Production Journalist: Features & Opinion Desk

Aboutus Ft; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Medical cover

Parental leave

Subsidised gym memberships

Job summary

The Financial Times is seeking a Production Journalist in the Opinion and Analysis department. The successful candidate will work on the FT’s Opinion, Big Read, Work and Careers, Leaders and Letters content both online and in print.

They will collaborate with the opinion editor and chief production journalist, joining a flexible, collegial team and contributing to lively editorial debates that shape FT coverage.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to craft catchy headlines, standfirsts and captions.
• Confidence liaising with columnists and leader writers.
• Ability to edit pages and layouts under tight deadlines.
• Experience editing and revising copy for web and print.
• Familiarity with data presentation and charts for newsroom use.

Responsibilities

• Flair for writing catchy headlines, standfirsts and captions, an eye for punchy print headlines and an ability to set up and edit page layouts
• Confidence to liaise with columnists and leader writers
• Co-operation and flexibility are vital, as are tact and diplomacy, since we work in a close-knit team with a varied workload
• Speed and confidence under deadline pressure
• Innovative proposals to improve reader engagement will be encouraged
• Familiarity with Spark, Methode and Slack, to cover web and print content
• A willingness to produce and edit the FT’s letters section, as required
• Basic page layout skills, or an enthusiasm to learn.
• Confidence using data and charts.

Skills

Headline writing

Liaising with columnists

Page layout

Editing under deadlines

Data and charts

Tools

Spark

Methode

Slack

Job description

The Financial Times is seeking a Production Journalist in the Opinion and Analysis department. The successful candidate will work on the FT’s Opinion, Big Read, Work and Careers, Leaders and Letters content both online and in print.

They will collaborate with the opinion editor and chief production journalist, joining a flexible, collegial team and contributing to lively editorial debates that shape FT coverage.