Location
Croydon, Cambridgeshire | United Kingdom
Job description
- Business: emap
- Brand: Property Week
- Base Location: Croydon/Hybrid ( 3 days from home, 2 days in the office)
- Employment Type: Full time, Permanent
- Salary: £ competitive
Overall Purpose of the Role:
- Property Week is the leading provider of news, insight, and events for the UK commercial and residential property industry. PW’s News Editor plays a key role in meeting this brief.
- You will oversee all of PW’s news, in print and online, ensuring a digital-first mindset is maintained throughout the team.
- You will chair daily news meeting and assess which stories to pursue, working with the Editor and Deputy Editor to co-ordinate news reporting across the PW team.
- You will make a key contribution to PW’s long-term tone and priorities, through your own news reporting as well as occasional long-form journalism such as features and interviews.
- Your confidence and experience will help you cultivate contacts across the full spectrum of property professions and policy makers, including finance, project development, real estate sales, housebuilding, construction, law, consulting, surveying, planning, think-tanks, local government and central government.
- At heart, this role offers a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious journalist to create brilliant content and inspire a wider editorial team. You will lead by example and set a high standard of quality journalism, serving the interests of an engaged audience of subscribers. Property is a nationally significant industry, and you will be in a position to break big stories ahead of the mainstream media.
- Initially you will line-manage a news team of three, and there may be scope to manage others in the future.
Key responsibilities:
- Chairing daily news meetings, allocating beats, and tackling the first edit of news material.
- Selecting and editing news and commissioning analysis articles for print and online.
- Maintaining a calendar of foreseeable news events and monitoring the output of rival media.
- Researching and writing your own news stories, analysis and opinion pieces, plus regular long-form contributions such as investigations and features.
- Supporting the Editor and Head of Content in delivering editorial output that is legal, of high quality, and meets the needs of PW’s audience across print, digital and social media.
- Managing your direct reports and guiding their development.
- Collaborating with PW production and digital staff to ensure material is speedily readied for publication, and that PW stories achieve their full potential using analytics and social media.
- Participating in PW’s live and digital events as required.
Skills and experience:
- Sufficient journalism experience to be comfortable managing others as well as your own work.
- Familiar with the demands of writing news for an audience of business subscribers.
- Able to build and maintain the network of contacts needed to deliver exclusive stories.
- Copy-editing skills to ensure stories have a sharp headline, strong angle and a clear flow of facts.
- A good grasp of journalism law and how to write effectively about a litigious industry.
- Ready to offer guidance to other writers on angles and news gathering techniques.
- Experience of working with fast-paced, digital-first formats is preferable, as is familiarity with using analytics to help raise the performance of editorial output
- The ability to tackle multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Ideally with an interest in business finance and politics as well as the built environment.
Core competencies:
- Demonstrable B2B journalism skills with a strong portfolio of published news stories.
- Comfortable with the demands of digital-first publications.
- Capable of spotting stories in financial reports and government data.
- Skilled at developing stories with follow-up reports, including stories broken by other publications.
- Organised, able to plan ahead and to prioritise competing tasks.
- Comfortable managing others, delegating work, and providing guidance in a constructive way.
Personal Attributes:
- Organised and able to plan, including managing the work of other people
- A good communicator
- Able to speedily assimilate information and make quick decisions in fast-changing situations
- Confident, self-motivated, and determined to produce work of high quality
- A team player who enjoys contributing to long-term shared goals
- Competitive and keen to outdo rival publications
- Motivated to share insights and help the development of less experienced colleagues
Learning & Development:
At emap, we believe that employee learning and development are the key drivers of our success. To ensure continuous growth and meet the ever-changing demands of the workplace, we provide an environment that fosters continuous development for our employees.
Our employees are encouraged to identify their areas of personal and professional development aligned with our strategic areas, including management development, health, safety & wellbeing, sales, events management, marketing strategy, editorial, and information technology . We have a structured framework designed to help equip our employees with the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to excel in their job roles, contributing to achieving our organizational objectives.
To support our employees’ career development, we have designed specialized programs, as well as other stand-alone role-specific and generic courses, under the emap academy .
This excitingpositionis a full-time hybrid role. 2 days in the office, 3 daysfrom home. This could change over time depending on business needs.
Remote working or visa sponsorship are not available. emap does not offer visa sponsorship. Based on the UK employment law you need to have valid right to work in UK. Share code will be required during the interview process.
Benefits: emap is part of Metropolis Group. Together we are committed to providing a happy and healthy place to work, so we offer fantastic benefits and perks to our employees.
- 25 days of holiday per year (with the option to buy or sell)
- Health plan
- Life assurance
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Discounted gym memberships
- Retail discount vouchers
- Rail season ticket loans
- Private virtual GP access
- Pension scheme
- Income protection and more
- Continuous learning & development opportunities
- Seasonal flu jabs on site
- One paid volunteer day per year
- Summer and Winter parties
- Work from home during August
- In-house Excellence Awards and other innovation projects
Privacy: Metropolis Group respects the privacy of every person for whom we have personal data. We comply with data protection legislation such as the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation which regulates the processing of data and ensures that your data is processed fairly and lawfully, is kept secure and only that data necessary for any processing is kept. You can see our privacy policy at .
Diversity and Inclusion: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, age, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.
How to apply: Please send your CV and covering letter to [email protected] . Due to the volume of applications, we receive, we are unable to give individual feedback at the application stage, however if you are successfully shortlisted you will be contacted within 10 working days of the closing date.
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