Digital Production Editor - Content Hub

We are looking for six Digital Production Editors to join our newly formed Content Hub. This is a fantastic opportunity to use our in-house AI, Guten, to create content for multiple sites, including the Mirror, Express, Star, Manchester Evening News, Daily Record, Liverpool Echo, Birmingham Live and more.

You will play a key role in amplifying content that has been created by our Content Hub and brand teams, using AI to meet our brand guidelines. You will be writing, headlining, managing and editing content, ensuring audience targets are delivered every month.

The Content Hub is home to around 300 journalists from across our business and powered by our amazing brands, delivering brilliant content that drives engagement, impact and results.

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, BirminghamLive 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.

We are happy to consider applications on a flexible working basis, and will always aim to accommodate requests where possible.

This role is home based and we are therefore open to candidates based across the UK.

What will the role involve?

• Content Creation: Amplifying existing content from our Content Hub verticals and brand teams, using AI to produce multiple different versions. Rewriting and reworking copy and headlines to engage readers and to reach as many people as possible, across several platforms
• Publication: Publishing content on multiple websites, ensuring Reach digital publishing standards are met at all times.
• Distribution: Highlighting content for inclusion on homepages and in audience engagement channels, such as social platforms and newsletters, as and when required.
• Engaging Readers: Building communities online and in real life to share stories with once published, and engage with readers about those stories
• Editing and Proofreading: Reviewing and editing articles for clarity, grammar, punctuation, and style consistency. Ensuring all content adheres to our editorial guidelines.
• Ensuring IPSO standards are met at all times, and every piece of content is legally sound
• Utilising AI tools, in line with Company policies, to optimise content creation, improve accuracy and efficiency, and deliver engaging articles for the vertical that resonate with our audience
• This role will involve working shifts on a rota basis including some weekends and evenings so a flexible approach is required.

Who are we looking for?

You are an experienced NCTJ or equivalent qualified journalist (or have relevant time served experience) with in depth knowledge of media law. You have demonstrable experience writing, editing and publishing news content in a digital newsroom environment, using video, words and pictures. You have a fantastic eye for detail and clear passion for digital storytelling and trending content.

You can optimise stories in accordance with the digital SEO and social strategies, write and edit in line with digital house style and identify unique headlines and angles for stories to make content more searchable. You have excellent social media experience and can utilise various platforms to boost your content. You are a first class writer with excellent communication and organisation skills.

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.