Online Royal Correspondent (Maternity Cover)
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Job Summary
Your mission
The successful candidate will play a pivotal part of our editorial team responsible for generating and delivering exclusive and high-quality royal content across our digital platforms.
Location:London (Hybrid) Tuesday Wednesday & Thursday in the London Office Monday & Friday WFH
Contract:Fixed-term cover
How to Apply
Please send your CV a cover letter outlining your suitability for the role and three examples of your most impactful royal coverage.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the royal live blog with live news feeds.
- Generate and write compelling royal content including breaking news pieces exclusive stories in-depth event features and original interviews that drive significant traffic and engagement.
- Nurture and develop a robust network of royal contacts including experts palace aides and PR professionals to secure scoops.
- Attend relevant royal engagements and events as required being first on the scene to secure the next major royal scoop often under tight deadlines.
- Stay meticulously up-to-date with the latest royal news and affairs writing in various styles and tones to suit different audiences and platforms from snappy instant articles to comprehensive in-depth features.
- Collaborate closely with section editors and the wider digital team to develop content strategies that significantly grow and engage our core audience.
Your profile
- Proven experience as a reporter or correspondent covering high-profile figures ideally the British Royal Family within a fast-paced news environment.
- Exceptional news-gathering skills and a strong track record of securing exclusive stories.
Experience
- Experience gathering statistics and producing data-driven content.
- Impeccable writing and editorial skills with the ability to turn around clean engaging copy quickly.
- Experience in covering breaking royal news is a plus
Qualifications
- Being comfortable appearing on camera for social media and Substack
- A comprehensive understanding of media law and the IPSO Editors Code of Practice.
- A resilient and flexible approach to working hours including a willingness to work evenings and weekends on a rota basis as dictated by the 24/7 nature of royal news.
Benefits
- 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 of the perks of working for a fun media company!
How to Apply
Please send your CV a cover letter outlining your suitability for the role and three examples of your most impactful royal coverage.
About us
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.
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- Research Experience
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- Underwriting
- Employment & Labor Law
- Medicare
- Word Processing
About 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 c ... View more
