Assistant Sports Editor (Australia)

Job Title: Assistant Sports Editor (Australia)
Contract: Full-time
Location: Highstreet Kensington London (office-based, with flexibility depending on operational needs)
Hours – You’ll work closely with the Australian night-shift teams and therefore operate during UK daytime hours. The role will include regular weekend work to suit the sporting calendar.

About the Role

Daily Mail Australia is looking for a talented Assistant Sport Editor to work in the department’s senior team and lead night shifts. Suitable candidates will be experienced online reporters – ideally with some management experience - with a track record of working under pressure while coordinating a team during major events. They will be expected to maximise breaking news and spot stories.

The role also involves long-term planning to ensure the best coverage possible around events, providing feedback to team members on their copy and coordinating with the wider Daily Mail Sport team with targets of driving traffic and subscriptions, breaking news, and delivering distinctive, fast-paced sports journalism with a strong understanding of what resonates with Mail readers.

Key to succeeding in this role is an ability to multi-task and work to tight deadlines, while being proactive and chasing down the best stories.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the editing, commissioning, and publishing of Australian sports coverage across the Daily Mail website

• Oversee breaking news, live blogs, match reports, exclusives, and analysis across major Australian sports (including AFL, NRL, cricket, rugby union, football, and Olympic sports)

• Edit copy to Daily Mail standards for accuracy, clarity, speed, tone, and legal compliance

• Generate story ideas with strong audience appeal, informed by analytics, trends, and social media

• Work closely with reporters in Australia and other international bureaux to ensure round-the-clock coverage

• Write headlines, standfirsts, and picture captions optimised for SEO and audience engagement

• Help plan coverage of major sporting events and tournaments, including out-of-hours work when required

Skills & Experience

• Significant experience as a digital sports journalist, ideally with a strong background in Australian sport

• Exceptional news judgement and a proven ability to identify and prioritise high-impact stories

• Fast, confident editor able to work accurately under pressure in a 24/7 newsroom

• Strong writing skills, with the ability to rewrite copy quickly and decisively

• Excellent knowledge of digital publishing, SEO best practice, and audience analytics

• Sound understanding of media law, defamation, and compliance requirements

• Confident communicator and team player

Desirable

• Experience working on a major national or international news brand

• Familiarity with live blogging tools, CMS platforms, and social publishing workflows

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)

• Pension plan and life cover

• Discounts on online shopping, dining cards and vouchers, and access to our Employee Assistance Programme

• Onsite gym, subsidised canteen and onsite nurse and GP clinics

Plus much more...

DAILY MAIL

Daily Mail is an award-winning, multi-platform newsbrand reaching more than 33 million print and online readers each month. The world-famous Mail offers a unique blend of breaking news, agenda-setting exclusives, showbiz, Femail, health, sport and lifestyle stories across print, digital, video, audio and social channels.

Its global newsroom of journalists, formidable story-getting power, and breadth of content formats delivers highly engaging, trusted Daily Mail content to millions of loyal and new audiences. Founded in 1896, The Daily Mail is today the largest news publisher on TikTok, with more than 28 million total followers and more than 45 billion views in the past year. A trailblazing global phenomenon, Daily Mail is part of dmg media.

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