Travel Writer
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12 hours ago
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Job Summary
Your mission
To apply please submit your resume a cover letter detailing your travel writing experience and links to three (3) of your best published travel articles.
Please note that this role requires at least 3 days a week working from our London office (when not travelling of course!) with 2 days from home.
Key Responsibilities
- Content Creation:
- Research write and submit original high-quality travel articles destination guides itineraries reviews (e.g. hotels restaurants tours) and features on deadline.
- Ensure all content is well-researched fact-checked grammatically correct and aligned with our brand voice and editorial standards.
- Optimize content for SEO to maximize reach and visibility.
- Research & Interviews:
- Conduct in-depth research on destinations cultural trends travel logistics and relevant topics.
- Perform interviews with experts locals and travellers to gather unique insights and perspectives.
- Collaboration:
- Work closely with the editorial photography and marketing teams to develop content strategies and visual storytelling.
- Participate in content planning meetings and pitch fresh innovative travel ideas.
- Editing & Revision:
- Revise and edit your own work and occasionally the work of freelance contributors.
- Respond effectively to editorial feedback and implement necessary changes.
- Travel (Optional/Project-Based):
- Undertake press trips or assigned travel to gather first-hand material take original photos/videos and immerse yourself in the destination (this will be determined by specific assignments).
Your profile
- Genuine passion for travel cultural exploration and storytelling.
- A high degree of resourcefulness flexibility and professionalism.
- Comfortable with the use of digital tools and social media for content promotion and research.
Experience
- Proven experience (typically 2 years) as a professional writer journalist or content creator with a strong portfolio showcasing published travel-related work (print or digital).
- Exceptional writing and editing skills with the ability to adapt tone and style for different audiences and formats.
- Strong knowledge of SEO best practices for content creation.
- Excellent research fact-checking and organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently manage multiple deadlines simultaneously and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Familiarity with Content Management Systems (CMS) like WordPress.
- Proven experience (typically 2 years) as a professional writer journalist or content creator with a strong portfolio showcasing published travel-related work (print or digital).
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Journalism English Communications or a related field is preferred.
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!
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.
Key Skills
- Photography
- Proofreading
- Fact check
- Interviewing
- AP Style
- Journalism
- SEO
- Copywriting
- Creative Writing
- Wordpress
- Blogging
- Writing Skills
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
