News Reporter

Location:

London

Department:

The Sun

Salary Details:

Not Specified

Advertising End Date:

12 Jan 2025

Job Description

News Reporter

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 Sun has a mass-market audience and aims to appeal to a diverse audience in the UK and beyond.

Your 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:

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

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

News UK is 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 and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local 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 multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

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 ourDiversity, 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 have12 employee led networks and groups (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMCi-KiMlL4t=2s) that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

We offer a flexible working arrangement where employees are expected to be in the office a minimum of three days per week. For the remaining two days, there is the option to work remotely if desired.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

Maternityleave up to 18 weeks full basic salary paternityleave up to 2 weeks

Wide range oftrainingavailable, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

Private medical insuranceincluding coverage for pre-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 towellbeing benefitssuch as EAP, physio/massage and counselling

A generouspensionscheme with employer contributions of up to 5%

25 daysholiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4volunteeringdays 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 [email protected] .