Sub-Editor

• Subbing news stories and features for print and digital editions ensuring that all copy meets the highest editorial standards.
• Meticulously checking facts spellings and grammar and rewriting copy where appropriate in collaboration with section editors and writers.
• Cutting copy to fit print pages and writing compelling headlines and captions.
• Working with designers and picture editors to complete finished print pages.
• Subbing digital-first content and writing engaging headlines for each platform to meet the latest SEO guidelines.
• Important: Please read the task details in the Qualifications section and submit this as your sample of work along with your CV and cover letter. Applications cannot be considered without the completed task.

• NCTJ qualification or degree in newspaper journalism
• NCTJ-qualified journalist with at least two years experience subbing for a national daily or weekly title preferably a national daily newspaper
• Proven track record subbing news and features on both print and digital platforms
• Strong understanding of compliance and regulatory issues
• Ability to juggle deadlines and tasks
• Capable of working to tight deadlines including rolling deadlines on digital platforms
• Competence in InDesign
• Keen eye for detail
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
  
  

• At least two years experience subbing on a daily or weekly news title
• Proven track record subbing news and features on both print and digital platforms including to rolling deadlines
• Experience of working collaboratively with other teams
• Strong understanding of compliance and regulatory issues
• Solid knowledge of the Editors Code of Practice and current media law

• 25 days annual leave per year (for full time employees)
• 1 birthday day per year
• Private medical scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life assurance currently 6 x salary
• Generous employer pension contributions
• Group income protection scheme
• Plus all the perks of working for a fun media company!

MISSION STATEMENT

To influence and inspire with relevant exclusive and entertaining content in a positive celebratory and kind environment via stringent editorial integrity.

History of Hello

HELLO! is a market-leading lifestyle and celebrity publication known for its positive and celebratory reporting and unrivalled showbiz exclusives which have been entertaining audiences since 1988.

Over the years its digital brand has transformed from a small legacy publishing site into an influential global website.

HELLO! is part of the HOLA group who launched HOLA! magazine in Barcelona in 1944. The husband and wife team of Antonio Sánchez Gómez and Mercedes Junco Calderón launched the publication with the aim of adding some sparkle to their readers lives. Always positiveHOLA! and HELLO! continue to remain true to the guiding principles of a new type of journalism - always positive highly visual and celebratory allowing readers a moment of escape into the worlds of the rich and famous to inspire brighten and entertain.

With offices in London New York and Toronto HELLO! Magazine is now a 24-hour global website with unique user experiences in our three main audience territories of the UK US and Canada.

Our readership is more global than that however with audiences also visiting the site from Australia India Europe and all other parts of the world.