Journalist Safety & Wellbeing Editor

Guardian News and Media Limited; Greater London; Ibrido; GBP 69.000 - 84.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Six weeks annual leave

Pension with employer contributions

Volunteering days

Payroll giving

Season ticket loans

Life insurance

Income protection

Eye tests

Dental insurance

Enhanced parental leave policies

Wellbeing resources & yoga/pilates

Descrizione del lavoro

Guardian News and Media Limited seeks a journalist wellbeing and safety editor to develop and implement practical strategies protecting Guardian journalists from online and physical harm while providing wellbeing support for work-related matters.

You will lead the central duty-of-care function across UK operations, coordinating with Guardian US and Guardian Australia to elevate best practices and deliver costed recommendations for safer reporting in a hostile climate.

Competenze

• Ability to develop and deliver mental health and wellbeing frameworks and strategies for journalists, ideally within a newsroom environment
• Familiarity with digital threats such as doxing, hacking, and platform-specific privacy settings
• Ability to develop and deliver safety strategies and training for both journalists and managers
• Good knowledge of, or demonstrable interest in, online threats, digital security and relevant policies
• Strong knowledge of physical safety protocols, including risk assessments and health and safety regulations relevant to reporting
• Understanding of the UK and global political landscape and how this might impact staff safety or lead to targeted abuse
• Ideally, experience of dealing with social media platforms and lobbying them to take action when online abuse is posted and shared
• Ability to respond calmly and systematically to high-severity threats or coordinated attacks, with experience in crisis management a benefit
• Extensive experience of working in a fast-paced digital environment with a deep understanding of a newsroom and the environments where journalists work
• Experience of working collaboratively with the media industry, platforms, government, academics and training providers
• Ideally, you'll have a demonstrable ability to bring a diverse perspective to this role.

Mansioni

• Work with managing editors to review and formalise newsroom-wide risk assessment protocols, ensuring rigorous health and safety standards are applied to all reporting assignments, particularly in high-risk environments
• Build a picture of the wellbeing and psychological challenges faced by journalists as a result of their work, consider how we can best support staff, and make costed and practical recommendations, leading on delivery following adoption
• Be a central point for reporting online abuse and physical safety concerns, managing and triaging cases, ensuring affected journalists receive timely support, and coordinating with security, information security and legal teams and managing editors as needed
• Design and implement comprehensive training programmes for journalists and managers (eg, hostile environment training), working in conjunction with the editorial training and development editor
• Develop and deliver training for journalists and managers on digital safety, such as securing social media accounts and preparing for potential responses to our published journalism
• Work with our commercial partners and with social media companies and tech platforms to address specific incidents and push for action on abusive accounts or content as well as systemic improvements to platform safety
• Gain a real-time understanding of the frequency and type of abuse our staff are facing (online and offline) to understand patterns of behaviour and implement relevant safety precautions and training in an informed way.

Descrizione del lavoro

Guardian News and Media Limited seeks a journalist wellbeing and safety editor to develop and implement practical strategies protecting Guardian journalists from online and physical harm while providing wellbeing support for work-related matters.

You will lead the central duty-of-care function across UK operations, coordinating with Guardian US and Guardian Australia to elevate best practices and deliver costed recommendations for safer reporting in a hostile climate.