
- Previous experience of covering the construction and property industry and a strong contacts book.

This role is a chance to play a key part in the Telegraph’s Business team and help shape its coverage of a priority area for our readers. It would suit someone with a keen eye for a story in annual reports and industry statistics and a willingness to put time into forging relationships across the industry.
- The Telegraph supports flexible working, per your line manager’s agreement.
- A range of excellent benefits (including on-site gym, massages, and more).
- In-role development and access to formal development.

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and equal parental pay (six months fully paid for mothers and fathers), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

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