News Editor

Job Title: News Editor
Location: London

The i Paper is seeking a News Editor to help lead its team of high impact reporters.
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to help drive The i Paper’s news exclusives and revelatory reporting that provides deep insight.

The successful candidate must have proven experience of managing experienced reporters and a demonstrable ability to get challenging stories and investigations over the line.

They must have an innovative mindset to drive new formats and methods of digital storytelling, including through social video, to boost engagement with our journalism.

The job specifications are:
-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

The right candidate must have:
-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

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...

THE I PAPER

The i Paper is the only national newspaper that's never supported a political party and it reaches more than [9.2] million readers each month in print and online.

It is committed to delivering accurate, impartial news and intelligent debate, trusting readers to make up their own minds. It is the winner of 2024 UK Newspaper of the Year and is rapidly growing its digital subscriptions base, recently hitting [70k] total subscriptions.

www.theipaper.com

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.