Senior Reporter

Senior Reporter required by an exciting travel industry media brand to join their growing team where you will source and write breaking news stories for their website and daily emails. This B2B news provider is incredibly popular amongst its peers in the travel sector and due to their fast growth needs to add a new reporter to their small friendly team. 38-45K. Fully remote role, however candidates need to be based in close proximity to London.

Senior Reporter Responsibilities:
 

• Be an instrumental part of the team that writes daily editorial output 
• Write fast accurate copy, meeting tight deadlines  
• Identification and publication of breaking news stories
• Generation of on and off diary stories
• Publish content utilising WordPress 
• Attendance, networking, and reporting from travel industry events within the UK and also overseas  
• Promote stories and events via social media channels 
• Instigate, Nurture and Grow relationships with PR Managers/Agencies, Travel Firms and Industry Suppliers of all shapes
• Represent the company at Travel Industry events, Conferences (UK and abroad) and on Press Trips
• Host tables at Industry Award evenings  
• Occasional requirement to film travel agents on overseas familiarisation trips

Senior Reporter Experience Required:
 

• 2-3 years’ experience as a Senior Reporter
• NCTJ qualified (inc. shorthand)
• Exceptional news judgement with an eye for a travel industry story
• Strong writing and headline curation skills
• Confident Interviewer
• Au Fait with Social Media
• Needs someone who loves networking in order to discover stories and find out what happening under the surface of the travel trade 
• At ease editing and publishing news content, including sourcing and editing images 
• Happy to attend travel industry events such as press conferences, product launches and other media events, mainly in London but often also in other parts of the UK and overseas

If you have the above requisite experience and you would happy and able to take on this exciting new role please send your CV with a short cover note to mark@candm.co.uk