Content Editor - Liverpool Echo

TN United Kingdom; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Client:

Location:

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

112b49637585

Job Views:

3

Posted:

18.04.2025

Expiry Date:

02.06.2025

Job Description:

Company Description

We are looking for a Content Editor to join the Liverpool Echo. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Content Editor looking for a new challenge or a senior reporter keen to take the next step in their journalism career.

You will play a key role in our strategy to continue to grow our audience at scale, deepen our relationship with existing readers, and reach underserved communities. The ideal candidate will be confident taking the lead on big breaking news coverage, brimming with story ideas, and a creative and innovative thinker.

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.

This role is based in our Liverpool city centre Hub and we are therefore open to candidates based in and around Liverpool.

Job Description

What will the role involve?

You will support a team of reporters to deliver great content, including words, pictures, video, data, and interactives, 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 and lifestyle 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 great 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, focusing on newsletters and looking for opportunities to maximise our audience loyalty. This role will involve working shifts on a rota basis including evenings and weekends, so a flexible approach is required.

Qualifications

Who are we looking for?

You are an experienced senior journalist with your Senior NCTJ/NQJ Level 6 journalism (or in-house equivalent) qualification or relevant time served 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, Instagram, and TikTok. 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 excellent local knowledge 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 will match contributions up to 6%
• 25 days holiday per year when you join. After three, five, and ten years of 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 of 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 is 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

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.