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Newsquest, Digital Journalist - Oxford

Employer
Newsquest Media Group Ltd
Location
Oxford
Salary
£25,000-£29,000 - dependant on experience
Closing date
Aug 30, 2021

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Industry
Journalist
Job Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Sector
Nationals, Regional, News
Discipline
Digital Journalist

Job Details

We’re looking for a digital dynamo to help drive the Oxford Mail - one of Newsquest’s flagship titles - to the next level online.

You will work alongside our lead digital ACE, motivating, mentoring and developing the reporting team and helping them get the very best out of their stories online and help us grow our audience.

You will have specific responsibility for driving growth on the weekly sites along with working on content across all titles.

The role includes helping with all aspects of digital, from story ideas and social to desking completed stories ahead of publication online and in print. The Oxford titles already have a strong online audience, but you’ll help take it to the next level.

You will be:

  • A digital native, who knows what readers want and when
  • Full of digital ideas and confident on how to make them sing online
  • Happy mentoring and developing reporters
  • Confident with analytics and how to use them to maximise digital traffic
  • An SEO supremo
  • A master of social and how best to use it
  • A qualified senior reporter with experience in leading teams

We also offer a competitive salary and bonus package, generous company benefits, remote working opportunities and the chance to work with some of the UK's best known local news brands.

Company

We are one of the largest regional news publishers in the UK and have a portfolio of more than 165 news brands plus more than 40 magazines (including 32 Living Magazines) online and in print.

With an online audience of almost 30 million users a month and six million readers a week in print, our content is read by a substantial proportion of the UK population.

In addition to our local news brands, we own a number of digital pure play and specialist media businesses such as s1Exchange & Mart, and Newsquest Specialist Media. You can see our Publishing page for more details.

Our parent company is Gannett Inc, the largest news publisher in the US. Gannett is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Website
Location
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Queens House
55/56 Lincolns Inn Fields
London
WC2A 3LJ
GB

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