News Archives Operations Specialist

News Archives Operations Specialist

Location:

Rainham, Essex
Your team:

Rights, Licensing & Archives delivers cross-business rights management, content protection, licensing, and archiving services to both internal teams and external customers. The department supports News UK by maximising content value, protecting intellectual property, and ensuring long-term asset preservation.

comprises the document, artefact, back issues, and picture collections, alongside information and records management services, within Rights, Licensing & Archives. The team supports all News UK departments in content acquisition, creation, management, delivery, and asset protection.

We are looking for a News Archives Operations Specialist to join our dynamic team. You will manage, preserve, and unlock the full potential of News UK's rich historical and multimedia assets. Reporting to the News Archives Manager, you will play a key part in maintaining digital and physical collections while identifying revenue opportunities and supporting editorial research.

• Archive images, documents, and multimedia assets in accordance with departmental standards and copyright requirements.
• Manage information resources and image metadata within the CHP database to ensure security and integrity.
• Conduct detailed research to support editorial, radio, podcast, and commercial licensing projects.
• Digitise physical archive formats, including scanning images for editorial requests and internal or external exhibitions.
• Facilitate training programmes for newsroom teams on archiving systems and self-service research tools.
• Process record deposits, retrievals, and loans in line with corporate governance and compliance requirements.

• Proven experience archiving diverse content types using image management and database systems such as CHP, Calm, Factiva, or similar applications.
• Practical experience handling, cataloguing, and packaging physical archive materials or artefacts in line with conservation principles.
• Strong understanding of copyright principles, image clearance rights, and asset protection.
• Clear communication skills with a customer-focused approach to delivering accurate research under tight deadlines.
• Adaptable problem-solving skills to manage changing priorities and navigate ambiguous research requests effectively.

is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our news brands 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.

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.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender,…