About the job
Telegraph Media Group is looking for a Features & Lifestyle Publisher to join its London team. This position centers on upholding editorial quality across all Features & Lifestyle desks, ensuring articles are accurate, clear, and ready for a broad digital audience. The role involves sub-editing, constructing articles, and optimizing content for various digital platforms.
Working closely with the Features & Lifestyle Chief Sub, the publisher manages multiple articles each day, balancing precision with creativity. Responsibilities include enhancing stories with multimedia elements such as video, images, and graphics, as well as crafting engaging headlines, standfirsts, and captions. The pace is busy, and meeting tight deadlines is part of the job.
Additional tasks include sub-editing and building newsletters, developing simple visuals, and occasionally covering shifts when needed.
Main responsibilities
- Sub-edit copy for accuracy, clarity, and adherence to house style.
- Raise queries and flag errors with senior publishers and commissioners.
- Write sharp headlines and structure articles for digital platforms.
- Integrate high-quality video, images, and other visual assets.
- Follow direction from the Head of Publishing and Lead Publishers to meet deadlines and priorities, focusing on digital optimization.
- Support Lead and Senior Publishers in collaborating with and constructively challenging commissioners.
- Review performance data to understand digital audience preferences.
- Work with the SEO team to help articles perform well in search results.
- Contribute to long-term series and special project planning and execution.
- Develop new ways of presenting, publishing, and promoting content online, including social collaborations, newsletters, and app sales as needed.
- Source data to commission graphics and illustrations when required.
- Sub-edit, build, and send department newsletters as needed.
- Manage live blogs when required.
Key skills and experience
- Experience sub-editing stories for digital platforms.
- Background in Features & Lifestyle publishing.
- Ability to sub-edit quickly and accurately, with a flair for compelling headlines.
- Strong digital publishing skills, including visual storytelling and a good eye for photography, graphics, and creative presentation.
- Enthusiasm for presenting stories in digital formats.
- Comfort working under pressure and meeting tight deadlines.
- Understanding of SEO and promotional platforms.
- Familiarity with digital content management systems.
- Sound news judgment and strong awareness of current events.
Benefits
The Telegraph Media Group provides a supportive and collaborative workplace, offering a rewarding experience in a demanding editorial setting.
