The Economist seeks a journalist for its digital team in London

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.

Chris Roush

Chris 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.