The Economist, Journalist - News Desk

We're hiring a journalist to work on our News Desk 

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 also send their copy and a CV.

The deadline is September 18th 2022.

Areas of responsibility 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

The Economist Group values diversity. We are committed to equal opportunities and creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. We welcome applicants regardless of ethnic origin, national origin, gender, gender identity, race, colour, religious beliefs, disability, sexual orientation , age or marital status.