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Insider is one of the UK’s fastest growing B2B multi-media companies with award winning magazines and market leading business events and we are expanding our portfolio of digital news/information products and services. 
We are looking for a Digital Staff Writer to produce creative and engaging regional email news bulletins and contribute rolling business news to the Insider Media web hub.

The successful candidate will

• Be an experienced journalist with good knowledge of b2b reporting. 

• Have excellent writing skills and the ability to liaise with business leaders comfortably.

• Have a good nose for business news and be capable of knowing how and where to dig out new angles, leading to exclusive stories.

• Understand what busy business executives need from their news services

• Leverage content from other Insider platforms, such as the monthly magazines and the range of Insider events

• Deliver fresh and engaging news but also integrate SEO keywords and meta data content

Context

Digital is the fastest growth operation within Insider Media and has enormous potential. The company strategy is to develop In Print, In Person and On Line. These are done through regional centres in Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Birmingham, Bristol and Cardiff. Insider is expanding into other regions, but the digital team is based in our head office in Manchester.

Insider as a media brand produces monthly magazines read by more than 100,000 business executives and owners, and will stage 100 events this year.  Insider’s online newsletter subscriber base exceeded 110,000 across the UK and continues to grow in all ten regions.

Organisation

The Digital Staff Writer will work with the Digital News Editor and the Digital Editor and will liaise with the regional magazine editorial teams for news and comment.

Skills, abilities & experience

An instinctive nose for news

Experience of a digital news environment

An active interest in internet news, business and emerging social media platforms.

A passion for new technology and a readiness to embrace the fast pace of internet news and new web applications.

The ability to communicate effectively with all members of the Insider team from editorial, sales, circulation and senior management.

Remuneration

Insider Media will offer the right applicant a very attractive remuneration package based on skill, experience and potential.  In additional Insider provides all staff with a Personal Development Plan which is designed to enable individuals to achieve their personal goals and ambitions for career development.  Insider has a strong track record of promoting from within the business which continues to grow and expand despite the current economic climate.

How to Apply

Please send a full CV to wesley.charnock@newsco.com

Previous applicants for editorial posts at Insider should not apply.

Date posted: 07/02/13 00:00 Closing date: 07/03/13
Salary: DoE Location: Manchester, All
Categories: specialist writers |

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SNL Financial, a premier sector-focused news and information provider, is looking for a top-notch Senior Reporter with experience in the metals and mining industry.

The Senior Reporter will play a crucial role in helping to establish and develop SNL's news coverage in the global metals and mining space. Working with colleagues in Asia, North America and Europe, the Senior Reporter will aim to produce value-added, proprietary content, while also actively contributing to the planning of day-to-day coverage and the mentorship of junior reporters. The Senior Reporter also provides on-the-ground coverage of shareholder meetings, conferences and other significant events.

SNL's news reaches an influential readership that includes analysts, regulators and major players at leading global investment banks. The firm's massive database, which now includes data from the recently acquired Metals Economics Group, offers ample opportunities to enhance and drive that reporting.

Successful candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in journalism or business journalism, combined with at least 3-5 years of professional experience. Reporting experience in the metals and mining industry is highly preferred. SNL offers a unique salary potential — a competitive base salary and performance-based bonuses — and a great, casual working environment.

How to apply:

All applicants must have eligibility to live and work in Australia

Please apply to Mark Roberts at mroberts@snl.com

Date posted: 07/02/13 00:00 Closing date: 07/03/13
Salary: Competitive Location: Australia, Rest of World
Categories: broadcast journalists | news |

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One of the UK's leading digital publishers, Future, Publishing, is looking for a Multimedia Production Assistant to work within our Games Video Studio.

The Games Video Studio creates video content for a wide variety of platforms and clients, and is made up of a great team of dedicated and enthusiastic individuals from whom you can learn.

The role will involve producing and working to strict weekly production schedules, capturing videogame footage, editing videogame footage and shoot-based footage with Final Cut Pro. You will convert footage for use across different media so knowledge of formats / video codecs is required, liaise with external partners and upload finished videos to CMS. The creation of bespoke video metadata and provision of support to the team is also part of the job.

To be successful in this role, you'll need to be an experienced user of Final Cut Pro or other professional video editing software and a creative video professional with a demonstrable skill set and varied portfolio of work. You will have experienced video capturing, editing and post production processes with good knowledge of video formats, codecs and converting from one format to another. A very keen interest in videogames as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills are also required.

If you are interested in this opportunity please upload your CV and covering letter online, focusing on why you are the right person for the job. You will also need to indicate what salary range you would ideally be looking for. In addition please supply links to examples of work you have been involved with.

