Digital Sport Reporter Location: London Department: The Sun Salary Details: Not Specified Advertising End Date: 29 Jan 2025 Job Description The Team: The Sun is the biggest news brand in the UK - and still growing - with a talented, diverse team who publish the best coverage of news, sport, lifestyle and showbiz in print and digital. The Sun is looking to bring in a first class sports news reporter to join Fleet Street's most dynamic operation. Purpose of role: To build the audience of The Sun by producing outstanding, engaging sport stories for both print and online. To bring in exclusives and original story ideas, as well as developing breaking stories. Day to day you will: - Cover breaking sports news stories and generate agenda-leading exclusives - Turn around copy and content quickly and accurately; mindful of IPSO and legal issues - Identify stories which will work online, in print and on video and develop them - Work as part of a team and be able to contribute across a range of subjects - Pitch and produce exclusive stories and work up original ideas and features - Have an instinct for how to 'sell' a digital story to get maximum impact on The Sun's platforms and also on social media - Be able to write in a concise and entertaining way in keeping with Sun style but free from cliche - Understand how to recirculate readers within The Sun and keep them engaged with our content - Work with video desk and picture desk to maximum effect - Interview people in a range of different circumstances - Live reporting and ability to work under pressure covering breaking news - Live blog the biggest games and sporting events - Keep newsdesk informed on changes that arise as stories develop What we're looking for from you: - Excellent writing skills with the ability to deliver vibrant, clean copy to very tight deadlines - Reporting experience in a newsroom and ability to keep calm under pressure - Excellent, fast writing and basic subbing skills - Passion for all things sport - Flexible attitude to working hours across seven days - An understanding of The Sun brand, both print and digital - Thorough knowledge of the IPSO Code of Conduct, media law and ethical considerations - Knowledge of social media, SEO and online publishing - Positive can-do attitude and good team player News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. Life at News : At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely. We championdiversity and inclusion (https://www.news.co.uk/diversity-and-inclusion-at-news-uk/), we strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks. We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting theHealth and Wellbeingof our staff. Some of what we offer includes: - A generouspensionscheme with employer contributions of up to 5%; - 25 daysholidayand up to 4volunteeringdays per year; - Maternityleave up to 18 weeks full basic salary &paternityleave up to 2 weeks; - Wide range oftrainingavailable, plus full LinkedIn Learning access. - Private medical insurancecovering pre-existing conditions - Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes - 'Bikes for Work'scheme - Access towellbeing benefitssuch as physio/massage and counselling We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require anyreasonable adjustmentsduring the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate. News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.