Senior Reporter

emap; Croydon; Hybrid; GBP 28,800 - 35,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days of annual leave

Health plan

Life assurance

Private virtual GP access

Discounted gym memberships

Income protection

Continuous learning & development opportunities

Job summary

A leading media company is looking for a Senior Reporter in Croydon to drive their news agenda within the financial services sector. The role involves delivering exclusive news stories, feature development, and supporting digital content strategies. Applicants should have a strong background in B2B news journalism and excellent writing skills. This full-time, hybrid position offers a salary of up to £32,000 depending on experience.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in B2B news journalism, ideally in financial services.
• A strong news sense with a track record of breaking exclusives.
• Excellent writing and editing skills across both news and features.
• Experience commissioning and managing freelance contributors.
• An understanding of digital publishing, including content planning, SEO and audience engagement.
• Comfortable working across multimedia platforms (audio, video, social).
• A collaborative mindset with a desire to mentor and share knowledge.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Deliver exclusive, off-diary news stories that set the industry agenda.
• Pitch, write and edit engaging feature content.
• Work with the editor to refresh and align our content.
• Liaise with freelancers and manage the features pipeline.
• Support the development of a focused audio and video content strategy.
• Assist in developing ideas for social media engagement.

Skills

B2B news journalism

Strong news sense

Excellent writing

Experience commissioning

Digital publishing understanding

Multimedia platform comfort

Collaborative mindset

Ability to work under pressure

Job description

Overview

This range is provided by emap. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

• Brand: Money Marketing
• Base Location: Croydon, London
• Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent, Hybrid
• Salary: up to £32,000 DOE

About our company:

Trading as emap for its B2B division, Metropolis International is a fast-growing business, privately owned Media Group with over £50m of annual revenue, structured in two divisions – consumer media, and business-to-business media. In both parts of the business, we run print magazines, digital content and both face-to-face and virtual awards, conferences, and other events. Metropolis is actively looking at acquiring more media businesses. We employ over 480 people in offices in Croydon, Fleet Street and Dublin.

About the brand and the role:

Money Marketing, the award-winning title for the UK’s financial adviser profession, is looking for a sharp, driven and digitally minded Senior Reporter to drive our news agenda and help shape the future of our editorial output.

This is a key newsroom position with real influence and scope to progress. You’ll be responsible for generating high-impact exclusives, shaping feature content and playing a key role in the evolution of our online-first strategy.

You’ll also support content planning and commissioning and contribute to audio-visual and editorial innovation.

Key responsibilities:

• News leadership: Deliver exclusive, off-diary news stories that set the industry agenda. Build and maintain deep contacts within the financial services sector to ensure Money Marketing breaks stories first.
• Feature development: Pitch, write and edit engaging feature content. Collaborate with the team on new section ideas and help with interviews, opinion pieces and longform journalism.
• Editorial strategy: Work with the editor to refresh and align our content in line with our digital transformation. Help streamline workflows and forward planning across the team.
• Commissioning and editing: Liaise with freelancers, help manage the features pipeline and contribute to weekly scheduling and sub-editing.
• Digital and multimedia: Support the development of a focused audio and video content strategy, with a view to boosting engagement.
• Social media: Assist the digital content editor in developing ideas for social media engagement across our platforms.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience in B2B news journalism, ideally in financial services
• A strong news sense with a track record of breaking exclusives
• Excellent writing and editing skills across both news and features
• Experience commissioning and managing freelance contributors
• An understanding of digital publishing, including content planning, SEO and audience engagement
• Comfortable working across multimedia platforms (audio, video, social)
• A collaborative mindset with a desire to mentor and share knowledge
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines

You’ll be joining a small, close-knit editorial team with a big reputation. We break stories that matter, influence policy and give a voice to financial professionals. This is a chance to put your stamp on a respected title as we evolve into a digital-only, multiplatform brand.

What we offer

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, including management 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 behaviours 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 annual leave, with the option to buy or sell additional days. Pro-rata for part-time employees.
• One additional day of leave per year- Celebration Day
• Health plan
• Life assurance
• Private virtual GP access
• Seasonal flu jabs available at the office
• Continuous learning & development opportunities
• In-house Excellence Awards and other innovation projects
• Discounted gym memberships
• Rail season ticket loans
• Annual Summer & Winter Celebrations
• Work from home during August
• Income protection and more

Privacy: Metropolis Group respects the privacy of every person for whom we have personal data. We comply with data protection legislation such as the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation which regulates the processing of data and ensures that your data is processed fairly and lawfully, is kept secure and only that data necessary for any processing is kept. You can see our privacy policy at www.metropolis.co.uk/privacy.

Diversity and Inclusion: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, age, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.

How to apply: Please submit your CV and covering letter. Due to the volume of applications, we receive, we are unable to give individual feedback at the application stage, however if you are successfully shortlisted you will be contacted within 10 working days of your application.

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