The Times and Sunday Times Graduate Trainee Scheme

Times Law; London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000

Job description

The Times and Sunday Times Graduate Trainee Scheme

Join to apply for the The Times and Sunday Times Graduate Trainee Scheme role at The Times.

The Times and The Sunday Times invites applications for its 2025 graduate training programme. This is an opportunity to work at Britain’s most trusted quality newspapers, alongside award-winning journalists.

You will receive on-the-job training, mentoring, and guidance and will spend time with a number of different departments across both papers, including reporting, production, and digital teams. You will learn everything we can teach you about how to create content, tell stories, attract, grow, and capture an audience.

We are looking for candidates with originality, talent, commitment, and a love of journalism. The two-year scheme is based in London and if you are offered a place on the training programme, you will start work at the end of August 2025.

Your application

Please apply by uploading two documents:

1. Document one: A cover letter that explains why you want to join The Times and The Sunday Times graduate training programme (max 500 words), along with three examples of your published journalism.
2. Document two: Your CV.

Applications close on Sunday April 6, 2025.

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, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion, and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform 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

Driven by passion, guided by principles, and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect, and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce.

Some of our benefits include:

• 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 including coverage for pre-existing conditions.
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes.
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme.
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books.
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times.
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage, and counselling.
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%.
• 30 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year.

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on [e-mail].

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Writing/Editing

Industries

Newspaper Publishing, Broadcast Media Production and Distribution, and Retail Books and Printed News.