Weekend Editor

Insider Business; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Weekend Editor to lead its UK newsroom's weekend coverage. This role involves assigning and editing compelling business stories, ensuring high-quality reporting standards, and collaborating with a global team. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, possess exceptional editing and communication skills, and have a keen news judgment. This hybrid position requires being in the office up to three days a week, offering a unique opportunity to shape engaging content that resonates with a diverse audience. Join a company that values diversity and innovation in storytelling.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Comprehensive health benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Life assurance coverage

Employee assistance programme

Industry-leading family leave policies

Qualifications

• Proven experience in editing business stories for digital publications.
• Excellent editing, writing, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive coverage of major stories on weekends and manage daily assignments.
• Train and coach team members to enhance their skills.

Skills

Editing skills

Writing skills

Communication skills

News judgment

Attention to detail

Team management

Analytical skills

Job description

Business Insider is seeking an Editor in our UK newsroom to lead our weekend team and run our weekend coverage on a Wednesday-Sunday schedule.

The Role & Team:

We’re looking for a weekend editor who is excited to drive BI’s coverage on Saturdays and Sundays, and to help out across the team for three days during the week. As Weekend Editor, you'll work closely with our UK weekend reporters to assign and edit stories tailored to our target audience.

The weekend team covers business news in a conversational and compelling way for our audience, who want fresh angles they can’t get anywhere else on topics important to our readers, such as finance, the workplace, Trump and DOGE, military strategy, and entertainment.

The Weekend Editor should be excited to juggle a range of stories — from scoops to breaking news to analysis. They should be prepared to jump into the news and write stories themselves on occasion.

The Weekend Editor will also work on executing audience strategy, including curating the homepage, sending push alerts and programming across BI’s platforms.

This role is varied, fast-paced, and will require you to coordinate with Business Insider's global newsroom. The role is a hybrid position, with the Weekend Editor expected to come into our Old Street-based office up to three days a week. This role reports into the Senior Editor for business news.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive coverage of big stories on Saturdays and Sundays, and assign and edit story ideas throughout the week for day-to-day assignments as well as bigger projects.
• Ensure stories are well framed and structured, in line with Business Insider reporting standards, and work with executive editors and legal to publish sensitive stories.
• Support in managing Owned & Operated operations and strategy, including homepage curation and approving and sending push alerts.
• Set clear goals for direct reports and provide feedback.
• Train and coach fellows and reporters to develop in their skills and careers.

The ideal candidate has:

• Proven experience covering and editing business stories for a digital publication.
• Great news judgment.
• Experience working at speed.
• Excellent editing, writing and communication skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• A strong sense of what makes a great story.
• The drive to manage and motivate a team.
• Experience using analytics to help inform coverage.
• A desire to work collaboratively with the team in the UK and wider global newsroom.

Salary & Benefits:

• Competitive salary based on skills, experience, and competencies.
• Hybrid working with three days required in the office.
• Generous holiday allowance including Bank Holidays.
• Comprehensive health benefits, including Private Medical Insurance and Health Cash Plan.
• Life assurance coverage for added peace of mind.
• Employee assistance programme for mental health and well-being support.
• Industry-leading family leave policies and access to our family benefits platform, Maven.

Are you passionate about this opportunity, but worried that you don’t have 100% of the experience we’re looking for? We still want to hear from you! Apply online and let us know why you would make a great addition to Business Insider.

About Business Insider:

Business Insider is a global journalism company that covers the world of business, tech, innovation, and beyond. With headquarters in New York and offices in San Francisco, London, Belfast, and Singapore, we reach an audience of more than 375 million with storytelling that’s fascinating, unexpected, and always helpful.

As a company, we strive to be inspiring and effective, we value Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. Our company motto is “get better every day,” which means we value all people. Diversity reflects the different life experiences, identities, and perspectives that make each of us unique. For more information on our DEI mission click here.