Audience Editor

About Independent Media

Independent Media comprises The Independent, Standard Digital, Bulletin, Buzz Feed UK, Huff Post UK, Tasty UK, Seasoned, Indy Best and indy
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Harnessing market-leading innovation and excellence across its portfolio of pioneering brands, Independent Media has unrivalled scale, integrity and authority via its sites, apps, video, audio, experiential, newsletters and social media.

While each Independent Media brand speaks in an authentic, unique voice to a loyal and distinct audience, they stand together in their commitment to positivity, inclusivity, and quality journalism and content.

Independent Media’s network reaches 650 million users each month, with 1.1 billion content views across its brands and platforms, including web, apps, social media, podcasts, email, You Tube, syndication partners and print.

The Independent is recruiting an Audience Editor to play an essential role in maintaining and growing our audience across all platforms. You will work alongside editors and reporters across desks to commission, optimise and promote our journalism. This role will demand knowledge and understanding of a plethora of topics from Strictly contestants to the names of key US cabinet members. The successful candidate will have experience in a newsroom managing social media accounts as well as optimising news articles for search and other Google products.

In addition, you will need a firm grasp of grammar and journalistic training such as NCTJ or equivalent. This is a role at the heart of the newsroom where quick-thinking and thriving under pressure is essential.

The Independent’s audience team enables millions across the globe to read our wide-ranging and in-depth coverage. Not only that, our team looks to ever grow the size and loyalty of that readership and the engagement around our content on social media platforms. The team is split between our London, New York and Delhi offices.

• We champion diversity in our teams and in our reporting. As a growing and global brand, we must have a workforce that’s more representative of our readers, viewers, clients and partners, and a workplace that creates a sense of belonging for everyone

• We are committed to hiring and developing a diverse workforce regardless of background, and we support our people to thrive in their careers here.

The Independent is an equal opportunities employer, if you require any reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please do not hesitate to advise us accordingly.

The Independent is looking for a dynamic and experienced audience editor to grow its global reach and help lead changes in editorial strategy and workflow.

As part of the UK audience team, the right candidate will be a highly-organised self-starter, with a deep understanding of how to achieve audience growth across all platforms, as well as being a skilled journalist and wordsmith. They will work on stories across the newsroom and the globe.

We are looking for someone who has a genuine passion for content and how best to achieve audiences on a large scale. You might be a trained journalist with experience in an equivalent organisation, keen to specialise as an audience editor.

You’ll be working in a fast-paced environment where accuracy and creativity are key so the ability to think under pressure is vital.

We are preferably looking for candidates from a journalistic background with newsroom and social media or SEO experience, but will consider someone with excellent social media or SEO skills, a strong interest in news and the ability to learn quickly.

This role will be hybrid remote, spending 3 days per week in our offices in Moorgate.

• Monitor news and wires constantly for traffic opportunities

• Recraft headlines to make content pop on and off platform

• Help inform journalistic decisions with audience best practice in mind

• Help to implement social media strategy across all platforms

• Create engaging native content for all social media platforms, Facebook, Reddit and Instagram

• Use analytics platforms to report on performance and spot opportunities

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