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If you have a head for headlines and can perform well under pressure, listen up!
The Sun's Fabulous magazine is looking for an enthusiastic Sub-Editor who doesn't shy away from responsibility and can work across everything from sensitive real-life stories to fashion, food and fact-packed health features.
Role Description
Ideally, you'll have experience of subbing on women's or lifestyle titles and a vice-like grasp of English grammar, spelling and punctuation. You'll understand the Fabulous reader and contribute ideas for creative captions and sells. You won't be afraid to ask questions and work with the team to make the magazine the best it possibly can be, and if the proverbial hits the fan, you keep calm and carry on.
Key responsibilities:
- Ensure copy is error-free, factually correct, adheres to Fabulous house style, and entertains and informs readers.
- Suggest creative, original and inspiring headlines, sells, captions and coverlines.
- Perform essential admin tasks on the Production desk to help the magazine workflow run smoothly.
- Communicate questions effectively and problem solve.
Key skills:
- Proven subbing track record.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to remain organised and unflappable under pressure.
- A whizz at Adobe Indesign and familiar with magazine workflows.
About Us
We are The Sun
- The Sun is the most popular newsbrand in the UK, reaching 38.2 million people a month across digital and print. The Sun is at the heart of the nation’s conversation, blending serious investigations, agenda-setting campaigns, political scoops and celebrity gossip. More than a newspaper. The Sun is an instigator, an entertainer, a cultural reference point, a finger on the pulse, a daily relationship. We have a talented, diverse team who publish the best coverage of news, sport, lifestyle and showbiz in print and digital.
Life at News
- At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.
What We Offer
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff.
Some of what we offer includes:
- Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions
- Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes
- ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme
- Physio/massage
- Counselling
- A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
- 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
- Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
- Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access;
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.
