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Daily Star Online, TV Reporter

Employer
Reach plc
Location
Canary Wharf, London
Salary
Competitive + company benefits
Closing date
23 Jul 2019

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Job Details

Daily Star Online is looking for a dynamic TV Reporter to join our team.

If you're passionate about what's on the box and enjoy everything from Love Island to Line of Duty, this could be your dream job.

We're on the hunt for someone who knows their mainstream telly, British and US, inside out. Soaps, Netflix, daytime shows - you'll be an unashamed telly addict.

Most importantly, though, you'll have a keen eye for a story and a knack for turning a throwaway line uttered on Good Morning Britain into a searchable, shareable story with a clickable headline.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a trained digital journalist, with knowledge of SEO and social media, to join a fast-paced online newsroom.

You'll be expected to lead by example, sourcing the best stories and unearthing the strongest lines.

As part of your development, you'll also be expected to provide TV newsdesk from time to time, subbing others' copy and setting the news agenda.

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, OK! & New! Magazines 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 620 million newspapers, with 5.8 million readers of one of our brands each month. Our network of over 70 websites provide 24/7 coverage of news, sport and showbiz stories, with 8.1 billion page views per year.

We average 21.5 million mobile visitors - that's 60% of the entire mobile market. Each month we attract over 32 million unique visitors. That's more than our competitors. You will help us further increase our digital audience into 2019.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Cover live TV, spotting and reporting the most interesting lines, quickly and with finesse
  • Monitor Twitter for viewer reaction, picking out the best lines and turning them into intriguing headlines
  • Generate and cover day-to-day TV news, ensuring the focus is always on the most searchable and shareable stories
  • Show an understanding of the website's key shows and ensure a steady flow of content around these
  • Use your PR contacts to pull in exclusive interviews and news stories that will deliver a richness of content to the site
  • Push content via Facebook and Twitter, in accordance with the digital social media policy
  • Optimise stories in accordance with the digital SEO strategy
  • React quickly to breaking news stories
  • Wherever possible, identify unique headlines and angles for stories covered elsewhere to make content more clickable
  • Write and edit in accordance with digital house style
  • Read competitor sites and form a thorough knowledge of competitors


The Ideal Candidate:

  • Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines, multitask, forward plan and develop relationships with PRs
  • Experienced digital journalist with familiarity with CMS and Google Analytics
  • Professional understanding of journalism law
  • Attention to detail and developments in the TV/showbiz world
  • Available to work shifts based on 5 days out of 7 between 7am-3pm/ 3pm-11pm


Package Description

In addition to competitive salaries, 25 days holiday 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.

Reach plc believe diversity brings benefits for our customers, our business and our people. This is why we are committed to being an inclusive employer and encourage applications from all suitable applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation.

We will be reviewing applications as they are received so please don't delay in submitting your application - click 'APPLY' now.

Company

As one of the UK’s largest multimedia companies our award-winning portfolio includes five national newspapers, over 100 regional newspapers and a range of websites and digital products. But it’s our people who make Reach plc what it is.

Company info
Website
Telephone
020 7293 3000
Location
One Canada Square
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5AP
GB

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