Content Editor - NottinghamshireLive, DerbyshireLive and LincolnshireLive

Company Description

We are looking for a Content Editor to join our dynamic East Midlands brands NottinghamshireLive, DerbyshireLive and LincolnshireLive, starting June 2025. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Content Editor looking for a new challenge or a senior reporter, hungry to take the next step in their journalism career. 

You will play a key role in our strategy to continue to grow our audience, to deepen our relationship with existing readers and reach our underserved communities.

We’re looking for fresh ideas and new perspectives from people from a wide range of backgrounds so we can continue to diversify our content.

So, who are we?

We are Reach Plc, you might not have heard of us but we have probably met without you even realising it. We are home to the UK and Ireland’s most iconic digital platforms, magazines and newspapers. From the Mirror, Daily Express and OK!, to our regional titles such as the Liverpool Echo, YorkshireLive and the Manchester Evening News (plus lots more), our brands and the stories we cover are as varied as our people. We help all kinds of people share experiences through our stories because we believe this is what makes us human.

Oh, and we should probably also mention that with a monthly readership of 47 million people, Reach is the largest commercial publisher in the UK. At Reach, not only will you feel better understood, you will also feel you understand other people better too. 

This role can be fully remote for candidates across the UK or hybrid linked to our Nottingham hub for those based in or around Nottingham.

Job Description

What will the role involve?

You will support your team of reporters to deliver great content, including words, pictures and video ensuring we get the highest possible levels of audience engagement. You will organise and manage the publishing of fresh, engaging, accurate and legally-sound news content. Live coverage is a vital part of our newsrooms, so you will use your excellent news sense to know when to launch live blogs for big stories and how to maintain momentum as readers flock to our sites.

You will be a hands-on people manager, supporting and inspiring your team to pitch and write engagement stories. You will oversee our websites and social media channels, helping to develop our social strategy. You will play a crucial role in developing our Customer Value Strategy and looking for opportunities to maximise our audience loyalty. This role will involve working shifts on a rota basis including some evenings and weekends so a flexible approach is required

Qualifications

Who are we looking for?

You are an experienced NCTJ/NQJ qualified (or equivalent time served) journalist with extensive UK media law knowledge. You have a proven track record of writing and editing digital news content in a fast-paced newsroom environment. You are a first class writer and storyteller with a thorough understanding of our news brands and audience engagement strategies. You have a good understanding of SEO, search, social and digital audience behaviour. 

You are social media savvy and have experience utilising various social platforms including but not limited to Facebook, X and Instagram. Ideally you have prior people management experience, or you are keen to step up into a management role, utilising your communication, motivation and people skills to do so. You have a good working knowledge of the East Midlands and can use this to inform your content decisions.

Additional Information

What can we offer you?

We are offering a competitive salary and benefits including;

• Help saving for your retirement - join our pension scheme and we’ll match contributions up to 6%
• 25 days’ holiday per year when you join. After three, five and ten years’ service with Reach, you’ll accrue one additional day of annual leave. We also have a Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Giving back day - an additional day’s leave each year to support a cause close to your heart
• Enhanced family leave - including maternity, paternity and adoption - and you’ll be eligible after just six months’ employment
• Private Healthcare Cash Plan - free health cash plan so you can claim back cash for a range of medical expenses
• As one of the UK’s top 50 Inclusive Employers everyone’s invited to join our events, programmes and networks to celebrate diversity and build an environment where all our people can thrive
• Wellbeing support - including a 24/7 employee assistance programme (EAP) for you and your nearest and dearest
• Awesome career opportunities - you’ll have support from your line manager and a range of learning & development programmes
• We are also a member of the 30% Club, a global campaign aimed at increasing gender diversity at board and senior management levels

Reach plc believes diversity brings benefits for our customers, our business and our people. This is why we are committed to being an inclusive employer and encourage applications from all suitable applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation.