Chief Reporter

emap; Croydon; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media organization is seeking a sharp and driven Chief Reporter to lead the news agenda for Money Marketing. This senior position involves generating high-impact exclusives, mentoring reporters, and shaping editorial strategy in a hybrid work environment. The role offers a chance to influence the future of financial journalism and contribute to a dynamic team focused on innovation.

Benefits

25 days of annual leave

Health plan

Life assurance

Private virtual GP access

Continuous learning & development opportunities

Discounted gym memberships

Qualifications

• Proven experience in news journalism, ideally in B2B or financial services.
• Excellent writing and editing skills across both news and features.
• Comfortable working across multimedia platforms (audio, video, social).

Responsibilities

• Deliver exclusive, off-diary news stories that set the industry agenda.
• Pitch, write and edit engaging feature content.
• Support the development of a focused audio and video content strategy.

Skills

News journalism

Writing and editing

Digital publishing

SEO

Audience engagement

Job description

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• Brands: Money Marketing
• Base Location: Croydon – Hybrid
• Employment Type: Full time, Permanent

Money Marketing, the award-winning title for the UK’s financial adviser profession, is looking for a sharp, driven and digitally minded Chief Reporter to lead our news agenda and help shape the future of our editorial output.

This is a senior newsroom position with real influence. You’ll be responsible for generating high-impact exclusives, shaping feature content and playing a key role in the evolution of our online-first strategy.

You’ll also help mentor reporters, support content planning and commissioning, and contribute to audio-visual and editorial innovation.

Key responsibilities:

News leadership: Deliver exclusive, off-diary news stories that set the industry agenda. Build and maintain deep contacts within the financial services sector to ensure Money Marketing breaks stories first.

Feature development: Pitch, write and edit engaging feature content. Collaborate with the team on new section ideas and help refine best practices across interviews, opinion pieces and longform journalism.

Editorial strategy: Work with the editor to refresh and align our news and features content in line with our digital transformation. Help streamline workflows and forward planning across the team.

Commissioning and editing: Liaise with freelancers, help manage the feature pipeline and contribute to weekly scheduling and sub-editing.

Digital and multimedia: Support the development of a focused audio and video content strategy, with a view to boosting engagement and quality over quantity. Analyse performance data and shape future output.

• Proven experience in news journalism, ideally in B2B or financial services
• A strong news sense with a track record of breaking exclusives
• Excellent writing and editing skills across both news and features
• Experience commissioning and managing freelance contributors
• An understanding of digital publishing, including content planning, SEO and audience engagement
• Comfortable working across multimedia platforms (audio, video, social)
• A collaborative mindset with a desire to mentor and share knowledge
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines

What we offer

Learning & Development:

At emap, we believe that employee learning and development are the key drivers of our success. To ensure continuous growth and meet the ever-changing demands of the workplace, we provide an environment that fosters continuous development for our employees.

Our employees are encouraged to identify their areas of personal and professional development aligned with our strategic areas, including management development, health, safety & wellbeing, sales, events management, marketing strategy, editorial, and information technology. We have a structured framework designed to help equip our employees with the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviours to excel in their job roles, contributing to achieving our organizational objectives.

To support our employees’ career development, we have designed specialized programs, as well as other stand-alone role-specific and generic courses, under the emap academy.

Equipment

Due to hybrid working laptops are provided.

Place of work

This exciting position is a full-time hybrid role. 2 days in the office, 3 days from home. This could change over time depending on business needs.

Benefits: emap is part of Metropolis Group. Together we are committed to providing a happy and healthy place to work, so we offer fantastic benefits and perks to our employees.

• 25 days of annual leave, with the option to buy or sell additional days
• One additional day of leave per year- Celebration Day
• Health plan
• Life assurance
• Private virtual GP access
• Seasonal flu jabs available at the office
• Continuous learning & development opportunities
• In-house Excellence Awards and other innovation projects
• Discounted gym memberships
• Rail season ticket loans
• Annual Summer & Winter Celebrations
• Work from home during August
• Income protection and more

Privacy: Metropolis Group respects the privacy of every person for whom we have personal data. We comply with data protection legislation such as the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation which regulates the processing of data and ensures that your data is processed fairly and lawfully, is kept secure and only that data necessary for any processing is kept. You can see our privacy policy at www.metropolis.co.uk/privacy.

Diversity and Inclusion: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, age, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.

How to apply: Please submit your CV and covering letter. Due to the volume of applications, we receive, we are unable to give individual feedback at the application stage, however if you are successfully shortlisted you will be contacted within 10 working days of your application.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Writing/Editing, Finance, and General Business

• Industries

  Writing and Editing, Financial Services, and Broadcast Media Production and Distribution

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