Features & Lifestyle Publisher: 4 month fixed-term contract

The Telegraph; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media organization is seeking a Publisher to ensure high-quality Telegraph content. Responsibilities include sub-editing and building articles across Features & Lifestyle, ensuring clarity and accuracy. Candidates should have strong digital publishing skills, understand SEO, and possess a keen news sense. This role offers development opportunities in a fast-paced environment, with benefits that support lifestyle choices and work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Medical cover

Parental leave

Life assurance

Season ticket loans

Qualifications

• Experience sub-editing stories for digital platforms is essential.
• Must have a strong news sense and judgment.

Responsibilities

• Sub copy to ensure accuracy and clarity.
• Raise questions and flag errors with senior publishers.
• Ensure headlines are sharp and digital friendly.
• Support collaboration with publishers and commissioners.

Skills

Sub-editing stories for digital platforms

Working in Features & Lifestyle

Quick and accurate subbing

Digital publishing skills

Visual storytelling

SEO understanding

Content management systems familiarity

Strong news sense

Job description

Role purpose and overview

Publishers ensure that Telegraph content is of the highest quality. You will sub-edit and build articles across all Features & Lifestyle desks, interrogating copy and ensuring it is tight and accurate, and optimise pieces for audience, platforms and search.

Working in a fast-moving and often pressurised environment, you will be capable of publishing numerous articles a day with accuracy and flair. You will use video, pictures and graphics creatively to make articles visually engaging and should be able to write strong headlines and brilliant standfirsts and captions.

Publishers also sub, build and send newsletters, and develop simple visuals. The role also involves acting up on the rota as required.

This role will report into the Features & Lifestyle Chief Sub.

Key responsibilities

• Sub copy to ensure it is accurate, clear and conforms to house style.
• Proactively raise questions and flag errors with senior publishers and commissioners.
• Ensure headlines and furniture are sharp and digital friendly.
• Make use of the best video, pictures and other visual assets.
• Follow direction of Head of Publishing and Lead Publishers to ensure priorities and deadlines are met and that content is optimised for a digital audience.
• Support Lead and Senior Publishers in challenging and collaborating with commissioners.
• Have an understanding of performance data to learn what works best for a digital audience.
• Work with SEO to ensure articles perform across search.
• Execute and follow plans set for longer term series and special projects.
• Generate creative solutions to presenting, publishing and promoting content online (e.g. social collabs, app sells, newsletters etc.) when required.
• Source data to commission graphics and illustrations when required.
• Sub, build and send department newsletters when required.
• Run live blogs when required

Key skills

• Experience sub-editing stories for digital platforms.
• Experience of working in Features & Lifestyle.
• Quick, accurate subbing and writing of headlines.
• Digital publishing skills including knowledge of visual storytelling and a brilliant eye for photography as well as creative flair for info boxes, polls, graphics, etc.
• Enthusiasm and imagination for presenting stories digitally.
• Able to respond well under pressure and adhere to strict deadlines.
• Understanding of SEO and promotion platforms.
• Familiarity with using content management systems for digital publishing.
• Strong news sense and judgment.

Our benefits

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast‑paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work‑life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio‑economic background, religion and/or belief.

We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.