Job Introduction

One of the fastest-growing national newspaper websites in the UK is seeking a talented journalist to oversee coverage of the latest breaking news overnight.

The successful candidate will be full of ideas and be ahead of the curve in terms of forward-planning and generating unique angles in a fast-paced online newsroom.

They will carry out reporting and will be expected to work from 11pm-7am. This is a fantastic opportunity for a trained digital journalist looking to take the next step in his/her career.

Experience on the nationals, at a busy regional or agency and/or in a digital news environment is highly desirable, as is knowledge of SEO and social media.

This is an exciting chance to land a permanent staff job in our Canary Wharf HQ and could lead to a position in our daytime team.

We are Reach because it's what we do.

Every day our newsbrands - national and regional, in print and online - reach millions of people up and down the country. We are the UK's largest news publisher, with influential national newsbrands such as the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Sunday People, Daily Record, and more than 100 distinguished regional titles.

Our brands have a long heritage of being trusted sources of news and information, with our editorial conviction and high standards of journalism providing audiences with timely information and opinion across multiple platforms.

Last year we sold 540 million newspapers, and our network of over 70 websites provide 24/7 coverage of news, sport and showbiz stories, viewed by 110m unique browsers every month.

Key Responsibilities

• To focus on breaking news content on a day-to-day basis in the UK and overseas, ensuring that the focus is always on the site's most-searchable stories.
• To show an understanding of the websites' key content and ensure a steady flow of this content.
• To write news and analysis for the website and cover live events and use your PR and news contacts to pull in exclusive interviews and news stories that will deliver a richness of content to the site.
• To push content via Facebook, Google+ and Twitter, in accordance with the digital social media policy.
• To optimise stories in accordance with the digital SEO strategy.
• To stay on top of all developments in the news and cover those on the site.
• To be able to react quickly to breaking news stories.
• To, wherever possible, identify unique headlines and angles for stories covered elsewhere to make content more searchable.
• To keep a close eye on content and, where necessary, correct typos and factual errors and flag possible legal concerns.
• To demonstrate an understanding of media law.
• To write and edit in accordance with digital house style.
• To manage and foster relationships, where needed, to generate blogs and columns.
• To read all the major global sites and form a thorough knowledge of competitors.
• To constantly monitor social media for breaking stories and reaction.

The Ideal Candidate

• At least three years' experience in journalism and ideally some editing experience.
• Proven track record in breaking exclusives, building strong contacts and copy editing.
• Outstanding editing, writing and subbing skills.
• Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines, multitask, forward plan and have a good eye for content that works best online.
• Experienced digital journalist with familiarity with CMS, Photoshop, Google Analytics.
• Understanding of different types of web traffic, and how to increase organic traffic and a strong news sense.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to nurture and develop writing talent, grammatical and organisational skills.
• Professional understanding of journalism law.
• Understanding of the online market and the expectations of the reader.
• Attention to detail.
• Must be prepared to work overnight shifts.

Package Description

In addition to competitive salaries, 25 days holiday, bonus structures (if applicable) and a contributory pension scheme, Reach plc have a wealth of flexible benefits on offer.

These include holiday purchase up to ten days per year, childcare vouchers, cycle scheme, a technology scheme in conjunction with Curry's PC World, car scheme, health cash plan, employee loans and lots of high street discounts!

Our business is fully committed to health and wellbeing in the workplace with an employee assistance programme and trained mental health first aiders across the business.

We are committed to equal opportunity for all. We may collect relevant data for monitoring as part of our candidate registration process. We will be reviewing applications as they are received so please don't delay in submitting your application.

Click 'Apply' now. Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the application deadline/closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.