Deputy Property Editor

2 days ago

North Sydney, Australia SMH & The Age Full time

**Company Description**
Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company - the home of Australia’s most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want - across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital.

Our Purpose: We shape culture by sparking conversations, challenging perspectives, and entertaining our communities.

We bring people together by celebrating the big occasions and connecting the everyday moments. Australia belongs here. We bring our purpose to life via three shared values: We walk the talk, turn over every stone and keep it human.

The property team at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age is looking for a Deputy Property Editor who will help shape our coverage and assume a leadership role in the team.

This is a varied role that includes both writing and editing, as well as helping curate a mix of stories covering everything from house price movements to buying and selling trends, the rental crisis, the best suburbs and the prestige property market.

Reporting to the national property editor, this is a Tuesday to Saturday position that includes editing auction coverage on Saturdays, regularly working the 11am-7pm Saturday shift.

Day to day you will:

- Pitch original stories for self and others, including national and local stories, daily and longer-term projects
- Write news leads and liaise with the national property editor on copy flows
- Maintain relationships with contacts and generating story ideas from contacts
- Work with data with a high degree of accuracy and clarity
- Absorb and retain a large volume of news and information about the property market
- Consider feedback from analytics in shaping story selection
- Manage multiple competing deadlines
- Edit colleagues’ copy when required
- Edit Saturday auction coverage, including liaising with reporters on auction selection, briefing weekend editors and homepage editors, editing copy, and complaint resolution

**Qualifications**
What we would like to see:

- A keen interest in the property market, and either a broad knowledge of the topic and a range of contacts - or a willingness to learn fast
- Newsroom experience and a track record as a self-starter who can work independently, generate ideas for self and others, report and write stories with complexity and depth
- Strong news judgement and an ability to problem-solve
- Experience meeting deadlines and working with multiple stakeholders
- Excellent copy and strong attention to detail
- Some experience editing others’ copy and writing headlines, or an enthusiasm to learn

**Additional Information** Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**:
**Disclaimer**:We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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