Location: MailOnline Head Office – London
Position: Initial 3 month FTC, with a view to being extended
We're looking for a talented and driven Writer/Researcher to join The Daily Mail's Shows Team, working on our growing slate of high-impact, long-form YouTube programming, including hit series like Battle Board, War on Tape, and Geopolitics on Tape. These shows explore modern conflict, military strategy, and global power struggles in a premium, documentary-style format.
Key Responsibilities:
* Sourcing and verifying UGC video and archival footage, including agencies.
* Assist in writing compelling and well-structured scripts for our flagship shows.
* Compile detailed and accurate research briefs to support production and editorial teams.
* Source, collect, and fact-check B-roll and archival footage.
* Work closely with producers, editors, and animators to ensure historical and geopolitical accuracy.
Essential Skills and Experience:
* Strong background in journalism, history, international relations or related field.
* Deep understanding of current geopolitics, military affairs, and world news.
* Excellent writing and research skills, with attention to factual accuracy and storytelling.
* Working knowledge of Adobe Premiere Pro or similar editing software.
* Experience writing scripts to images.
* Familiarity with visual storytelling and documentary production workflows.
About Us
dmg media maintains an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most. Its brands Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, Metro, The i Paper, MailOnline, and Mail+ reach more than 9 million people daily in the UK.
Its global newsroom of journalists, formidable story-getting power, and breadth of content formats deliver highly engaging, trusted content to loyal and new audiences, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The Mail brand reaches three in five Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country. It is the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 28 million total followers and nearly 45 billion views in the past year.
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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.
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