Newsletters are key to the FT’s strategy – building up habits, leading to traffic, retaining our subscribers, and acquiring new ones. As we expand our portfolio, we are looking for a writer and editor to join our newsletter team. In this role you’ll be writing, editing, producing and promoting our newsletters.
You’ll be adept at building relationships across the newsroom, have excellent digital and analytical skills, and be confident writing, curating and editing high-quality content. You’ll understand the medium of email, bring ideas for how to develop its growth and impact as a form of journalism, be aware of newsletter industry trends, and enjoy connecting with readers. You will also have a good eye for a fine subject line. An interest and expertise in economics, politics and financial markets would be particularly useful.
Key Responsibilities
- Writing, editing, curating and producing a variety of newsletters, covering economics, politics, business and finance
- Optimising a selection of FT newsletters using data to inform your decisions
- Helping us to grow our newsletter audience and working with the audience engagement team to promote the newsletters for which you have responsibility
- Filling in for other newsletter editors and writers when the occasion arises
- Working collaboratively with other members of the newsletter team and cross-functionally with other departments to develop and execute the FT’s newsletter strategy
Your Skills
- A passion for, and experience of, newsletters
- Excellent editing, writing and organisational skills
- Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines
- An interest in, and experience of working with, data to inform editorial decisions
- Experience in digital production
- Excellent communication skills and experience working collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders
Please submit your application by the end of the day, Friday 23rd February 2024.
To apply, go here.
Chris RoushChris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.