News Writer/editor

Body+Soul_, Australia’s number-one health and wellbeing media brand, is on the hunt for a talented News Writer/Editor to join our editorial team. A trusted source for 20 years, _Body+Soul_ is a national print publication appearing every weekend in _The Sunday Telegraph_ (NSW), _Herald Sun_ (Vic), _Sunday Mail_ (Qld and SA), _Sunday Tasmanian_ and _Sunday Times_ (WA), with a rapidly growing audience across digital and social. We are looking for a smart, proactive journalist tapped into the latest developments and main players in health, wellness and fitness, both globally and locally. You will bring your outstanding writing skills, professional networks, newsroom insights, passion for news/health, and strong editorial experience to this exciting full-time role, ensuring _Body+Soul_ breaks stories, drives conversation and sets the national health agenda.

**What’s the role?**
- Research, produce and write timely, news-based content for _Body+Soul_’s weekly print product, and for our online platform as required.
- Build relationships with key industry contacts, stakeholders, experts, talent and PRs to guarantee exclusives and unique/breaking news stories and interviews.
- Monitor national and international news outlets daily, and pitch trending news and feature stories relevant to a mass consumer audience, demonstrating a strong understanding of why these stories matter and how they will translate across print and digital channels.
- Interview key talent, sources and experts for news-based features, crafting smart, service-driven journalism with a positive, engaging and personality-packed tone of voice.
- Hit the ground running every day, scouring the internet, social media and the real world for ideas, leads and stories.
- Pitch talent and ideas with a strong news hook for covers, profiles and editorial content, ensuring _Body+Soul_ helps drive and shape the national health and wellness conversation.

**Who are you?**
- Someone with strong experience in journalism (ideally in a national newspaper, newsroom or digital environment) and a passion for health, wellness, news and breaking trends.
- An exceptional news and features writer with three to five years’ experience in a similar role, and an innate understanding of the unfolding stories, topics and major breakthroughs that will appeal to the _Body+Soul_ audience.
- An ability to unearth fresh, exciting and original news stories weekly, and write thought-provoking long and short-form features, plus opinion pieces when required.
- A wealth of innovative, news-led health and wellbeing ideas, with a gift for writing clever, clickable, attention-grabbing heads and sells that engage our audience immediately.
- Extensive health, wellness and fitness contacts (including experts, PRs, brands, advocacy groups and talent) and the ability to regularly expand that list with new and unexpected sources, talent and leads.
- Able to multi-task and work independently under weekly deadline pressure, and write breaking news stories on very tight turnaround when required.
- Able to file clean, accurate, high-quality copy at a quick pace

**Who are we?**
- Body+Soul _is Australia’s largest health destination. We understand that health means more than fitness and physical wellbeing, but also strength, resilience, mental wellness and relationships.
- Body+Soul_ loves a healthy debate, starts trends and introduces our smart, switched-on audience to ideas they haven’t heard of before.
- At Body+Soul_, readers are empowered with the knowledge and motivation to improve all areas of their life, delivering the best in service journalism to more than two million Aussies.

**News Benefits**

News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities. Thanking them for the great things they do daily, for the greater good of Australia. Our benefits include:

- ** Exclusively ours** - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
- ** Health & wellbeing** - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies
- ** Time off**:

- News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.
- ** Helping you grow** - Development opportunities and recognition
- ** Financial wellbeing** - Support on making the most of your money
- ** Perks & discounts** - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services
- ** Giving back** - Make a difference to our communities.

**What’s next?**
- We know that diversity strengthens our teams and newsrooms as we seek to tell stories that represent the diverse communities of Australia that we serve. Our people make us unique and we all have a story. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, races, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, abilities and gender identities to apply. Inclusion is important to us