3 Digital Production Journalist jobs in the United Kingdom

About The Role

Responsible for sub-editing and publishing digital Features, Lifestyle and Magazine longreads across The Telegraph. You will ensure our content  - both reactive and longer term - is produced to the highest quality for a digital audience. Your production should optimise content across our digital platforms, driving traffic and subscriptions through exemplary copy, headlines and visuals.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure copy is accurate, well presented and optimised for a digital audience.
• Write sharp, digital-friendly headlines. Make use of the best pictures, video and other multimedia assets to keep readers engaged.
• Help plan and execute longer term series and special projects.
• Compile, create and manage weekly newsletter sends
• Work with our Visual Storytelling team to commission graphics and illustrations that add value and help tell our stories.
• Work with SEO to ensure articles perform across search
• Liaise closely with our Social Media and Community teams to plan and enhance our features and lifestyle content across social platforms.

Key Skills

• Experience of sub-editing and producing  stories on digital platforms.
• Experience of working in news at regional, trade or national level, ideally within Features, Lifestyle or longreads.
• Knowledge of how best to present content for digital and social platforms - what makes a great headline and standfirst, how to build value-adding embeds and structure articles to appeal to mobile readers.
• Enthusiasm, imagination and digital ideas are all essential.
• Quick, accurate subbing.
• Able to respond well under pressure and adhere to strict deadlines.

Our benefits

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.

Role purpose and overview

You will be responsible for editing and publishing digital content on The Telegraph's Recommended channel and other online channels.

Working full time Monday to Friday, you will ensure our content (chiefly product reviews) is produced in the most effective way for a digital audience - so that it

• attracts traffic
• drives subscriptions
• drives affiliate revenue
• sparkles on site and on social media.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure copy is accurate, well presented and optimised for a digital audience.
• Build articles in the Telegraph Recommended house style. Source product photographs and edit them using Adobe Photoshop.
• Ensure all affiliate links are correct and prices up to date.
• Improve the user experience. This means writing useful, search-optimised and snappy headlines and making use of polls, infographics, video and other multimedia assets to keep readers engaged.
• Be creative with structure and editorial tools to enhance the written copy.
• Liaise closely with the commercial SEO team on daily and weekly refreshes of existing product reviews to ensure that they always come at the top of Google searches.

Essential vs desirable skills required for the role
Essential:

• Quick, accurate subbing and an eye for small details (especially in links).
• Proven experience of creating and editing stories on digital platforms.
• Experience of working in features or lifestyle at regional, trade or national level.
• Understanding of social media and SEO.
• Knowledge of how best to present content for digital platforms - what content will appear first in search, how to structure articles for mobile readers.
• Familiarity with the world of consumer technology, the major brands and their major products. Having a reasonable idea of how the key technologies work will help you spot mistakes in copy.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise deadlines.

• Proven ability to respond well under pressure and deliver a high volume of content at pace

Desirable:

• A good understanding of the Telegraph audience.
• Experience with Adobe Photoshop.
• Experience writing product reviews.
• Sometimes we have to create our own photo and short video content. An ability to do this will be a bonus.

Benefits

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website