The Economist is looking for a journalist to join its digital team in London. Please note: applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
This is a hybrid role that encompasses our evolving daily briefing products and our news-publishing operations for our apps and website. The role involves some shift and weekend working.
The mission is to help ensure that The Economist’s daily digital offering provides topical, habit-forming, high-quality analysis that suits a variety of different audiences, and in particular that our daily briefing services provide a responsive view of the day’s essential global stories.
The ideal candidates will have the ability to write and edit crisply and cleanly; excellent news judgment and analytical rigour; experience of working in a news environment; a calm head and an eye for detail; and an understanding of global politics, business and finance.
Applicants should write a sample Explainer of around 600 words on any subject of their choosing, which would be suitable to run online. They should send their copy and a CV to: UKnewsdeskjob@economist.com
The deadline is September 18th 2022.
Key responsibilities include:
- Planning, writing, editing and updating our daily briefing services
- Ensuring timely and smooth publication of digital-only and early-digital stories
- Updating elements of our home pages, hubs and section pages
- Monitoring news services and alerting senior editors to breaking stories and our audience teams to opportunities to resurface our published content
Objectives:
- Ensuring that our daily briefing service is timely, distinctive and a pleasure to read
- Ensuring that our digital publishing processes run faultlessly, throughout the week and around the clock
- Helping to ensure that the home pages of our digital products and channels like newsletters and social media reflect the news cycle
Key relationships include:
- Editor, digital news products
- Senior news editor
- Head of audience
- Regional digital editors (depending on locations)
The ideal skills for these roles are:
- An ability to write and edit crisply and cleanly
- Excellent news judgment and analytical rigour
- Experience of working in a news environment
- A calm head and an eye for detail
- An understanding of global politics, business and finance
To apply, go here.
