The Telegraph - Senior Foreign Correspondent
- Employer
- The Telegraph
- Location
- London (Central)
- Salary
- Competitive + excellent benefits
- Closing date
- 2 Feb 2025
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- Industry
- Journalist
- Job Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Sector
- Nationals, Digital, International, News
- Discipline
- Reporting, Writer, Correspondent, Reporter
Job Details
The Senior Foreign Correspondent is an experienced journalist who can cover major global news stories in a high pressure environment.
They are an integral part of covering complex stories on the ground and also helping readers understand global news events through analysis and reflective features.
The correspondent’s role will include travel at short notice, at times to report from hostile environments.
Key responsibilities
- Responsible for helping provide The Telegraph's coverage of major global news.
- Ability to react and adapt to the demands of a 24/7 online news environment.
- Report and write from a number of countries around the world.
- Provide longer form dispatches, features and analysis on key topics.
- Interest in digital storytelling and how to grow audiences online.
- Break ground by developing global exclusives
Key skills
ESSENTIAL
- Significant journalistic experience of writing for a newspaper or website.
- Proven ability in filing clean copy to strict deadlines.
- Experience reporting from hostile environments.
- Deep understanding of world affairs and diplomacy.
DESIRABLE
- Languages.
- Experience reporting on defence issues.
- Comfortable with audio and broadcast journalism duties.
Our benefits
The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.
Training and development
With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.
Our commitment to inclusion
At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.
To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.
Company
The Telegraph is an award-winning, multimedia news brand synonymous with quality, credibility and authority for more than 160 years.
We are renowned for the analysis, perspective, opinion and insight our journalism provides to a discerning audience. Every day the content we create sets the news agenda, sparking debate and provoking comment.
Our vision, with quality journalism at the heart, is to pioneer new ways to serve 10 million registered users and 1 million subscribers. We’ll achieve this with a constant focus on our journalism, and by using the data and understanding we have of The Telegraph’s audience to successfully grow our revenue streams from subscriptions to advertising, travel, events, and financial services.
We want to capture diversity of thought through our people, create inclusive working environments that allow everyone to be their authentic selves at work while creating a sense of belonging to ensure we have the highest performing teams.
The Telegraph is proud to be a WORK180 endorsed employer for women in 2021.
For more information on our purpose, beliefs and people values, please visit our website. Visit our careers website to learn more about our people and jobs.
- Website
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 020 7931 2000
- Location
-
111 Buckingham Palace Road
London
London
SW1W 0DT
GB
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