Newsquest, the UK’s main native media group, has introduced a significant new £1.5 million every year funding in native journalism with the recruitment of fifty new digital journalist roles throughout the UK.
As a part of this funding we’re in search of extra top-class regional SEO content journalists to assist lead its unrivalled native on-line protection throughout the UK.
Every day our on-line information manufacturers attain tens of millions of individuals proper throughout the nation – virtually 80 per cent of the native inhabitants – and you’ll be becoming a member of a crew of pushed, revolutionary digital specialists taking our content to the following degree.
This function presents an thrilling alternative for a digitally-savvy journalist with a information of SEO tendencies and practices to spot the most recent (and subsequent!) trending new tales, options and way of life content.
The key for this function is tapping into these subjects and making them not solely related however insightful for native audiences, in addition to preserving on high of what’s resonating in your space.
You might be delivering the type of quick, agile and dynamic protection optimised for SEO that our readers anticipate and deserve in 2021 – usually earlier than they know they wish to learn it.
You might be keen about digital storytelling, with a need to provide you with new and revolutionary methods of telling these tales utilizing an unlimited array of various abilities, instruments and platforms.
A giant a part of the job can even be immersing your self in social media via numerous monitoring instruments that can assist you inform your tales and spot the following huge factor, whether or not that be arduous information, showbiz and TV, movie star, information options, explainers and ‘information you should use’.
We wish to give our readers the content they wish to learn, after they wish to learn it. Your job might be to anticipate this and use your glowing writing abilities to guarantee our protection is the most effective, and the place native audiences select to return first.
Key duties
- Using your SEO abilities to succeed in the biggest potential viewers
- Using search instruments to analysis and perceive the subjects persons are trying to find
- Identifying subjects in which native manufacturers can legitimately turn into an authority
- Writing high-quality, correct digital information tales, stay blogs and options to deadlines as agreed by SEO editor
- Work with SEO editor and information analyst to know what to analysis and write subsequent
- Building communities on-line and in actual life to share tales with as soon as printed, and turn into engaged with readers about these tales
- Thinking creatively to provide you with new story concepts and methods to ship them to our viewers that go well with our digital platforms
- Building our digital viewers following to convey our content to much more folks in the neighborhood
- Spotting nationwide/regional content that would resonate in your patch and making it related and attention-grabbing to our readers
- Helping devise and handle a carefully-plotted SEO ahead plan calendar to make sure we don’t miss a beat
- Ensuring every bit of content is completely researched and balanced previous to publication
- With steering from editors, utilizing analytics to determine what our readers like and what they need subsequent from our protection
- Joining forces together with your counterparts throughout the UK to share concepts, greatest observe, success tales and abilities
- Communicating with newsrooms across the nation to make sure your protection chimes with the native market
Ideally you’ll have:
- An understanding of search engine optimisation (SEO) and abilities in producing content which works in search
- Knowing what readers wish to learn, utilizing each your eager information sense and information insights
- Passion for telling tales which is able to develop new various audiences
- Exceptional consideration to element
- The skill to put in writing – and assume – shortly beneath strain
- A eager information sense
- Bags of concepts for the way tales will be offered in the very best approach for our audiences
- An understanding of what audiences need, and when
- Excellent social media abilities and the power to identify tales and trending subjects
- NCTJ qualification (together with 100wpm shorthand)
- Excellent information of related media regulation
- An adaptable model to supply every little thing from stay blogs and listicles to long-reads and options
- Great folks abilities and the power to get on with a variety of individuals in the neighborhood
- A excessive degree of organisation and the power to handle your personal diary out on patch
- Collaborative abilities to pool concepts with the broader digital reporting crew and tackle board ideas
Reporting to the regional SEO content editor, these roles might be based mostly in Scotland, Wales, Essex, South Coast, North West, North East, London, Midlands South, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Cumbria.
If this seems like a job for you then please ship your CV and a short e mail stating the area you have an interest in working in to [email protected] by 31 May 2021.
