News Desk Journalist

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom The Economist Full time

_The Economist _is looking for a journalist to join its digital team in London. Please note: applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

This is a hybrid role that encompasses our evolving daily briefing products and our news-publishing operations for our apps and website. The role involves some shift and weekend working.

The mission is to help ensure that _The Economist’_s daily digital offering provides topical, habit-forming, high-quality analysis that suits a variety of different audiences, and in particular that our daily briefing services provide a responsive view of the day’s essential global stories.

Key responsibilities include:

- Planning, writing, editing and updating our daily briefing services
- Ensuring timely and smooth publication of digital-only and early-digital stories
- Updating elements of our home pages, hubs and section pages
- Monitoring news services and alerting senior editors to breaking stories and our audience teams to opportunities to resurface our published content

Objectives:

- Ensuring that our daily briefing service is timely, distinctive and a pleasure to read
- Ensuring that our digital publishing processes run faultlessly, throughout the week and around the clock
- Helping to ensure that the home pages of our digital products and channels like newsletters and social media reflect the news cycle

Key relationships include:

- Editor, digital news products
- Senior news editor
- Head of audience
- Regional digital editors (depending on locations)

The ideal skills for these roles are:

- An ability to write and edit crisply and cleanly
- Excellent news judgment and analytical rigour
- Experience of working in a news environment
- A calm head and an eye for detail
- An understanding of global politics, business and finance
- The Economist Group values diversity. We are committed to equal opportunities and creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. We welcome applicants regardless of ethnic origin, national origin, gender, gender identity, race, colour, religious beliefs, disability, sexual orientation, age or marital status._

**Salary**: £35,000.00-£60,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free or subsidised travel
- Life insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Profit sharing
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Day shift

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

COVID-19 considerations:
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Application question(s):
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London

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