Location: DMGT HQ - High Street Kensington, London
About the Role
The i Paper is seeking a News Editor to help lead its team of high impact reporters, responsible for major exclusives, series and multi-platform investigations. This is a rare and exciting opportunity to create original journalism and lead the growth of The I Paper’s digital storytelling, including through video.
The successful candidate must have proven experience of managing experienced reporters and a demonstrable ability to land challenging stories and investigations with impact.
Main Responsibilities
- To help lead and inspire our award-winning team of reporters, ensuring their output is having maximum digital impact
- To help develop new formats and methods of digital storytelling, finding new audiences where they are
- To expand our visual storytelling, enhancing our social video output across our content
- To help develop new ways to drive engagement with our journalism, and take the lead in embedding best practice
- To manage a mix of reactive exclusive chases on the agenda, news features and long term investigations
- To take responsibility for managing and executing complex and challenging stories, all the way from idea or tip to publication
- To present high impact stories and creative ideas to senior editors in conference
- To provide constructive feedback to reporters, helping them prioritise projects which will have maximum digital impact
- To work towards team benchmarks for success, ensuring the operation is meeting its digital subscription goals
Person Specification
- Senior experience on the newsdesk of a national news publisher or broadcaster
- Excellent people-management skills, and a proven ability to get the best out of experienced journalists
- Experience of leading a team, and a desire to be leading from the front in a busy and demanding newsroom
- An ability to write and edit news and features quickly and to deadline
- Incisive analytical skills and the ability to approach the news agenda in a creative and original manner
- An ambition to take on more responsibility and progress your career towards executive leadership
- Experience in digital publishing, and a willingness to learn and embrace new methods of storytelling
- A thorough understanding of media law and the Ipso guidelines
- A commitment to i's editorial standards of impartial and incisive coverage
About Us
The i Paper is Britain's youngest national news publisher – and one of the most trusted. The i Paper has a unique mission: publishing non-partisan reporting and intelligent opinion. With a strong digital subscriber audience and a healthy print circulation, The i Paper has also grown digital reach to 11m users a month. Growing in influence, The i Paper is a recent winner of Daily Newspaper of the Year (London Press Club) and News Website of the Year (Online Media Awards). We pride ourselves on having a dynamic, collegiate work environment that celebrates creativity, innovation and success.
Our Commitment
We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.
We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.
