Job vacancy: News and politics reporter

Employer: openDemocracy
Location: London-based
Wage: £35,000 – £40,000 every year
Contract: Full-time employment contract
Reviews to: Head of stories

About openDemocracy

openDemocracy is an unbiased worldwide media platform. We produce high-quality journalism which challenges energy, conjures up change and builds management amongst teams underrepresented within the media. Headquartered in London, we now have workforce members throughout 4 continents.

We’re a mission-focused organisation, which suggests we at all times take into consideration the affect our journalism can have. Our investigative journalism has triggered authorized adjustments, parliamentary probes, lawsuits and prison investigations and we additionally provide a wealthy range of tales and views from internationally. We assist voices in any other case excluded from the media to achieve bigger audiences, and we marketing campaign on key tales, pushing for a extra open, democratic and egalitarian world.

Our tales incessantly get picked up throughout the worldwide media, together with The New York Instances, CNN, France 24, El País, Nationwide Geographic, Sky Information, ITV Information, Newsnight, BBC Radio 4’s At the moment, The World This Weekend and File on 4, Each day Mail, Each day Specific, Each day Mirror, Monetary Instances, The Instances, Sunday Instances, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Observer, The Unbiased, Channel 4 Information, LBC and Non-public Eye in 2021 alone.

openDemocracy.internet attracts greater than 11 million visits per 12 months, and we offer a significant area for evaluation, remark, and debate on points starting from democracy, gender and human rights to economics and local weather change. We now have tasks publishing in Russian, Spanish and Portuguese in addition to English. Prior to now two years, we’ve been nominated for and gained a variety of prestigious journalism prizes, from the Gabo Award to the Paul Foot and British Journalism Awards.

Concerning the place

openDemocracy is hiring a information and politics reporter to play a key position in increasing its UK protection, producing authentic journalism that centres voices sidelined by the mainstream media. You’ll have a watch on the nationwide politics agenda to assist inform your work and generate concepts, and the power to work sensitively with contacts to earn their belief and inform their tales respectfully. You’ll work intently with the remainder of openDemocracy with help and mentoring from the information desk, however you may be comfy working independently, and will likely be motivated by creating change for folks and communities throughout the UK along with your journalism.

Function of the position & key duties

• Pitch, analysis and write authentic information tales, options and investigations on a spread of subjects throughout openDemocracy, with a specific give attention to elevating voices and communities which can be sidelined and ignored by the remainder of the mainstream press, and discovering inclusive methods to report on (specifically) UK politics
• Develop and write tales commissioned by the pinnacle of stories, the information and options editor or the editor-in-chief, together with options, investigations and each day and breaking information tales
• Guarantee copy is correct, legally sound, and filed in home fashion
• Monitor the nationwide information and politics agenda to establish areas for brand new tales, pegs for openDemocracy protection or alternatives to chop via with authentic reporting on bigger subjects
• Attend Westminster foyer briefings on an advert hoc foundation as crucial
• Work with the viewers and growth workforce and openDemocracy editors to make sure that tales attain wider audiences, and establish and pursue alternatives for multimedia content material in personal storytelling
• Develop and keep a pipeline of stories tales, together with a various and up-to-date contacts e book, hyperlinks to specialist organisations and curated social media lists
• When crucial, collaborate with different media organisations for the needs of joint investigations or producing affect.

Deliverables

• Develop, write and publish a median of three to 5 correct, legally sound information articles per week, nearly all of which must be unique outright, or include unique angles and sources
• Guarantee sturdy, ongoing sources of story concepts
• Produce not less than one story a month that will get picked up in different media or cited in public life by a politician or nationwide organisation.
• Supply or generate authentic audio, video and pictures alongside written textual content or in isolation via openDemocracy’s social media accounts.

Expertise

• Two years’ reporting expertise on a neighborhood, regional or nationwide newspaper or web site
• NCTJ diploma or equal expertise, together with up-to-date data of UK media regulation and public affairs, and interviewing and information writing abilities
• Demonstrable expertise of growing authentic contacts and elevating voices which can be sometimes sidelined or ignored by mainstream media
• Demonstrable expertise of breaking authentic tales that generate nationwide consideration
• Understanding of the UK media panorama
• Understanding of openDemocracy’s core values and the way in which we generate affect

Tips on how to apply

To use for this position, please submit a CV and canopy letter outlining your motivation and suitability for the position. As well as, your software ought to embrace three examples of tales you’re notably pleased with, and which you’d be comfortable to debate at interview. We’d notably wish to see examples of multimedia protection alongside written copy.

The deadline is Sunday, 1 Might 2022 at 23:59 GMT.

openDemocracy is dedicated to being an equal alternatives employer that values and respects the individuals who work with us. We positively encourage functions from suitably skilled candidates no matter intercourse, race, incapacity, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, faith or perception, marital standing, or being pregnant and maternity. We strongly encourage functions from teams which can be underrepresented within the media.