Chief Reporter, Inside Housing in City of London

Job description

Job overview:

Trade Title Inside Housing is looking to hire a chief reporter to join its award-winning editorial team. This is an opportunity for you to progress your reporting career and build your profile. The job will give you the chance to work in one of the most important and busiest fields in journalism, reporting on stories that have a wide-reaching impact. We’re looking for a chief reporter who will help us with our coverage on a range of topics such as welfare, the ongoing fallout from the Grenfell Tower disaster and government efforts to solve the housing crisis. The role is also likely to involve getting to grips with social housing finance and the business side of the sector.

Responsibilities

• You will work as part of the reporting team on Inside Housing to deliver exclusive stories and analysis to our readers. Your role will include:
• Writing exclusive and compelling off-diary news stories across the magazine and the website
• Contributing ideas for and writing features and news analysis
• Carrying out investigations for news and features
• Running patches and keeping informed about events, trends and issues affecting our core readership of housing professionals

Core skills:

Inside Housing is looking for someone with previous experience working in journalism and a strong record of delivering high quality new stories. The job is the ideal opportunity for someone looking to expand their career by working on a high-profile trade title.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. Over the years, Inside Housing has established itself as an authority on housing and our stories have regularly cut through to the national media. You will share our passion for delivering high-quality content, working with the rest of the Inside Housing team to break the stories and carry out the investigations that matter to our audience.

Why join us?

• Flexible working hours
• Development and training
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + an additional day to be taken for birthdays
• Pension scheme – enhanced employer contribution of 4%
• Annual Christmas and Summer parties and regular Socials
• Discounted gym membership
• Optional health care scheme
• Benefits platform with discounts and savings on shopping, days out, holidays, cinema etc.
• Bike2Work scheme
• Life Assurance
• Season ticket loan
• Employee Referral Bonus

About Ocean Media Group

Living our Values

Ocean Media Group is a dynamic and progressive organisation that puts its customers and people first. We create market-leading events and digital information products that help our customers succeed and in turn drive our growth.

“Together we succeed”

We are passionate and inquiring; we adapt, innovate and invest to create business environments full of opportunity. We aim to lead our markets to a better future. Our innovative mixed-media approach, delivered expertly through our market leading brands, creates highly engaged and loyal audiences.

Our Mission

‘To create unbeatable insights and experiences to help our customers succeed’

We work towards this goal by living our values in our conduct with all those with whom we interact – customers, employees, business partners, suppliers, competitors, investors and the general public.

Our Core Values

Externally, we will:

• develop exceptional insight into and rapport with our customers
• ensure that our commitment, authenticity and integrity are clear to all
• make doing business with us rewarding and a pleasure
• always strive to deliver the highest of standards

Internally, we will:

• respect and value our people
• reflect the best of our culture through our teams
• seek breakthroughs in what we do by constantly challenging ourselves
• foster and reward personal commitment and creativity

Our vision and values guide every action and are the focus of everything we do as we perform our responsibilities.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

City of London

Type of Contract

Casual / Part Time Jobs

Published at

21-08-2025

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English