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Digital Reporter, TTG Media

Employer
TTG Media Limited
Location
Southwark, London - and working from home
Salary
Up to £28k + benefits
Closing date
19 Apr 2021

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Industry
Journalist
Job Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Sector
Online, Trade Publication, Travel / Tourism
Discipline
Reporter

Job Details

TTG Media is seeking a Digital Reporter to join a fast moving, fearless independent media business with an award-winning reputation in the travel industry, and throughout B2B media.

Reporting into the News Editor, the individual will be joining a dynamic news team, which has led the way in trade media reporting of the Covid crisis and travel over the past 13 months.

Since forming to take over the Travel Trade Gazette in 2013, TTG Media has gone from strength to strength, growing across online, print and with outstanding events including the TTG Top 50 Travel Agencies and the TTG Diversity & Inclusion in Travel conference.

During the Covid crisis TTG has also taken a leading role in online events in travel and tourism, running more than 70 events via our online platform InEvent, and also launching a new paid-for membership programme, TTG+, offering unique benefits to its members.

In 2019 TTG Media evolved to take on a whole new purpose and reason for being, establishing a new mission to promote a ‘Smarter, Better, Fairer’ travel industry and a new look to the business, leading TTG to be named Campaign magazine’s Business Media Brand of the Year in 2020, and the PPA’s Independent Publishing Company of the Year in 2019.

In what we believe to be the most stimulating business sector in the UK today – and among a mutually supportive, driven and diverse team – the Digital Reporter role represents genuine opportunity for career growth and advancement, as so many others who have developed with TTG Media will attest.

Whilst the whole team is working from home at the moment, we look forward to at least a partial return to office working in central London later this year.

We want to see your application!

The role:

You'll primarily be responsible for writing, editing and publishing digital news content on ttgmedia.com, ensuring our written content is produced in a timely way, and to the highest possible standards.

This will include generating, writing and uploading breaking news and the chance to work across a variety of content in a fast-paced team.

Key responsibilities

  • Writing copy that is accurate and brilliantly presented, writing sharp, digital-friendly headlines and making use of the best pictures, video and other multimedia assets.
  • May be asked to manage digital channels including social media feeds
  • Liaising with the Deputy News Editor and News Editor to ensure priorities are met
  • Using the wires and nationals to source travel trade relevant stories  
  • Building up PR contacts to assimilate on-diary stories, and working with the wider news team to secure off-diary stories  

Essential skills required for the role

  • Able to respond well under pressure and adhere to strict deadlines
  • Proficient in using a modern CMS
  • Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point
  • Minimum 12 months experience in a news-writing role
  • An understanding of the travel industry is not essential, but would be extremely useful
  • Experience of writing and sub-editing stories on digital platforms
  • Experience of working in news, ideally within business or local/national news
  • Thorough understanding of social media and SEO
  • Strong news sense and judgment
  • Digital publishing skills needed
  • Enthusiasm, imagination and digital ideas are essential
  • Strong news sense and judgment – including understanding of media law
  • Experience using website and social media analytics to adapt digital content strategy accordingly

Qualities needed for culture fit

  • Strong attention to detail
  • Creative thinker
  • Resilient and focused
  • Keen multi-tasker
  • Excellent time management

TTG Media benefits

  • Vitality health insurance
  • Perkbox benefits
  • Four times salary life insurance
  • Being part of one of the most widely respected and mutually supportive teams in media!

Closing date for applications: Monday April 19th 2021

Please apply with covering letter and CV to TTG Editor Sophie Griffiths  and TTG News Editor Jennifer Morris.

Company

TTG was established as Travel Trade Gazette in 1953, as the world’s very first weekly travel trade newspaper.

Today, TTG Media continues to deliver authoritative news and educational features in a weekly magazine in the UK & Ireland, and also offers a range of face-to-face training events, a news-led website, a community for luxury travel professionals, an annual travel awards, bespoke marketing campaigns, jobs, and much much more.

TTG also publishes ttgluxury, a quarterly publication for the luxury travel sector, and bespoke supplements. For the past four years TTG has also produced the WTM show dailies, for London’s World Travel Market, magazines that are distributed on each day of WTM to over 50,000 attendees.

In the year of its 60th anniversary (2013), former editor Daniel Pearce completed a management buy-out from parent company UBM Plc, setting up TTG Media Limited.

Company info
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Location
Friars House
160 Blackfriars Road
London
SE1 8EZ
United Kingdom

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