Digital Motors Editor - London, United Kingdom - News UK

News UK
News UK
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London, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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News UK is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for storytelling, capturing moments, meaning and magic to make sense of the world. Our newspapers reach more than 30 million people each week and include The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. News UK is also home to Wireless, a leading UK and Irish media company boasting independent local and national radio stations.


The Team:

The Sun Online is the biggest mobile news brand in the UK - and still growing - talented team who publish the best coverage of news, sport, TV and showbiz, lifestyle and family values.


Your role:

We are looking for a Motors Editor to join our online team to lead our digital strategy, manage freelancers and produce news stories, features and video for The Sun's website.

We need a talented, committed journalist to become a key member of this team.


Day to day you will:


  • Generate a daily list of quality editorial ideas which will get strong, engaged traffic for and across our social platforms
  • Devise and constantly develop digital content strategy, working closely with the Audience team
  • Spot and produce brilliant, trafficdriving stories and always beat competitors to the biggest talkers of the day
  • Excellent writing skills with the ability to deliver vibrant and clean copy at speed
  • Ability to write brilliant headlines in the famous Sun style
  • Interpret complex research or information, boiling down the key facts and presenting them in fun and easytounderstand way
  • Have awareness of, and passion for, the commercial opportunities in digital Motors content and ideally have strong contacts in this world or be willing to build them
  • Keep on top of motors trends and spot emerging trends to best enhance your contribution
  • Research, develop and organise future story development

What we're looking for from you:

  • Experience of using analytics to drive increasing traffic by learning what works best
  • Knowledge of cars and motors and how to present this to the broad Sun audience
  • Two years experience reporting on motors or general news for a national website
  • Positive with a cando attitude, who takes initiative and is a good team player
  • A strong understanding of The Sun's online audience
  • Knowledge of social media, SEO and online publishing
  • Being a selfstarter is key and you will need to thrive under the pressure of a busy newsroom
  • Have a thorough knowledge of the IPSO Code of Conduct, media law and ethical considerations
  • Can demonstrate an understanding of The Sun brand, both print and digital
  • Willingness to work flexible hours over a sevenday rota pattern

Life at News:

At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive.

Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued.

We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes.

We also have 11 employee-led networks.


We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the
Health and Wellbeing of our staff.


Some of what we offer includes:

  • A generous
    pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
  • 30 days
    holiday and up to 4
    volunteering days per year;
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Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary &
paternity leave up to 2 weeks;

  • Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
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Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions
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Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes
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'Bikes for Work' scheme

  • Access to
    wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing.

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.


News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500.

At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.

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