Reporter - IP Group Bromley, England
Job description
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a new Reporter in our Intellectual Property team.
Newton Media publishes business-to-business magazines in the legal, finance and insurance industries. The company has an office in Bromley, London, and offers employees a mix of remote working with regular, planned office days.
What’s in it for you
- Financial Reward: Competitive salary, pension contribution of 3%, income protection, death in service insurance, shopping discounts, financial assistance programme, employee referral scheme, Techscheme, season ticket loan
- Work / Life Balance: Unlimited holiday, hybrid working, flexible working, birthday leave
- Health & Wellbeing: Health Shield cash plan, wellbeing benefits (including 24/7 online GP and mental health support including access to face to face counselling), cycle-to-work scheme, partnership with Everymind at Work
How you will contribute to the team
As a reporter you will be in a tight-knit editorial team, working on a range of intellectual property law titles including World IP Review and Life Sciences IP Review.
You will write articles and news for our websites and publications.
You will need to be an excellent writer, ideally with knowledge of data journalism and the life sciences industry.
You will also be comfortable with, or happy to learn, conducting broadcast interviews over a webcam and moderating panel discussions. Training will be provided.
Market outreach is a key element of the role, and you will be expected to be confident in speaking to senior lawyers on a regular basis.
You will need to be organised and understand complex subject matter quickly.
A good sense of humour, honesty, being easy to work with and being a good communicator, particularly when remote working, are traits that will be looked at favourably.
Requirements
About you and what you’ll need
The role would suit someone with one or two years of experience in B2B journalism and editing, but we would also consider recent graduates who can demonstrate particular aptitude.
The successful applicant will:
- Be an excellent writer and have experience working in journalism as a reporter or researcher
- Have a good understanding of data and its utility
- Be organised and comfortable working across multiple projects concurrently
- Be willing to tackle new topics and learn quickly
- Be comfortable with recording interviews over Zoom/Google Hangouts
- Able to get through gatekeepers
- Be a good communicator, especially when remote working
- Be able to manage several tasks concurrently
- Work well in a small team
- Willing and able to travel overseas
- Be self-sufficient in dealing with copy flow and managing workflow
- Able to adjust to tight deadlines
- Be diligent and accurate at all times with excellent attention to detail
- Be able to write features to a high standard
- Able to work autonomously/without “handholding”
- Flexible and agile – able to adapt to new situations and quickly adopt new technologie
You will consider attention to detail a key measure of success and have the ability to communicate with external stakeholders of all levels in a professional and friendly manner. The capability to thrive under pressure will ensure success in this role as working on multiple projects simultaneously will be required.
We are looking for a tenacious team player that is confident in taking ownership of their responsibilities, but even more confident in asking for help when they need it.
What we’d like you to have but won’t be a deal breaker
- Knowledge of the Intellectual Property market
- Knowledge of life sciences and the pharmaceutical industry
- Experience in travelling internationally for work
- Experience of reporting on conferences
- Experience carrying out interviews with senior executives/lawyers
- Knowledge of the editorial process: from concept to delivery to design and production.
The qualifications you’ll need
- Degree level qualification in media, journalism, or related subjects
- Fluent English speaker
- Proficient at using different IT systems including Microsoft Office, Google G-Suite, and able to pick up technology easily
And most importantly…
- Be a friendly and honest person with a cheerful disposition
- Be a good communicator who seeks clarity from colleagues
Benefits
A bit about us and how we can support you
Newton Media has an office in Bromley, but we practice flexible working and also provide the equipment necessary to work from home. We encourage employees to divide their time between home working and office working as they see fit, as long as team objectives are met.
At Newton Media we publish business-to-business magazines and produce events in the legal, finance and insurance sectors for clients worldwide. We’ve a passion for client-satisfaction and dedication to excellence with ambitions to grow from a current team of 40 people to double the size over the next 2-3 years. Demand for our products means we’re still very much at the beginning of our story as we prepare for the inevitable step-up to medium-sized company over the next few years.
In recent years, we have adopted revolutionary new technology in the publishing and events sector to continue to surprise and wow our clients, enabling them to continue to promote their companies in our safe hands.
We believe Newton Media is a great place to work. We choose to only employ nice, friendly, honest, respectful, willing, hardworking and reliable individuals who want to have a voice within their organisation and be accountable for their actions. Successful candidates will be provided with opportunities to make a very real difference to the company's future and will subsequently progress their own career in the process. We encourage employees to demonstrate initiative and enterprise. We continue to strive to be the best employer possible by listening to our employees. We seek employee voice by way of surveys, suggestion boxes, ‘big ideas’, and direct questions to senior management at our ‘Ask Me Anything’ stand-ups.
We allow employees to take ownership of their responsibilities, meaning you will be joining a team of determined individuals who fully commit to projects and enjoy being accountable for their success. We show our appreciation for excellent work by way of regular feedback, monthly appreciation awards and encourage peer-to-peer feedback via a ‘thanks’ system.
In addition to the genuine prospect of building a meaningful career, you will be joining a team of smart, friendly people who know how to have fun while working hard and who support each-other to deliver the excellent products we are known for.
Our employees’ wellbeing is of paramount importance, and we support this by offering a very comprehensive range of benefits including
- Unlimited holiday
- Flexible working to encourage a healthy work/life balance
- Home working
- Employee assistance programme
- GP Anytime
- Online health assessments
- Cashback on health and wellbeing treatments
- Perks member discounts
- Mental health and wellbeing partnership with Everymind at Work
- Income protection scheme
- Birthday leave
We choose to reward our staff with generous remuneration packages, along with an employer/employee contributory pension scheme, interest free season ticket loan, and cycle to work scheme. Should the worst happen whilst you are employed by us, we will ensure your loved one doesn’t suffer the burden of an uncertain financial future by way of a death in service insurance policy of £200,000.
All employees will receive a big Newton Media welcome on their first day with an introduction to all departments and a team lunch to get to know your peers. The onboarding experience will continue throughout your first week, with more in-depth team introductions, so you understand who everyone is, what they do and how they fit in and who you need to go to if you need help. We will ensure you have all the equipment you need to do your job.
We encourage our employees to develop their careers with us as we grow as a company. We provide on the job training, access to professional qualifications and targeted training courses. We love to promote from within and are very open to changes of role and will always encourage employees to apply internally for new roles. We provide employees with a comprehensive career development plan and review process and opportunities for overseas travel. We also offer a ‘finder’s fee’ to any employee that recommends a friend to the company that is successfully recruited and retained.
We are an equal opportunities employer and have policies and procedures in place to protect all staff. We are allies to all diverse communities and constantly seek to learn, understand and improve our diversity and inclusion policy.
We work with local charities by way of fundraising events and encouraging paid volunteering days.
