SEO Journalist

5 months ago

London, United Kingdom News UK Full time
Job Description

The Sun Online is one of the biggest digital newsbrand in the UK and now the fastest-growing news site in the US. The Sun’s multi-award-winning Audience department sits at the heart of our newsroom, with our talented journalists publishing the best coverage of news, sport, TV and showbiz, lifestyle and family value. Our hugely successful SEO team sits at the core of our publishing operation and is constantly evolving, driving search traffic, growing new audiences, and building engagement and loyalty with our readers.

The role: The Sun is looking for a talented individual to support the development of The Sun’s SEO traffic.

You will be responsible for producing and editing stories for The Sun with SEO principles baked into every story we produce.

Our SEO journalists work on a rota so some evenings (usually one week a month) and weekends (usually once a month) are essential.

Day to day you will: 

Confident in identifying search trends and making recommendations

Optimise the home page making sure all headlines are search friendly and there are plenty of links in every story

Writing stories on a variety of topics

Ensuring all stories are grammatically correct and well-edited 

Able to conduct in-depth research to keep our readers informed and entertained 

Contact sources/PR executives for further information on stories when required 

Communicate with the newsroom on big breaking stories

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

What we are looking for from you: 

Experience writing to a deadline in a fast-paced environment

Understand The Sun Online audience

Work in an editorial setting - preferably a newsroom

An understanding of SEO

Familiar with SEO tools for example Google Trends.

Experience using Wordpress or similar CMS system to build content digitally

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.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

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