Consumer Reporter - casual shifts
Consumer Reporter - casual shifts
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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. In recent years The Sun has campaigned for changes to Universal Credit more protection from high cost credit for consumers and support for those affected by the changes to the Winter Fuel Allowance.
The Sun has a massmarket audience and aims to appeal to a diverse audience in the UK and beyond
Your role: We are looking for a reporter to join our awardwinning Consumer team doing casual shifts. You will have a keen eye for detail and a passion for uncovering stories that impact consumers everyday lives. You will be responsible for investigating consumer issues reporting on the latest trends and providing our readers with insightful and actionable information. The role will cover a wide range of personal finance topics including money saving and business stories.
Day to day you will:
- Have a hunger to beat our rivals day in day out by breaking news and writing exclusive news stories and features online and in print
- Bags of ideas and the ability to generate exclusives from your own sources and contacts
- Write brilliant headlines and copy at speed in the famous Sun style
- Work with the audience video and picture desk to produce brilliant stories
- Work as part of a team and adapting to finding new ways to tell stories
- Help tell stories through video and new formats
What we are looking for from you:
- Online or print reporting experience in a newspaper newsroomnews organisationExpertise in consumer business or personal finance journalism
- Experience using Wordpress or similar CMS system to build content digitally
- Excellent writing skills with the ability to write clean copy to tight deadline
- Passion for The Sun and understanding of the brand in print and online
- Being a selfstarter is key and you will need to thrive under the pressure of a busy newsroom
- Enthusiasm imagination and a notebook full of ideas are all essential
- Unflappable under pressure and delivers work at a consistently high standards
- Positive attitude and good team player
- Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams
- Have a thorough knowledge of the IPSO Code of Conduct media law and ethical considerations
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 marketleading local radio stations across Ireland. Our worldfamous 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: 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 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;
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.
Private medical insurance covering preexisting conditions
Discounted gym memberships ClassPass at Home weekly virtual HIIT yoga and run club classes
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.
Employment Type
Part-Time
