Women's Sports Reporter - London, United Kingdom - The Telegraph

The Telegraph

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Role purpose and overview
A key role as part of the award-winning Telegraph Women's Sport team.

The role involves producing women's sport content in a digital-first capacity, and will include traditional reporter disciplines like coverage of live events, news gathering, feature and interview writing, opinion/analysis pieces and investigations.

With the Olympics and Paralympics this year as well as the European Championship and Rugby World Cup in 2025, it is an exciting time for women's sport and the role will involve covering a wide range of sports.

Key responsibilities

Working with the sports desk to set the agenda in women's sport across a sevenday rota
Generating unique and interesting feature ideas to help engage readers and maximise digital traffic
News and match reporting
Writing engaging news, features, interviews and analysis
Attendance at events and regular contribution of offdiary content
Versatility to cover a range of sports
Producing content across all Telegraph platforms, including social media
Ensuring fast and accurate filing of copy

Key skills

Previous journalistic experience of writing sports content for a newspaper or website
Strong news sense and expertise in developing stories on digital and print platforms
Confidence writing news, match reports, features, analysis and comment
Ability to engage with audiences and build communities on different platforms
Previous experience covering women's sport
An understanding of digital storytelling and optimisation of content through social media and SEO across a range of platforms would be advantageous
A broad contacts book in women's sport is desirable

Our benefits
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 parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), 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

With support from your manager and colleagues, you'll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy.

Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.
Our commitment to inclusion

To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.