Assistant News Editor

NEWS UK; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

News UK Assistant News Editor in London, United Kingdom

Location: London

Department: The Sun

Salary Details: Not Specified

Advertising End Date: 20 Apr 2025

Job Description:

The Sun is Britain’s biggest-selling newspaper and largest mobile news brand - and still growing - with a talented, diverse team who publish the best news, sport, showbiz, and lifestyle coverage in the business.

Your role:

We are looking for a new Assistant News Editor to help grow our award-winning operation. This is a rare opportunity for the right applicant to join The Sun’s news desk.

Day to day you will:

1. Run the biggest news stories of the day and oversee major breaking news.
2. Help develop The Sun Online's off-diary operation and improve the quality and quantity of our original content.
3. Manage and run reporters on the ground going after the biggest stories of the day, as well as seeing tips through to finished stories.
4. Liaise with agencies and freelancers to make sure our coverage stays ahead of the competition.
5. Help train and develop our talented young reporters and get the most out of them.
6. Assist the news editor with management of the team.
7. Lead the news operation as and when required, including at nights and weekends when necessary.

What we are looking for from you:

1. Experience working at national newsdesk level with a track record of delivering exclusives.
2. Experience of running multiple reporters on the ground at once.
3. Knowledge of and experience in recognised search tools.
4. Must have experience of leading news operations on occasion.
5. Solid contacts with agencies and freelancers around the UK and internationally.
6. Must have flair and an ability to spot the hidden potential in stories.
7. Unflappable under pressure and delivers work at a consistently high standard.
8. Positive attitude and good team player.
9. Can demonstrate an understanding of The Sun brand, both print and digital.
10. Flexibility to work shift patterns across 7 days.

We are News UK: 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, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: At News UK, our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the health and wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%.
• 30 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year.
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks.
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
• Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions.
• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes.
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non-visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.