As Network Content Editor you’ll work with our content desk to spot trends, ensure our stories are told in an engaging way, look for registration opportunities and much more.
We’re also looking for four trainee Network writers to join our team, writing on the biggest UK and World news topics and creating original, compelling stories which help our regional news brands remain an essential part of our readers’ daily lives.
Working with more than 30 of Reach’s Live brands, Night Owl is a multiskilled team supporting news desks across the country, spotting breaking news, writing high impact network stories and helping with newsdesk responsibilities – we do it all.
This involves a lot of liaising with editors across our Live network to decide how my team can best support each site and their individual needs.
I then qualified as a senior before moving into a Content Editor role, I then moved from Somerset Live to Bristol Live before joining the network Night Owl team as SEO Editor.
You’ll be Overnights Editor throughout the night for our entire Live network and Irish and Scottish editorial operations too, leading the overnights team and ensuring when the news breaks – no matter what time – we’re there.
I’m a digital publishing editor, part of Network’s Daybreakers/Night Owl team that supports Reach’s Live network of regional websites through the day and into the evening, from 6am until midnight.
The best thing about working for the Network team is that you come into contact with most areas of Reach’s regional online operation, in a unique way that is very different from working for one local publication, or even a cluster of sites.
I held various roles there over the course of around 10 years, including health reporter, lifestyle specialist and acting head of content, as well as writing for sister titles such as The Yorkshire Post and The i.
Dealing with videos from murder scenes, editing taste tests from the finest champagne to seeing if rhubarb works as a pizza topping, and working out what the best lines are in the latest Commons speech on coronavirus means working for the central video team is one of the most varied jobs in the business.
I am one one of six people working in the Central Trending Video Team, led by Head of Video, Ben Hurst.
As video continues to be an important part of our digital storytelling toolkit, the Central Trending Video Team’s duty in providing high standard video editing and video storytelling support to our entire live network couldn’t be more crucial – and working in such a team has always been a big career goal of mine.
Making the decision on what to do at university was easy – with three years of hard work landing me with a first class BA degree in media and communication specialised in journalism at BCU.
Whether it’s the couple from Walsall finding their dream home on Escape to the Country or the student from Gateshead smashing it on The Chase there’s always that delight at seeing someone from where you’re from on the TV.
As a Trainee Network Content Writer, my time is predominantly spent putting together national, international and trending news stories that are relevant to our regional audiences across the UK.
The best thing about working within the Network team is the variety of content I get to produce.
Working closely with the Network teams editors, the Audience and Content Director and Head of Live Local Brands for Reach PLC’s Live network you’ll help to shape the days news agenda and audience focus for our newsrooms across England and Wales.
We’re not just about telling stories, we also want to ensure people stay with our websites for longer and read more stories.
One minute we can be making footage of horrific crimes safe to publish so we can help police solve them, the next grabbing the latest newsworthy moment or funny bit from GMB or This Morning.
We could be ensuring the biggest stories across our network have the right video in them, or we could be making social video, or discussing with newsrooms how to get the video that the story needs.
I did work experience at the Daily Post in north Wales, then did features shifts over the summer, and freelanced at the MEN for a year before getting a full time staff job on web production – and I’ve worked for Reach ever since.