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The London Standard, Digital Editor

Employer
The London Standard
Location
London-Hybrid
Salary
£Competitive
Closing date
22 Nov 2024
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Industry
Journalist
Job Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Sector
Nationals, Online, Digital
Discipline
Digital Editor


The Standard is looking to appoint a Digital Editor to help lead our digital transformation.

This is a new role helping lead our digital-first newsroom. Working alongside the Editor-in-Chief, you will help implement an evolving strategy for our editorial operations with a digital-focused newsroom.

Entrepreneurial and operationally accomplished, you have the skills to both direct day-to-day coverage across News, Sport and our newly formed Life hub, as well as drive deeper change across the business to embed digital ways of working.

You will be expected to be fluent in data and understand how audiences’ behaviours are changing and how The Standard can adapt to the broader ecosystem. You will be responsible for increasing both the scale of The Standard’s reach and the depth of engagement with our digital products.

You will also be excellent at commercial collaboration, with a proven track record of optimising output to create a diversified, sustainable content businesses, generating revenues from both premium and audience-based revenue, as well as through commerce, reader revenue and other disciplines.

As an inspiring leader, you will be able to build and lead high-performing teams, fostering innovation and growth. You will know how to create a healthy, equitable, and inclusive culture and inspire colleagues to be and see themselves as among the best journalists in the world.

Our values

Trust
Fair. Honest. Accurate. From our reporting to how we conduct our relationships, trust is in our DNA. 

Diversity
We are London – the most diverse city in the world. Our commitment is to represent our city with a team and through content that reflects our readers. 

Innovation
Ideas are our currency. In a city that is always evolving we embrace and drive change across all our platforms, within our team and as a business. 

Collaboration
We’re in this together – as colleagues, stakeholders, and citizens of our great capital. Teamwork is key to our success – inside and outside of the building. 

Resilience 
Through every one of history’s landmark moments The Standard has responded and delivered. We’re proud to be a news brand with a powerful legacy – and a focus on the future. 

Diversity Statement: our commitment to diversity and inclusion

At The Standard our ambition is to represent our city with a team and through content that reflects our audience. We want to attract those voices previously underrepresented in media, offering a rewarding career and opportunities for all.

Teamwork is key to our success. We want all our people to feel like they belong and that their voices matter.

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