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About the Role
We are seeking an ambitious and driven Deputy News Editor to commission and edit world-class science and technology news stories, shape news coverage and strategy, and support reporters. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of publishing exclusive and breaking news, possess strong digital experience, and demonstrate strategic thinking and substantial management experience to foster ambitious journalism.
Responsibilities
- Commission, edit and publish world-class science and technology news stories
- Work closely with reporters on original, agenda-setting journalism, including exclusives, investigations, breaking news, analysis and off-diary stories
- Line manage reporters, providing regular feedback and support
- Help set the overall editorial direction of the news team, identifying key and emerging areas we should go big on
- Ensure we have must-read news stories every day
- Be a senior editorial leader within the editorial team
- Deputise for Executive Editor/News Editor, taking overall responsibility for the news team as required
- Experiment with different storytelling formats and approaches
- Maintain New Scientist’s high standards and editorial voice
- Be driven by the data, using analytics to make sure we are producing the engaging journalism that our audience and subscribers want
Requirements
- Significant experience editing science and/or technology journalism (not academic journals or branded/marketing content)
- Significant experience setting strategy and direction for editorial teams
- Significant experience commissioning and editing exclusive, agenda-setting journalism
- Significant experience breaking news and covering major stories
- Significant experience managing and mentoring journalists
- Significant experience using audience data to inform editorial decisions
- Significant experience working for a high-quality journalism brand
- Understanding of what makes a New Scientist news story
- Understanding of the most important topics in science and technology right now
- Understanding of how to read scientific research and work out what’s important for a general audience
- Understanding of what makes content premium
- Understanding of modern digital publishing and workflows
- Understanding of libel law and how it relates to journalism
- A degree in a STEM subject (desirable)
Skills
- Exceptional news judgement
- Strong editorial instincts
- Excellent writing skills
- Excellent editing skills
- Ambitious
- Highly driven
- Proactive
- Ability to take action and get things done
- Strategic thinking
- Big picture thinking
- Highly collaborative
- Extremely high standards
- Willing to challenge the consensus
- Willing to take calculated risks
- Organised
- Efficient
- Appreciates the art of storytelling
- Appreciates crafting a narrative
- Communicative
- Enjoys working with a team
- Good interpersonal skills
- Able to get the best out of writers
- Able to nurture new talent
- Adaptable
- Open to new ways of working/ideas
Location
- New Scientist Headquarters, HSK, London, W8 5HY
Work Type
- Full Time
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Substantial management experience
Education Level
- A degree in a STEM subject (desirable)
Benefits
- 25 days holiday increased +1 day a year up to 30 days
- Pension Plan (4% employee contribution, 4% Company contribution)
- Life cover under the Pension Plan of up to 4x your basic salary
- DMGT Discounts
- Subsidised canteen
- Onsite gym (Northcliffe House only)
- Onsite nurse and GP clinics (Northcliffe House only)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Healthcare with Healix
- Employee Assistance Support
- Invites to NS Events
About the Company
- New Scientist is a magazine brand for the insatiably curious, asking the big-picture questions about life, the universe and what it means to be human. From artificial intelligence to climate change, the latest innovations in health to the mysteries of quantum physics and the human mind, New Scientist covers the ideas and discoveries that matter.
- Since our publication was founded in 1956 for “all those interested in scientific discovery and its social consequences”, it has expanded to include newsletters, videos, podcasts, holidays and live events.
- Our headquarters are in London, UK, and we also have staff in the US and Australia.
Equal Opportunity
- New Scientist is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applications to New Scientist will receive due consideration regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
- We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.
- We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.