The Sun, Digital Travel Reporter - 12 Month FTC
- Employer
- The Sun
- Location
- London - Hybrid (3 days p/w in office)
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 15 Sep 2024
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- Industry
- Journalist
- Job Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
- Sector
- Nationals, Online, Travel / Tourism, News
- Discipline
- Reporter
Job Details
Digital Travel Reporter
Hybrid role: Required to come into office 3 times per week
The Sun is the biggest news brand in the UK, publishing hundreds of stories a day and reaching over 170m unique users digitally every month. Its exclusives set the news agenda and its campaigns have changed the lives of many. Delivering news, entertainment, and sports coverage to millions of readers every day. With a rich history spanning decades, we are dedicated to providing accurate, insightful, and engaging content across print and digital platforms.
The Sun has a mass-market audience and aims to appeal to a diverse audience in the UK and beyond.
Your role:
Are you a digital reporter looking to break into Travel?
As a Digital Travel Reporter at The Sun, you will be responsible for creating engaging and informative travel content that inspires our readers to explore the world. You will cover a wide range of topics, from destination guides and travel tips to the latest travel news and trends. Your work will be published across our digital platforms, reaching millions of readers every month.
Day to day you will:
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Cover topical travel stories and generate agenda-leading exclusives
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Turn around copy and content quickly and accurately
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Identify travel stories which will work online and develop them well
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Work as part of a team and be able to contribute across a range of subjects
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Pitch and produce exclusive stories and work up original ideas and features
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Have an instinct for how to 'sell' a digital story to get maximum impact on The Sun's platforms and also on social media
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Be able to write in a concise and entertaining way in keeping with Sun style but free from cliche
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Understand how to recirculate readers within The Sun and keep them engaged with our content
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Produce video content
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Work with video desk and picture desk to maximum effect
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Live reporting and ability to work under pressure covering breaking news
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Keep newsdesk informed on changes that arise as stories develop
What we’re looking for from you:
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No travel experience is necessary, but online journalism is a must.
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This job is a mix of office-based and working from home.
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Excellent writing skills with the ability to deliver vibrant, clean copy to very tight deadlines
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Reporting experience in a newsroom and ability to keep calm under pressure
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Excellent, fast writing and basic subbing skills
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Passion for all things travel
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Flexible attitude to working hours across seven days
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An understanding of The Sun brand, both print and digital
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Thorough knowledge of the IPSO Code of Conduct, media law and ethical considerations
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Knowledge of social media, SEO and online publishing
We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News
Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include:
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Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
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Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
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Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
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Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
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‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
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Access to exclusive events Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
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Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
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A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
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30 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on careers@news.co.uk.
Company
The Sun is Britain's biggest newspaper and an iconic British brand. It is bought by almost 2 million each day, read by 5 million, and reaches millions more online and across social media.
The Sun's journalism sets the news agenda day in, day out. Our content is reproduced daily by rivals who can't match our world class stories and creative ideas.
The Sun therefore attracts the most talented, dedicated and creative people in the industry. The Sun's staff stretch themselves on a daily basis, challenging the status quo to produce the best possible product for our readers.
If you want to work for one of the world's most exciting, challenging and creative media organisations then The Sun and News UK is the place to build your career.
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