Reporter, The Pharmacist

We are looking for a reporter to join our editorial team, to hit the ground running and bring energy and drive to our award-winning publication, The Pharmacist.

Pharmacy is one of the most rapidly changing sectors of the NHS, with expanding responsibilities for pharmacists working on the high street and in general practice, bringing with it a range of political, clinical, professional and business challenges and opportunities.

For a journalist interested in health policy, this is a competitive area, ripe for investigations, exclusives and informative news, to support our pharmacist community to thrive as they navigate the future.

News, interviews, features and data-led investigations will be on your daily agenda.

Key skills will include extensive contact building, developing a good understanding of the day-to-day priorities of working pharmacists, seeking out key voices, attending events, data analysis, and searching out exclusives and leads for investigations.

This is a junior health reporter role, so you will have an NCTJ or degree and ideally have had relevant work or freelance experience as a journalist.

The reporter will report to the deputy editor and work closely with the editor.

The Pharmacist team works alongside our other brands including Pulse, Nursing in Practice, Healthcare Leader and Pulse PCN and there will also be some opportunity to write across these sectors at times.

We have exciting plans ahead for The Pharmacist and are looking for the right person to join our team, with ambition, talent, drive and great ideas.

You will work within a wider team in an innovative health-focused publishing company that offers hybrid working and a central London office. We would like you to spend one day a week (or more, if you like) in our offices in Farringdon, in the City of London.

Responsibilities

• Writing around three news stories a day, including one lead
• Finding exclusive stories
• Building contacts to share with the rest of the news team
• Writing news-led features and in-depth investigations
• Working within tight print and online deadlines
• Going out to meetings and conferences
• Working with the rest of the editorial team to shape the content and direction of Cogora’s publications, which cover the whole of primary care
• Uploading content to the website
• Developing and building weekly newsletters
• Developing and contributing to our social media
• Contributing to the new Pulse podcast.
• Working with the wider Cogora Editorial Brands

Key Skills

Essential

• A portfolio of news stories, which can be from school or university newspapers, local
• press or any other publication;
• An appetite for writing news in a fast-paced environment;
• The ability to write fast, accurate copy;
• A basic knowledge of the UK health sector.

Highly desirable

• Experience of working in a busy newsroom;
• Some experience of writing about health policy.

Desirable, but not essential

• Science degree;
• Experience of data journalism

Our Benefits Include:

• 23 days annual leave
• Birthday off
• 4 days additional leave during Company closure at Christmas
• 2 days additional leave on completion of two years employment
• Option to roll over and/or purchase additional annual leave
• Private Healthcare Insurance including dental
• Flexible working policy
• Hybrid working
• Season Ticket Loan
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Enhanced Paid Maternity and Paid Paternity Leave.
• Volunteering/Charity Days & Fundraising contributions
• Office Equipment Allowance for WFH
• Pension Scheme
• Eyecare Vouchers
• Discounted gift cards and E-gifts
• Cashback scheme
• Free drinks, snacks and fruit in the office

We are looking to fill this role as soon as possible, so please send a CV, cover letter and examples of published work to Deputy Editor Megan Ford [email protected] and Editor Victoria Vaughan [email protected] or apply below.

Application Deadline: 30th July 2025

Please note that due to the expected high numbers of applications, we are able to only contact successful candidates. Interviews will be arranged as and when suitable candidates apply and we reserve the right to close applications at any time once a successful candidate has been selected.

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