Date posted: 05/02/13 14:51 Closing date: 05/03/13
Salary: competitive Location: Bath, England, All
Categories: production and sub-editors |

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Captive Review, a sector leading insurance magazine, is looking for a new editor. 

Overseeing all of the brand’s content, the candidate will be an experienced B2B journalist able to develop the brand’s hard copy and digital content, as well as driving content for the brand’s growing number of events.

The ideal candidate must be able to demonstrate an ability to develop a brand’s various products, and would ideally have experience writing about insurance.

The right candidate must be able to:

• Oversee the brand’s news output and feature articles
• Commission tightly briefed articles to industry figures
• Oversee region or sector-specific reports
• Manage the brand’s digital presence
• Manage the magazine’s reporter and provide guidance to the company’s staff writers
• Oversee event content and speaker recruitment
• Liaise internally with commercial team to ensure alignment of editorial and commercial goals
• Liaise with marketing team to help promotion of brand
• Manage the brand’s data products, ensuring regular updates of industry information

How to apply:
Please send your CV, and a brief covering letter explaining your suitability for the role to Gwyn Roberts at g.roberts@pageantmedia.com. Successful applicants will be contacted and invited for an interview. For more information on award-winning publisher Pageant Media, visit www.pageantmedia.com.

Date posted: 05/02/13 00:00 Closing date: 04/03/13
Salary: DoE Location: London, England
Hours Per Week:37.5
Categories: features | news | section editors | specialist writers |

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Company:
CBS Interactive is the leading global media company informing and connecting the buyers, users and sellers of technology

Job purpose:
ZDNet’s production editor is responsible for the keeping the site alive with the latest news, reviews and other content. The ideal candidate will be able to focus on getting the details right while working under pressure and to tight deadlines. The Production Editor is a team player with more than a passing interest in IT.

Main tasks and responsibilities:
Ensure that all site content is up to date and accurate and presented in the best ways possible to attract the largest possible audience.
This will include:

• Sub-editing a variety of editorial content across the site.
• Checking editorial content with editors and reporters when necessary for accuracy, context, grammar, spellingand facts and maintaining consistency with house style.
• Promoting signature editorial content by ensuring stories are optimised for SEO, in particular so that headlinesare attractive and engaging, and by day-to-day management of ZD’s social tools (Twitter, Facebook, G+ andothers).
• Ensure the site is attractive by keeping the home page and other programmable elements across the site filled with timely and interesting content which is regularly updated
• Ensuring that content is correctly tagged and categorised, according to site structure.
• Building and sending ZD UK newsletters, monitoring their performance and making changes as necessary o Monitoring the performance of the site – reporting bugs and ensuring they are resolved
• Communication with ZDNet’s global production team to ensure production issues are dealt with

Experience and skills:

• Two to three year's sub-editing on a professional publication.
• Familiarity with a range of online environments – blogs and social networks, as well as more formal publications, would be advantageous.
• Experience using content management systems and/or basic XHTML knowledge is desired, but not essential as full training will be provided, but the ability to pick up new skills and adapt old ones is essential.

Competencies for success:

• Attention to detail Composure
• Humour
• Perseverance
• Drive for results
• Time management
• Functional/Technical skill
• Technical learning
• Dealing with ambiguity
• Learning on the fly
• Process management

Date posted: 05/02/13 00:00 Closing date: 05/03/13
Salary: DoE Location: London, England
Categories: editors and management |

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Market-leading international entertainment industry publisher C21Media is looking for a senior reporter to join its London-based editorial team, reporting on the global content business.

You are a news hound; tenacious, balanced, engaged, experienced, ambitious, and want to work on one of the most exciting editorial desks in business publishing.

You should be as comfortable interviewing the head of a Hollywood studio or major television network as researching and writing in-depth features about the fast-changing content landscape.

You are a strong individual talent, but also love being part of a team that works together in a competitive and challenging sector.

C21Media covers the world of international media and entertainment, and our editorial staff work across a range of market-leading web and print and internet TV products. 

We are based in Shoreditch, London, but the position comes with approximately six weeks of international travel to television and digital media festivals around the world, from Cannes to Los Angeles.

This is not a job for the faint hearted, but it rewards with proper salary, six weeks annual holiday, a creative environment, and real prospects to grow with the fast-paced business.

How to apply:

If you think you’ve got what it takes please email jobs@c21media.net with CV and covering letter.

Date posted: 04/02/13 00:00 Closing date: 28/02/13
Salary: £27,000 – £30,000 (depending on experience) Location: London, United Kingdom
Categories: news |

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Travel Security Services is a joint venture between International SOS and Control Risks.  We provide travel security-related information, advice and assistance to business travellers and international assignees on a 24/7 basis. The Deputy Managing News Editor is responsible for driving editorial standards and content across a range of online products and services. 

