Black Knight Media has a unique opportunity available for an Editorial Assistant / Junior Reporter to join the team in Beckenham. The role is a full time, permanent position offering a salary of £17,000-£21,000 per annum.
Black Knight Media is a publisher of fortnightly financial and legal magazines for business readerships. It is a news-driven organisation that delivers the headlines in securities lending, asset servicing, captive insurance and intellectual property.
We are looking for an Editorial Assistant / Junior Reporter, depending on experience, to assist and deliver high-quality news and features as we embark on our next stage of growth.
You will join the team based in our Beckenham (Kent) office and assist the team to deliver insightful, informative and well written copy on a daily basis. You will also be tasked with working on one or more of the company's fortnightly magazines. For this, you will deliver a minimum of four features per month on related topics. You will also aid the editors with proofreading ahead of every press day.
This is a perfect role to kick-start your journalism career and, while no formal journalism experience is required, the ideal candidate will have some previous work experience producing news and features.
Finally, future development could see you represent one of our magazines at conferences around the world.
To become our Editorial Assistant / Junior Reporter you need to have:
- A bachelor's degree or an equivalent qualification in a relevant subject
- Previous internships or work experience
- An ability to write well, and quickly, concisely and accurately, to tight deadlines
- A desire to travel in the UK and abroad to conferences and industry events
- A love of spelling, grammar and style, and distaste for anything that doesn’t adhere
- A strong work ethic, a sense of humour and the courage of your convictions
Please send your covering letter and CV, along with two writing examples by clicking apply now.