AddressThe Irish Sun leaves our rivals standing with agenda-setting showbiz exclusives.
We are looking for someone with experience as a showbiz journalist or working on a celebrity website, brimming with new ideas, has a bulging contacts book and thrives working in an exciting, fast paced newsroom environment.
Day to day you will:
Grow The Irish Sun’s showbiz and TV audience.
Cover breaking showbiz and TV stories.
Keen attention to detail and meticulous fact-checking.
Create strong, punchy content that engages our audience.
Lead and manage a team of online showbiz reporters.
Able to suggest new angles and feature ideas to news/features desks.
Develop content plans and work with SEO and social media teams to reach wide audience.
Must have and maintain a wide knowledge of showbiz and current affairs and trends through reading various titles as well as utilising other media platforms on a daily basis.
Encourage collaboration and support others, actively engaging with people in other teams.
Willingness to work flexible hours over a seven-day rota pattern.
What we are looking from from you:
Unflappable under pressure and delivers work at a consistently high standard.
Proactive and displays a willingness to take on any task.
Positive can-do attitude and good team player.
Takes initiative in order to achieve desired results.
Self-starter, organised and a good problem-solver, able to eliminate obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches.
Can demonstrate an understanding of The Sun brand, both print and digital.
Have a thorough knowledge of the IPSO Code of Conduct, media law and ethical considerations.
To apply you must have the right to work in Ireland.
We are News UK: 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, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
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 champion diversity and inclusion, 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 the Health and Wellbeingof our staff. Some of what we offer includes:
Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions.
Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes.
‘Bikes for Work’ scheme.
Physio/massage.
Counselling.
30 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
Wide range of trainingavailable, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
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 any reasonable adjustments during 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.
