Medical Journalist - London, United Kingdom - Limbic Digital Media

Description

About _the limbic_

• The limbic_ is an independent online platform providing the latest clinical and medicopolitical news, expert insight and education to medical healthcare professionals in the UK and Australia.

Meeting the unique needs of our audience through high quality relevant content is at the very heart of what we do and we believe this approach is what sets us apart from our competitors.

By putting our audiences first we've grown to be the largest news and medical education platform for nine specialist audiences in Australia and now we have similar ambitions for the UK and a plan on how to get there.

The role
If you're someone with proven experience writing news for healthcare professionals then we'd love to speak to you. We can offer a competitive salary and benefits package and flexible working conditions.

This role reports to the Editor and Global Editorial Director.


What you will be doing

• Sourcing and writing clinical and medicopolitical news for our professional medical audiences;
• Building and maintaining contacts and connections with key experts and organisations within our key specialist areas;
• Using social media to engage with audiences;
• Using content management systems to upload and publish news, reviewing and proof reading content;
• Attending and reporting on medical conferences in the UK and Europe; and
• Maintaining ethical standards of journalism as well as positive working relationships with _the limbic _staff and other key stakeholders.

Who you are

• Have a solid understanding of science and health reporting for a highly specialised audience;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including demonstrated ability to communicate with and write high quality copy for an expert medical audience;
• Experience in a fastpaced news reporting environment with tight deadlines;
• Flexible and a proactive 'can do' attitude and the ability to work autonomously as well as with a team across different time zones;
• Demonstrated skills and experience in managing a complex workload, problem solving and use of initiative;
• Experience using content management systems, Twitter, LinkedIn.