Assistant Digital Editor

The Sun; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK news brand is seeking an Assistant Digital Editor to enhance audience engagement through high-quality digital content. The role focuses on editing, making key editorial decisions, and leading digital operations during weekends. Candidates should have experience in fast-paced news environments, a strong understanding of brand identity, and the ability to manage multiple tasks effectively. This position offers opportunities for professional growth within a dynamic team dedicated to delivering engaging news coverage.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Discounted gym memberships

Pension scheme with up to 5% employer contributions

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced news environment.
• Ability to translate brand identity for a digital audience.
• Calm under pressure with multiple high-priority tasks.

Responsibilities

• Edit stories for presentation standards, focusing on headlines.
• Make critical editorial decisions across various subjects.
• Oversee content quality and maintain homepage balance.
• Lead the digital operation during weekend shifts.
• Coordinate with video and audience teams for optimal storytelling.
• Manage push notifications for timely breaking news.

Skills

Proficiency in digital production

Understanding of brand identity

Ability to identify content opportunities

Experience using video for storytelling

Calmness under pressure

Full awareness of media law

Flexibility to work shifts

Job description

Your Role

As our Assistant Digital Editor, you will use your background in news production to help grow our audience and elevate the quality of our content. You will be a key leader within our vast team, bringing fresh ideas and directing editorial treatments across multiple sections to ensure The Sun remains the UK's top digital destination. Day to day you will:

Responsibilities

• Edit and polish stories to ensure the highest standards of presentation, specifically focusing on headlines and imagery to maximise engagement.
• Make critical editorial calls on story treatments across diverse subject areas ranging from breaking news to sport.
• Oversee the quality of content by identifying fresh angles and sourcing superior visual footage.
• Manage The Sun's homepage and indexes, using data‑driven insights to ensure the perfect balance, tone, and mix of content.
• Lead the digital operation during weekend shifts, acting as the senior editorial authority in the office.
• Liaise with the video department and audience teams to maximise storytelling opportunities across search, social, and multi-platform channels.
• Manage push notifications to ensure our breaking news reaches our readers instantly.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in digital production within a national title or a fast‑paced news environment.
• Deep understanding of The Sun's brand identity and how to translate that DNA for a digital audience.
• Ability to identify content opportunities within Google Discover, search trends, and social platforms.
• Experience using video as a core storytelling tool to enhance digital articles.
• Calmness under pressure with the ability to manage multiple high‑priority tasks simultaneously.
• Full awareness of media law and the IPSO Code of Conduct.
• Flexibility to work shift patterns across seven days in our office.

Company Overview

The Sun is the biggest news brand in the UK, publishing hundreds of stories a day and reaching over 170m unique users digitally every month. Its exclusives set the news agenda and its campaigns have changed the lives of many. Delivering news, entertainment, and sports coverage to millions of readers every day. With a rich history spanning decades, we are dedicated to providing accurate, insightful, and engaging content across print and digital platforms.

The Sun has a mass‑market audience and aims to appeal to a diverse audience in the UK and beyond.

Your Team: The Sun Online is the biggest mobile news brand in the UK – and still growing! – with a young, talented, diverse team who publish the best coverage of news, sport, showbiz, lifestyle and much more. News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our news brands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market‑leading local stations across Ireland. Our world‑famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi‑format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve.

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. Life at News: Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long‑term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy. At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee‑led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre‑existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in‑person/virtual exercise classes
• 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year