We are looking for a strong copy editor with at least five years of experience, preferably in news or current affairs output, required to lead team of London-based editors at Travel Security Services.

Essential:

• Proven track record of editing to a high level in a demanding and fast-paced environment;
• good knowledge of global politics/security issues;
• people management experience;
• excellent organisational skills;
• degree educated, ideally in politics/international relations or a related area.
• Must be a driven, committed, team player with a keen eye for detail and an ability to drive standards/communicate effectively with staff working across numerous time-zones.

Desirable:

• IT/multimedia literacy and foreign languages preferred.

 How to apply:

Please apply using the details below.

Date posted: 04/02/13 00:00 Closing date: 22/02/13
Salary: Up to £45,000 dependant on experience Location: London, All / England
Hours Per Week:36.25
Categories: editors and management |

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Are you a talented journalist able to write punchy news stories and in-depth features and analysis in-print and online?

Do you thrive in a busy, friendly editorial office?

Would you like to join an international market -leading title?

Then we should talk.

We’re looking for an experienced journalist with good, all-round skills to fill a position on our clients magazine serving the international conference and events industry. The role requires the ability to commission freelance writers, write news and features, sub-edit, read proofs and work with graphic designers to completion. There is also a significant involvement in their website.

Travel both in the UK and overseas is required and a relaxed attitude towards Greenwich Mean Time is expected! The position will be based in their delightful, spacious offices in West Sussex.

Our client is a small, specialist publisher dedicated to the events industry worldwide. They are rightly proud to say that they achieve tremendous loyalty from their staff through recognition, reward and appreciation of their efforts.

The remuneration package will reflect experience and qualifications and will include qualification for the companies annual profit-share scheme.

It’s a great position for somebody who is happy to work on the move, attend events, file copy from around the world and contribute to the magazine’s digital offerings with blogs and news items. 

The title you’d be working on is a market leader and the most popular magazine in the UK events industry by independent surveys.

The readers are a diverse bunch from both the corporate and not-for-profit sector and their editorial product needs to be carefully-positioned.

Key Tasks

• Achieve editorial deadlines as per the production schedule
• Produce news for the magazine and website, follow up news releases, focus news items on agency and client activities
• To write tight features and commission features from freelances
• Source photography and/or brief graphic designers to source images
• To assist Editor with flat plan layout and ad/edit ratio
• Execute proof reading to ensure highest possible degree of accuracy
• Organise job/travel diary
• Devise ideas for features, surveys and off-diary news items
• Attend monthly staff meetings and issue review meetings
• Attend monthly issue meetings with advertising team to discuss editorial plans
• Attend industry events on behalf of the business
• Update news, blogs, venue update and movers sections on their website with a daily minimum of three news stories
• Use social media to share web news and interact with readership

Responsibilities

•  Devising feature and news ideas
• Writing tight news and feature stories
• Sub-editing peer work
• Commissioning freelancers
• Assisting in page layout and passing proofs to press
• Attending trade shows, seminars and other industry events
• Populating website and social media with content

How to apply:

If you’d like to apply for this varied and exciting role, do send in your details.

We look forward to hearing from you. Do get in touch with Ed either at ed@escapehatchmedia.co.uk, or on 01273 710099

Date posted: 01/02/13 16:50 Closing date: 01/03/13
Salary: £28k + benefits Location: West Sussex, All
Categories: editorial assistants and trainees |

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The Courier is looking for a Features Editor who will be responsible for ensuring entertaining, informative and newsworthy articles are produced within specified timelines and which adhere to the publications house style.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Responsible for co-ordinating and planning all features related work, from new platforms being planned to advertising features
• To oversee  and manage the research of features/sections including leading by example in the writing and rewriting of material
• To commission in-house or freelance writers and photographers
• To identify and work towards revenue-earning opportunities
• To play an active role in the senior management team, taking on projects as requested by the editor
• To liaise with other editorial, commercial and production departments as appropriate

With a relevant degree qualification and a proven track record of Features writing and editing, the successful candidate should also have a detailed knowledge of PCC and the law. You will possess excellent oral/written communication skills with meticulous attention to detail and the ability to prioritise tasks and work to strict deadlines.

How to apply:

If interested in this position, please send a copy of your CV and a cover letter plus current salary details to:

Date posted: 01/02/13 00:00 Closing date: 15/02/13
Salary: DoE Location: Dundee, Scotland
Categories: editors and management | features |

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The Evening Telegraph is looking for a senior reporter who loves getting their name on the front page.  The successful applicant should have a proven track record for delivering self-generated scoops and the ability to produce beautifully-crafted copy that fits the needs of our core and target markets.

