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Electronics Weekly, Senior Reporter

Employer
Metropolis Business Media
Location
Croydon
Salary
£DoE
Closing date
14 Apr 2019

Job Details

Electronics Weekly

Launched in 1960, Electronics Weekly is the UK weekly print publication for electronics professionals.

Electronicsweekly.com is the market leading website for the UK electronics industry with the most highly respected editorial team covering all the latest industry news, developments, blogs and technologies. Over the last 20 years, electronicsweekly.com has grown a large international following with a substantial number of users in key countries outside the UK

The Role

Electronics Weekly is now looking for a reporter / senior reporter to work in its new office in Croydon.

Ideally the candidate will have a background in business journalism and have a strong interest in electronics, but we are also open to receiving recent graduates with an electronics degree who would like to pursue a career in publishing with the UK’s leading business-to-business electronics title in its field.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Be a dynamic self-starter, a team player
  • Possess a strong work ethic
  • Have a good understanding of digital media and its impact on the printed medium
  • As well as the confidence to interview and build contacts among senior electronics industry figures
  • Ability to travel internationally


Experience:

  • Reporting to the Group Editor, your main role will be to gather information and write news and analyses for online and print


Skills & Competencies:

  • Researching stories from a variety of technologies, including the field of test, semiconductors, hardware and software, as well as research;
  • Generating ideas for stories;
  • Writing news and analyses in the house style;
  • Ensuring work is well written, accurate and submitted to deadline;
  • Conducting interviews, both in person or over the phone;
  • Building up contacts;
  • Attending electronics industry seminars, conferences and exhibitions and reporting your findings;
  • Sourcing images to accompany written pieces;
  • Meeting with colleagues to help plan the content and character of our online environment and print magazine;
  • Keeping up-to-date with electronics industry developments;
  • Proofing pages before going to print;
  • Opportunity to create video content for the websites.

 

Apply:

Please email your CV and Cover Letter by completing the application form below.

We’re committed to Emap being a happy and healthy place to work, so we offer fantastic benefits and perks to our employees. They include 25 days of holiday per year (with the option to buy or sell), health plan and life insurance cover, Cycle 2 Work scheme, discounted gym memberships, retail discount vouchers and much more!

EMAP is a member of the Metropolis Group.

Metropolis Group respects the privacy of every person for whom we have personal data. We comply with data protection legislation such as the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation which regulates the processing of data and ensures that your data is processed fairly and lawfully, is kept secure and only that data necessary for any processing is kept. You can see our privacy policy here.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, age, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.

Company

Metropolis is a fast growing group with 500 employees in London, Dublin, Bolton, Chester and New York working in business & consumer media, and discount programmes.

We work to clearly defined values. We are committed to diversity and opposed to discrimination, and all job applicants will be considered solely on their ability to do the job regardless of gender, disability, race, orientation or age. If you’re driven by work that invites creativity and collaboration, apply to join us now.

Company info
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Location
6th Floor
Davis House
2 Robert Street
Croydon
CR0 1QQ
GB

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