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About the Role

Digital Health, a news, events, and network business focused on healthcare IT and digitisation in the UK, specifically within the NHS, is seeking a news editor. This role involves hands-on reporting, editorial leadership, and sub-editing, reporting to Digital Health's editor and line-managing the team's news reporter.

Responsibilities

Manage the news list and news schedule, with three stories published each weekday.
Maintain the news list with details of the topic, assigned writer, deadline and planned publication date.
Maintain the schedule even when certain stories don't materialise or are delayed.
Line-manage the team's news reporter.
Assist the news reporter's continued development, offer support and constructive feedback, and guide work.
Source stories and build contacts.
Identify stories of likely interest to our audience and to key contacts and opinion leaders.
Assign stories and manage deadlines.
Be fully responsible for assigning stories to team members, setting clear deadlines, and helping ensure those deadlines are met.
Write high-quality news stories, tailored to the audience and delivered on deadline.
Sub-edit news stories written by other editorial colleagues, recognising issues and correcting them as needed.
Publish content via our content management system (WordPress).
Upload content and images, tag correctly, and schedule publication.
Draft and publish social media posts.
Support the production of weekly newsletters.
Support the news reporter with the Digital Health podcast as required.
Potentially appear as a guest or host and/or support the development of topics and recruitment of guests.
Support the editor with non-news content as required, including opinion and commercially backed editorial content.
Potentially edit, commission, or project manage non-news content.
Work collaboratively with fellow members of the editorial team.
Support colleagues and share knowledge as needed to ensure every team member can work to the best of their ability.
Work collaboratively with teams within the business.
Share knowledge with colleagues and learn from other teams to support the news team's work.
Represent Digital Health at events, meetings and press conferences.
Attend our annual conferences, Digital Health Rewired and Digital Health Summer Schools.

Requirements

Superior writing and editing skills coupled with strong news judgement, honed in journalism and/or communications or content settings.
Excellent organisational and scheduling skills, juggling multiple deadlines simultaneously while maximising the effective use of one's own time as well as that of editorial colleagues.
Ability to quickly edit copy, spotting and correcting any issues with grammar, spelling, punctuation, house style and accuracy.
Proven ability to maintain regular lines of communication with editorial colleagues, even when working remotely.
Comfortable feeding back to writers about edits, offering explanations and constructive support where required.
Demonstrable ability to build strong working connections with a range of internal and external colleagues and contacts, through both virtual and face-to-face meetings.
Happy to be hands-on, lending support to colleagues as part of a small editorial team.
Interest in healthcare and in IT, and the desire to continuously build and refine knowledge and contacts in these areas.
Prior experience of formal line management, or of informal management or mentorship of junior colleagues (desirable).
Experience in using content management systems (desirable).
Experience of working on non-news content, specifically features, opinion pieces and commercially-backed content (desirable).
Experience of writing on complex topics or sectors (desirable).
Knowledge or experience of healthcare and/or IT (desirable).
May have held an editing role or be looking to step up from a reporting job.

Skills

Journalism
Communications
Content creation
Editorial leadership
Sub-editing
News reporting
Content management systems (WordPress)
Social media posting
Newsletter production
Podcast support
Project management
Collaboration
Organizational skills
Scheduling
Writing
Editing
News judgment
Grammar
Spelling
Punctuation
House style
Accuracy
Communication
Building working connections
Interest in healthcare
Interest in IT

Location

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Several years of experience in journalism, communications, or content

About the Company

CloserStill Media is a dynamic B2B events and communities business operating across five regions, powering over 200 market-leading events, publications and brands across Business Technologies, Healthcare, Learning, HR & Education, and Future Transport & Infrastructure.
Digital Health is part of CloserStill Media, focusing on healthcare IT and digitisation in the UK, specifically within the NHS.
The Digital Health online news service publishes around three stories daily, keeping UK and NHS digital healthcare leaders informed.

Equal Opportunity

CloserStill Media embrace diversity in all its forms and are committed to continuing to develop a diverse and inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment based on merit without attention to age, ethnicity, religion or beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status or disability status.
We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage, don't hesitate to get in touch with our HR team at hr@closerstillmedia.com.