Evening Standard, Weekend News Editor

About us:

ESI Media is an innovative multichannel media business, with a cross-platform reach of 23.1m. Our brands include the London Evening Standard, The Independent and London Live. We have offices based in the UK and US.

The Evening Standard is an iconic London title that sets the agenda in politics and business, as well as being first with lifestyle content, major news and sports stories, in print and online. Our future focus is on growing audiences and revenue with a digital first approach.

The team: Newsdesk

The Newsdesk is at the heart of the Evening Standard with a long-standing reputation for breaking exclusive, agenda-setting stories that are followed by national newspapers, broadcasters and media around the world.

As a fully-integrated, digital first operation, the Newsdesk ensures that the Standard is first with breaking news across all platforms.

Role purpose: 

A News Editor to lead the Evening Standard’s website and news operation each weekend to produce exclusive, digital first content across all platforms, including the following days’ print publications. The role will cover Saturday and Sunday shifts and two days during the week.

About you:

You have significant Newsdesk experience and are capable of working across multiple platforms with a team of reporters to produce exclusive stories, comprehensive coverage, pictures and video and cover breaking news around the clock. 

You will be able to outline the news agenda to senior editors in daily meetings and respond quickly and competently to their instructions.

Skills and Experience:

• Newsdesk experience and capable of working with a team of reporters to help produce digital first exclusive content and cover breaking news across multiple platforms.
• Experience working in a dynamic and fast-moving newsroom, a quick, accurate and confident writer.
• A good communicator able to respond to direction and pass instructions on accurately to the reporting team.
• Significant SEO and social skills and experience.
• A solid understanding of media law and the Editors’ Code of Practice to help ensure all content is legally safe and compliant with expected standards.
• A good knowledge of current affairs including politics, crime, business, arts, celebrity news, education, health, environment, technology, foreign news and Royal stories. 
• Significant experience with CMS systems.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

• Helping to drive, with direction from senior executives, a team of reporters to produce and source digital first stories, pictures, video and audio content across all platforms, plus oversee any content required for the print edition.
• Ensuring the Evening Standard continues to be first with breaking news.
• Helping to make sure content is delivered in a timely manner, legally safe and compliant form.
• Helping to generate and deliver ideas for special projects, investigations, campaigns and in-depth pieces. 
• Communicating accurately instructions from senior editors to the News team and ensuring these are delivered in full.
• Working the necessary hours the digital operation throughout the weekend. 
• Have an appreciation of other sections in addition to news to produce content as required.
• Curate the website’s home and section pages.
• Oversee the output of the on-duty social team.
• You will be accountable to the Executive Editor/Head of News and other senior executives.

Expected behaviours: 

1. Continuous Improvement – Works in a smart, flexible and focussed way, is open to change and suggests ideas for improvements to the way things are done. 
2. Collaboration – Builds and maintains positive and supportive working relationships with colleagues.  Helps to create an inclusive and professional work environment.
3. Building Capability – Keeps own knowledge and skill set current and evolving and looks for ways to continue learning to support the achievement of business objectives.
4. Quality Service – Delivers high quality and efficient service and takes account of the diverse customer needs and requirements when looking at ways to improve service quality. 
5. Responsive Delivery - Works to agreed business goals and objectives and deals with challenges in a constructive and responsive way. Takes personal responsibility for quality of outputs.

Please click 'APPLY NOW' and send an up to date CV along with a full covering letter with salary expectations.

Due to the high volume of applications we will only be contacting candidates who have been shortlisted and progressed through to the next stage.

ESI Media is an equal opportunities employer, if you require any reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please do not hesitate to advise us accordingly.

All of our employees are entitled to benefits including great pension, private healthcare and life insurance schemes. We also offer cycle to work and season ticket loan initiatives to make our employees’ journeys to work easier. We want our employees to enjoy working for us and we invest in training and development to support and develop rewarding careers.