Senior Reporter​/Junior Assistant News Editor

The Sun Online is the biggest mobile news brand in the UK - and still growing - with a talented, diverse team who publish the best coverage of news, sport, TV and showbiz and lifestyle.

Your role:
We are looking for a new Senior Reporter/Junior Assistant News Editor to help grow our award-winning operation. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced senior reporter looking to make a step up to join The Sun’s leading digital news desk.

• Assist Head of Digital News in both working within and leading a team of high-performing reporters

• Manage and run reporters and freelancers in office & on the ground on the big stories of the day

• Oversee tips, exclusives and original content ideas from start to finish to an excellent standard

• Work with audience and homepage teams to ensure stories are optimised for every platform

• Be brimming with agenda-driven ideas, strong exclusives and quirky, original, Sun-style content

• Contribute to The Sun’s off-diary operation and improve the quality and quantity of our content

• Help to drive growth through data-led decision-making and be adept at utilising analytics

• Collaborate closely with our video team to help bring video to the heart of our storytelling

• Liaise with agencies and freelancers to make sure our coverage stays ahead of the competition

• Help train and develop our talented young reporters and get the most out of them day-to-day

• Lead the news operation as and when required, including at nights and weekends when necessary

• Previous experience working at a national newsdesk level

• Experience of running multiple reporters at once and work calmly under pressure

• Knowledge of and experience in using recognised search tools, analytics and video

• Proven experience leading news operations on occasion and a track record of exclusives

• Solid contacts with agencies and freelancers around the UK and internationally

• Must have flair and an ability to spot the hidden potential in stories

• Be unflappable under pressure and work at a consistently high standard

• Positive attitude and a good team player

• Can demonstrate an understanding of the The Sun brand, across digital, print, video and social

• Flexibility to work shift patterns across 7 days

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.

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, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society.

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