Reporter

Multiple Brands; Croydon; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company is seeking a reporter for Mortgage Strategy/Mortgage Finance Gazette. The role involves producing quality news content and analysis, driving engagement, and building industry contacts. The ideal candidate will possess a strong journalism background, creativity for content generation, and excellent communication skills.

Benefits

25 days of holiday per year

Health plan

Life assurance

Discounted gym memberships

Rail season ticket loans

Private virtual GP access

Income protection

Continuous learning opportunities

Seasonal flu jabs

Summer and Winter parties

Qualifications

• Evidence of previous interest in journalism required.
• Shorthand is advantageous for this role.
• Ability to write timely and accurate news copy.

Responsibilities

• Produce market-leading content across various formats.
• Maintain a strong network of contacts for exclusive stories.
• Conduct analyses and comment pieces on the market.

Skills

Journalism interest

Writing skills

Interviewing skills

Lead generation

Analytical thinking

Education

NCTJ or Master's degree in Journalism

Job description

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• Brands : Mortgage Strategy/Mortgage Finance Gazette
• Base Location : Remote-Hybrid – mainly remotely, occasional office days. Office location: Croydon, London
• Employment Type : Full time, fixed-term contract until 12th April 2024 (there may be opportunity to further this role within emap after the contract ends)
• Visa sponsorship is not available

Overall Purpose of the Role:

As a reporter for Mortgage Strategy/Mortgage Finance Gazette, you will produce market-leading news, analysis, and features.

You will be a real news hound, seeking out quality stories ahead of the competition, developing a strong understanding of market issues and articulating these across a variety of formats. Your content will drive interest to the brands’ websites and print title. Working with the editor and deputy editor, you will be proactive in coming up with new content ideas that make the publication stand out.

You will be confident in establishing contacts within the mortgage market and get to know the issues that matter most to Mortgage Strategy and Mortgage Finance Gazette’s audiences.

Key responsibilities:

• Maintaining a strong network of contacts to break exclusive news stories
• Respond quickly and accurately to rolling news stories
• Conduct longer-form analyses and comment pieces on the market
• Produce market-leading content across all formats
• Be an ideas generator, constantly looking forward to what would resonate best with our audiences
• Develop advanced news gathering skills like public records searches and legal requests for documents
• Represent our brands in the market and develop a personal brand that improves the title’s exposure

Skills and experience:

• Evidence of previous interest in journalism
• NCTJ or master’s degree in journalism preferrable or equivalent
• Shorthand advantageous
• Talent at writing timely, accurate news copy
• Ability to generate leads through contact base
• Exceptional interviewing and questioning skills
• Ability to produce quality features and long form comment

Core competencies:

• Ability to use appropriate brand writing style
• Collaborative team player
• Shares expertise with team members
• Strategic, critical thinker

Personal Attributes :

• Proactive work ethic
• Professional attitude
• Competitive outlook that strives to be best in our market
• Outgoing and willing to forge new relationships
• Confident speaker
• Constantly curious
• Confident to constructively challenge where necessary

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, includingmanagement 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 behaviors 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 .

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 holiday per year (with the option to buy or sell)
• Health plan
• Life assurance
• Discounted gym memberships
• Rail season ticket loans
• Private virtual GP access
• Income protection and more
• Continuous learning & development opportunities
• Seasonal flu jabs on site
• Summer and Winter parties
• Work from home during August
• In-house Excellence Awards and other innovation projects