Assistant News Editor

5 months ago

Sydney, Australia Guardian News & Media Full time

We are seeking an Assistant news editor working alongside other desk editors, the assistant news editor will be responsible for planning, commissioning and editing news stories for Guardian Australia

**You'll work on /In this role you will**
- Help set Guardian Australia's news agenda by proposing original ideas for news and feature stories
- Commission reporters and edit news stories for the site
- Monitor news sources, eg wire services, news websites, social media and broadcast media for breaking news
- In conjunction with other editors, ensure headlines, pictures and placement give the best possible presentation to stories on the site
- Recognise potential legal issues and ensure they are resolved prior to publishing
- Work with reporters on planning and story ideas, and deliver feedback
- Devise innovative and interesting ways of telling stories

**You'll bring.**
- A passion for independent journalism and an understanding of our editorial code and values

**Knowledge and experience**
- Good grasp of national and international news
- Excellent understanding of diversity and inclusion issues
- Specialist knowledge in a commissioning area would be an advantage
- Experience of working in a fast-changing and high-pressure environment, preferably on a news website
- Knowledge/awareness of the demands of digital journalism
- Significant journalistic experience
- Good understanding of Guardian values
- Good understanding of media law

**Skills / behaviours**
- Good writing, commissioning and editing skills
- Good news judgement
- Speed and accuracy, with high attention to detail
- Good interpersonal skills; persuasive and decisive
- Efficient team player who is flexible and adaptable
- Confident, assertive and diplomatic and open to challenge and correction

**About working at Guardian Australia**
- Hybrid working
- Employee assistance program (EAP) to support employee wellbeing
- Paid volunteer leave
- Dedicated diversity and inclusion employee groups, action plans (including our Reconciliation Action Plan) and cultural competency training
- Guardian digital subscription

For more information please view the full job description here.

This role is being offered on a 12-month contract working across a seven-day roster with flexible hours but predominantly afternoon and evening editing work.

We believe that our role in the Australian media is to give a voice to the most marginalised people in society and value and respect all differences in all people — including people of colour, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from different social classes, people with diverse gender and sexual identities, and people with disabilities (seen and unseen). We believe that these communities must be centred in the work we do, bringing a new perspective and a diversity of thought. We also encourage flexible working and aim to create a work environment where all employees feel respected.

Job Number

341

Location

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Business Area

Editorial

Employment Type

Full time

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