Key requirements of the role include:

• The ability to build a network of contacts that generate exclusives on a day-to-day basis
• The ability to work well with the news team, photographers and editors as appropriate
• The ability to produce fair, balanced and accurate copy according to the newspaper’s house style and to strict deadlines
• The ability to produce a wide variety of story ideas and to develop these ideas for print and online.

The successful candidate should have a qualification in journalism from an NCTJ-accredited course that has given them the relevant skills, including 100wpm shorthand. The ideal candidate will also have enthusiasm by the bucket load, the ability to ask tough questions, the personality to develop a strong bank of contacts and a full UK driving licence.

How to apply:

If you are interested in this position, please send a copy of your CV and a cover letter plus current salary details to: 

Date posted: 01/02/13 00:00 Closing date: 15/02/13
Salary: DoE Location: Dundee, Scotland
Categories: news |

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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Archant Lifestyle, part of the UK’s largest independently-owned publishing company. We currently have a vacancy for an Assistant Editor to work on Sussex Life.

We are looking for a keen editorial all-rounder, someone who is willing to get stuck in, to work on and help develop our magazines and special publications. This role will provide support in all areas of editorial, reporting to the Senior Editor and will involve writing features, subbing copy, commissioning work, forward planning, uploading materials to our websites, maintaining our social media output and some photography.

The role requires an expert eye for accuracy and detail and exceptional levels of creativity and organisation. This opportunity would suit an experienced journalist with a good knowledge of the magazine industry. The ideal candidate needs to be well presented, as they will be required to represent our magazines in county, hold the NCTJ Preliminary Certificate in Journalism or equivalent and have a full valid driving licence and own transport. The ability to work flexibly is also required as some extended hours may be needed to fulfil the requirements of the role.

This is a full time position, however a request to job share will be considered. The position will be home based, in county, with one day per week in the Worthing office.

In return we offer a competitive package which includes five weeks of annual leave per annum and a contributory pension and life assurance scheme (after qualifying period). There is a wide range of voluntary benefits including a cycle scheme, childcare vouchers, Westfield Health Scheme and Archant Gold (charity matched funding).

For an application pack please email jenny.mark-bell@archant.co.uk.

Closing date for applications: Friday 15 February 2012.

Date posted: 01/02/13 00:00 Closing date: 15/02/13
Salary: DoE Location: Worthing, West Sussex, England
Hours Per Week:37.5
Categories: editorial assistants and trainees |

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Role
Our award-winning team is looking for a dynamic editor to manage a site and multiple social media platforms on behalf of a major energy drink brand. Passionate about music, you’re a keen advocate of social media (from Reading & Leeds to Lovebox, you’ve tweeted from them all). You’re also able to seamlessly move from music festival to formal meeting, experienced in dealing directly with the client and liaising with external agencies to manage all aspects of the account - with your eye perennially on immediate and long-term profitable growth.


Main responsibilities

Editorial and Client Management

• Oversee the creation of brilliant music (and to a lesser extent, action sports) related content for distribution across web and social media platforms, ensuring that all work is produced to the highest possible standard, is on brand and meets or exceeds the brief.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, attending client-facing meetings as required.
• Maintain a detailed understanding of the business objectives of your client and use this to inform and input to their editorial strategy.
• Ensure all content achieves its potential maximum reach through implementing search engine optimisation best practice and strategic cross-platform promotion.
• Encourage user engagement through growing the already highly engaged communities on the brand’s social platforms.
• Communicate clearly and consistently on performance and potential areas of development.
• Manage the day-to-day operation of the brand, including liaising with artist management companies, external PR agencies, the account management of the brand and legal and editorial sign off.
• Attend cross-agency meetings as required.
• Attend out-of-hours brand events and festivals as required.

Leadership and Management

• Manage the community manager to ensure that the content, monitoring, writing and posting of social media posts are managed effectively.
• Ensure that the community manager has clear objectives and that they have the skills required to meet your client’s objectives.

Innovative Thinking

• Demonstrate thought leadership in all of your interactions internally and with clients.
• Drive innovative ideas specific to functionality and opportunities offered by both current and emerging platforms.

Essential skills required

• 3 year’s editorial experience, at least 2 of which should be with major brands.
• Exceptional creative and writing skills.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering expertise and insights for both brands and music (and to a lesser extent, action sports) communities.
• Substantial experience in the operational management of a major consumer website and/or social media channel, including the planning, conception, commissioning and delivery of digital content.
• Excellent project management skills, with experience of managing budgets, estimates, calendars and schedules.
• Strong client management skills with the proven ability to add value to clients.

How to apply:

Please apply to jobs@thisiszone.com

Date posted: 31/01/13 15:32 Closing date: 28/02/13
Salary: DoE Location: London, All
Categories: editorial assistants and trainees |

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