Senior Journalist Birmingham, England
Job description
Senior Journalist
About Us
Caters Media Group is a content agency with a reputation for creating, producing and licensing incredible content to media outlets, commercial brands, and brand agencies around the world, as well as self-publishing across flagship owned and operated brands.
Our diverse creative team of professional journalists, UGC video specialists and social media experts thrive on bringing amazing stories to life every day, filling the world’s news feed with must-see content.
Additionally, as content producers and aggregators we are dedicated to producing and sharing, original, engaging content for the millions of fans across our owned and operated channels.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our ever-growing editorial team, working with our journalists on the fast-paced content desk, sourcing incredible of-the-moment video-based stories.
The Role
We’re looking for an outstanding journalist who has the drive and determination to make sure they’re the one to break the world’s most-viewed stories.
As a crucial cog in our content team, you’ll be sourcing the must-see stories of the moment before they’ve been seen by the world, providing leading media sites across the globe with their most-viewed content of the day.
The role is fast paced, and you’ll need a careful balance of dogged determination and charm to ensure you can secure the hottest stories from around the world.
You’ll be working alongside a friendly team who pull together to get the work done – but you’ll need to be able to also work semi-independently to source and secure your own content.
You’ll also need to be able to demonstrate great attention to detail, and be able to write crisp, clear copy quickly, as well as ensure all copyright and licensing conditions are met.
About You
The ideal candidate will have significant experience sourcing stories as a journalist, and will be able to produce stories to deadline independently. You’ll need to have a solid understanding of the media landscape and a good commercial understanding of the industry – and be happy pitching stories to publications and negotiating fees.
It’s vital you have a sparkling personality, able to talk round the most reluctant of story subjects while understanding the urgency of viral or breaking news. You’ll be a real people person, who people instantly warm and open up to.
We need someone who can remain calm under pressure, and has a real desire for being the first to a story.
We are a dynamic and hard-working desk and we need someone who is equally hard-working and willing to go the extra mile to get the work done.
As the industry is so multi-faceted, it is an advantage if you have interest and experience in sourcing and securing rights for user-generated video content, social media production or photo/video editing.
Responsibilities
· Spotting amazing stories as they happen and sourcing them before other media outlets.
· Coming up with ideas for stories that will be in demand from our clients and sourcing them
· Pitching stories to content outlets and negotiating fees
· Producing copy to tight deadlines to accompany stories
· Checking that all stories adhere to our strict legal and ethical editorial guidelines
Requirements
· Talented journalist with a great eye for a story with a minimum of one year’s experience on a regional or national news publication
· Understanding of global media outlets and the content they require
· Hardworking, proactively-minded and able to work semi-independently
· Understanding of copyright and media law
· Positive attitude with excellent outreach and interpersonal communication skills
· Happy to work across various time zones when needed in order to achieve success
· Able to work on-site at the company’s headquarters in Birmingham
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £25,000.00-£30,000.00 per year
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Birmingham B18 6BL: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Do you have an NCTJ or equivalent Media Law qualification?
Work Location: One location
Reference ID: Senior Journalist
