Overview:
Haymarket’s new brand, In.Comms, a sister publication to our long-standing title PRWeek, is looking for a talented Senior Staff Writer!
In.Comms will be the go-to resource for in-house communications professionals.
The senior writer will play a key role in this soon-to-be-launched new title for in-house comms professionals. This includes delivering daily news, features and other compelling content on the brand’s website, managing the production of its daily and specialist newsletters and posting to social media, as well as contributing ideas and articles across all channels. This is a role for an ambitious journalist, potentially in their second or third journalistic role, who has a keen, enquiring mind, an interest in politics, economics and business, and the drive to seek out exclusives and award-winning articles.

Responsibilities:

• Writing daily online news, features, interviews, or other articles
• Researching potential articles and building knowledge to contribute ideas that develop the news agenda
• Commissioning and editing articles from freelancers and opinion writers
• Using the in-house software programme to build daily email newsletters, and posting content to social media
• Attending events and building contacts among the communications profession, and wider business world
• Getting involved in the production of podcasts by contributing ideas and/or joining interviews
• Monitoring the editorial email inbox, answering/forwarding queries as appropriate, and undertaking admin tasks.

Skills / Experience / Knowledge / Minimum Criteria:

• A relevant degree or equivalent experiences, such as NCTJ
• Strong writing and copy-editing skills, excellent attention to detail and the ability to produce accurate content to tight deadlines
• A strong interest in news and current affairs, and particularly the business world
• Excellent knowledge of social media and digital journalism
• The ability to multitask, manage own workload and ‘muck in’ when required
• Solid communication and organisational skills

• Writing daily online news, features, interviews, or other articles
• Researching potential articles and building knowledge to contribute ideas that develop the news agenda
• Commissioning and editing articles from freelancers and opinion writers
• Using the in-house software programme to build daily email newsletters, and posting content to social media
• Attending events and building contacts among the communications profession, and wider business world
• Getting involved in the production of podcasts by contributing ideas and/or joining interviews
• Monitoring the editorial email inbox, answering/forwarding queries as appropriate, and undertaking admin tasks