Foreign News Reporter, Casual - London, United Kingdom - News UK

News UK

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Full time

Description

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.

Your Role:

The Sun is looking to bring in a sharp and motivated Foreign News Reporter to join Fleet Street's most dynamic operation.

You will be joining a large and exciting team covering foreign news in a historic period of seismic world events.

As a casual reporter, you will have the opportunity to be offered full-time work while still enjoying some flexibility and the ability to accrue holiday pay.

Day to day you will:

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Come brimming with ideas on how best to cover world events.
Be comfortable working across platforms, including appearing on camera.
Have a strong work ethic and an ability to work to directives and deadlines.
You will deal well with pressure and be a team player.
Have an instinct for how to 'sell' a digital story to get maximum impact on The Sun's platforms and also on social media.
Have excellent news judgement.
Help present stories in visually striking ways through the use of images, composites and videos.
Work independently to make wellinformed and quick decisions.
Flexible attitude to working hours across seven days, day or evening

What we are looking for from you:

Experience reporting at a national news organisation OR at least two years of experience reporting at local news level.
A working knowledge of the IPSO Code of Conduct, media law and ethical considerations.
Knowledge of social media, SEO and online publishing.
Excellent writing skills, especially the ability to bring vibrancy and clarity to articles with very tight deadlines.
An understanding of The Sun brand, both in print and digital.

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, Talk 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.