Assistant Digital Features Editor

Assistant Digital Features Editor

**Location**:
London

Department:
The Sun

Salary Details:
Not Specified

**Advertising End Date**:
10 Dec 2024

**Job Description**:
**Assistant Digital Features Editor**

**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. Delivering news, entertainment, and sports coverage to millions of readers every day. With a rich history spanning decades, we are dedicated to providing accurate, insightful, and engaging content across print and digital platforms.

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

The role requires a self-motivated, energetic individual who has extensive media experience and is used to operating within a fast-paced news environment.

**Your Role**: As the Assistant Digital Features Editor at The Sun, you will develop and implement a diverse content strategy, commission and edit feature stories, and lead a creative team of writers. You’ll stay current with trends, coordinate multimedia content, collaborate with other departments, and engage with our audience. Additionally, you’ll innovate with new formats and mentor junior writers, ensuring our features are timely, relevant, and captivating. Your role is crucial in maintaining The Sun’s reputation for high-quality, engaging feature journalism.

**Day to day you will**:
+ Generate and commission a daily list of top-quality editorial feature ideas.

+ Work with other editors to ensure all copy is of the highest standard and honed for digital with the best boxouts, video, graphics and expert analysis.

+ Edit copy across a wide variety of topics to the highest possible standard.

+ Spin features ideas from the big news stories and ‘talkers’ of the day and execute them to tight deadlines.

+ Spot social media trends and know how to make them into clickable features for the Sun audience.

+ Use digital editorial analytics tools to adapt the features strategy and drive ideas.

+ Develop an awareness as to how we use social media and suggest collaborations with Sun celebs.

+ Commission unique and punchy op-ed pieces from named writers that trigger debate and engagement.

+ Edit and commission extracts and interviews from up-and-coming books, podcasts, films and TV shows.

+ Nurture a brimming contacts book of writers and PRs who can deliver unique content ideas.

+ Mentor junior feature writers in finding unique case studies and developing their feature writing skills.

+ Keep a forward-planning document up to date with key editorial ideas.

+ Working a shift pattern of one week of later shifts in every three may be necessary.

+ Have a thorough knowledge of the IPSO Code of Conduct, media law and ethical considerations

**What we’re looking for from you**:
+ Deep understanding of The Sun brand, both print and digital

+ Previous experience of using a digital CMS for editing is essential

+ Unflappable under pressure and delivers work at a consistently high standard

+ Proactive and displays a willingness to take on any task

+ Always takes initiative in order to achieve desired results

+ Self-starter, organised and a good problem-solver, able to eliminate obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches

**News UK** is 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 and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local 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 multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

**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.

We offer a flexible working arrangement where employees are expected to be in the office a minimum of three days per week. For the remaining two days, there is the option to work remotely if desired.

**Benefits**

Some of our benefits include:
+ Maternityleave up to 18 weeks full basic salary &paternityleave up to 2 weeks

+ Wide range oftrainingavailable, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

+ Private medical insuranceincluding coverage for pre-existing conditions

+ Discou