Assistant Business Editor

About The Role

You will be responsible for setting the agenda and the final news output for Telegraph Business and Tech across digital and print. This role is platform neutral, with the focus on identifying the day’s most important stories and deciding how we are going to treat them. You will be responsible for line managing the reporting team and will work closely with other desk editors to ensure priorities and targets are met.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, commission and edit business and economics news and features with a focus on exclusives, original reporting and adding value to drive subscriptions.
• Liaise with the Business Editor plus other key editors - including planning, digital, social and print - to ensure priorities on all platforms are met.
• Manage deadlines and resources across multiple channels
• Responsible for monitoring the wires, stock market announcements, rival publications and social media to spot opportunities for coverage.
• Generate original ideas for off-diary reporting.
• Working alongside reporters to ensure fast and accurate filing of stories.
• Editing and rewriting stories as required to make fit for publication.

Key Skills

• A proven journalist with considerable experience working in business journalism - across print and digital - at a national level.
• Proven experience of dealing with breaking news, commissioning analysis and delivering exclusives.
• Experience of managing reporters and getting the best out of them and their copy.
• Ability to edit, to write headlines and to sell a story. Ability to spot opportunities from an array of sources.
• A persuasive and excellent communicator.
• Highly numerically literate. Experience with data journalism and use of graphics.
• Digitally savvy - understanding of digital storytelling and optimisation of content through social media and SEO.
• Understanding of analytics to help guide commissioning process.

Additional skills useful for the role

• Good eye for visuals - pictures, video and graphics to illustrate stories.
• Understanding of both print and online production.
• Experience of working within a subscription model.

Our Benefits

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

At Telegraph Media Group, we 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 believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.