Senior news reporter – The Sun (London)
The Sun is the biggest news brand in the UK, publishing hundreds of stories a day and reaching over 170m unique users digitally every month. Its exclusives set the news agenda and its campaigns have changed the lives of many. Delivering news, entertainment, and sports coverage to millions of readers every day. With a rich history spanning decades, we are dedicated to providing accurate, insightful, and engaging content across print and digital platforms.
The Team: The Sun is the biggest news brand in the UK – and still growing – with a talented, diverse team who publish the best coverage of news, sport, lifestyle and showbiz in print and digital.
The Sun is looking to bring in first class news reporters to join Fleet Street’s most dynamic operation.
Purpose of role: To build the audience of The Sun by producing outstanding, engaging stories for both print and online. To bring in exclusives and original story ideas, as well as developing breaking stories.
Day to day you will:
- Work with the newsdesk and freelance reporters to anchor major stories
- Mentor and help train more junior reporters
- Cover breaking news stories and generate agenda-leading exclusives
- Turn around copy and content quickly and accurately; mindful of IPSO and legal issues
- Identify news stories which will work online and in print and develop them well
- Work as part of a team and be able to contribute across a range of subjects
- Pitch and produce exclusive stories and work up original ideas and features
- Have an instinct for how to ‘sell’ a digital story to get maximum impact on The Sun’s platforms and also on social media
- Be able to write in a concise and entertaining way in keeping with Sun style but free from cliche
- Understand how to recirculate readers within The Sun and keep them engaged with our content
- Work with video desk and picture desk to maximum effect
- Interview people in a range of different circumstances
- Live reporting and ability to work under pressure covering breaking news
- Keep newsdesk informed on changes that arise as stories develop
What we’re looking for from you:
- Excellent writing skills with the ability to deliver vibrant, clean copy to very tight deadlines
- More than three years of reporting experience in a newsroom and ability to keep calm under pressure
- Excellent, fast writing and basic subbing skills
- Passion for all things news
- Flexible attitude to working hours across seven days
- An understanding of The Sun brand, both print and digital
- Thorough knowledge of the IPSO Code of Conduct, media law and ethical considerations
- Knowledge of social media, SEO and online publishing
- Positive can-do attitude and good team player
We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News
Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities – attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include:
- Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
- Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
- Private medical insurance including coverage for pe-existing conditions
- Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
- ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
- Access to exclusive events Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
- Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
- A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on careers@news.co.uk.
