We are seeking a passionate and experienced News Editor to join our team.
As the News Editor for Drive, you will have a deep connection with the consumer and their values regarding automotive news, insights, and trends. Your role will involve leading a high-performing news team, ensuring the delivery of quality content to brief and timeline, within a dynamic and fast-paced setting. Reporting to the Director of Content, you will have a proven ability to plan well and problem-solve as required to meet business objectives.
As an exceptional content creator yourself, you will be a seasoned journalist with a keen interest in the automotive industry. Leveraging your extensive expertise and established reputation, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining our publication's high standards of quality and credibility.
Responsibilities include but aren't limited to:
- Manage and lead a high-performance news team that can deliver quality content to deadline, in a fast-paced environment.
- Act as a content innovator and source of ideas, whilst maintaining a mix of breaking, insight and trending news content.
- Critically analyse and interpret audience and engagement data to inform content ideation and creation to best serve the audience’s needs.
- Create and deliver accurate and timely written, video, audio and photographic content for publication.
- Work with a mix of in-house journalists and contributor journalists as required to deliver on targets.
- Provide clear, direct and timely feedback to journalists including the ability to spot deficiencies in copy and guide them accordingly.
- Understand and implement cutting edge search engine optimisation (SEO) strategies to maximise news content visibility and organic traffic.
- Work with Publishing and Marketing teams to ensure content engagement opportunities are maximised across social media and Nine.
