Editorial Performance Graduate Programme - September 2025

Are you a graduate with a thirst for data and want to join the newsroom of one of the world’s best media organisations?

The Telegraph is recruiting graduates who want to be part of our brilliant team. We want committed people who have a real passion for reader behaviour, audience growth and content promotion. The Editorial Performance Graduate will be trained on a rotational programme across various departments within editorial and beyond with a purpose of developing a well-rounded understanding of the newsroom, and using that knowledge to gather data, turn the data into insights and from there shape and refine our journalism.

This programme is designed to expose the Graduate to the core parts of our Newsroom, developing both editorial knowledge and technical skills. They will spend time working in each of the following areas, SEO, Newsletters, Community and Social Media. After completing this programme the Graduate will have the knowledge and experience needed to specialise within Editorial Performance.

What to expect from each team:

• In SEO you will learn how we optimise our content for search engines, look at trends, but also pre-empt where there will be search and play an integral part in event planning. You’ll learn how to use Google Trends to research search volumes and interest, helping the team add on-page optimisation to articles
• The Newsletters desk is responsible for managing The Telegraph's portfolio of 40+ newsletters. Whilst working with the team you’ll learn how to curate articles for different audiences, contribute to the creation of newsletter products and make recommendations for newsletter performance
• The Community desk is focused on encouraging readers to share their views and experiences and to promote subscriber engagement and retention. Here you’ll learn which content generates the most engagement and how we use key metrics to optimise this
• The Social Media team is an integral and creative part of our newsroom. Here you’ll learn how to post effectively across a host of different channels as well as experimenting with innovative modes of creative storytelling

Across all teams the successful candidate will champion data-led decision-making, combining research and analytical skills to ensure our readers are at the very heart of everything we do.

Requirements

• A passion for news and numbers, and a desire to work in a newsroom
• Proactive, curious, self-confident, highly motivated team player.
• Understanding of the modern digital publishing landscape and the various levers that affect digital performance
• A natural curiosity and ability to question what they see
• The ability to spot trends and interrogate why those trends are taking place
• Experience working with tools such as Microsoft Office/Google Docs
• Creative and confident in communicating
• Attention to detail
• A numerate degree or other similar relevant qualification

Please apply with your CV and a cover letter explaining why you would like to work for The Telegraph in this role.

Following your initial application, you may be invited to complete a pre-assessment task. 

An in-person assessment centre will be conducted on Friday 18th July 2025. The successful candidate will join the team in September, 2025.

Benefits

With a highly competitive base, plus study support, and benefits including healthcare, pension and the best variety of retailer and other discounts, there's no reason not to apply now. 

Our commitment to inclusion

We want you to feel you belong here and welcome candidates from all backgrounds. Our organisation is on a continuous journey to achieve this sense of belonging, with focused inclusion policies, training, and internal networks. We believe it’s not only the right thing to do but that there’s a strong business case to support it. Because if you feel you belong, you’ll feel more comfortable, so you’ll be more likely to achieve your best.

We have a number of internal networks that are totally inclusive and open for anyone to join. These include internal inclusion networks covering employees from ethnic minority backgrounds, working families, LGBTQ+, disabilities and long-term conditions, gender, wellbeing, and women in tech.

Your wellbeing is paramount, so we have trained over 100 Mental Health First Aiders in the last two years to help support our employees. We’ve also signed the Tech Talent Charter, and are committed to driving greater inclusion and diversity in tech.The Telegraph’s goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives, and backgrounds.

We are an equal opportunities employer, hiring solely on merit and business need. We encourage applications regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, and disability. If you require reasonable adjustments in any recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

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