Careers.
From our journalists to commercial team, we have some of the best talent in publishing, striving to inform, challenge and inspire our readers and clients. Our honest and open culture makes us one of the most passionate companies in the business.
We strive for our talent and work to follow these core company values:
INNOVATION - Ideas are our currency. In a city that is always evolving we embrace and drive change across all of our platforms, within our team and as a business.
COLLABORATION - We’re in this together – as colleagues, stakeholders and citizens of our great capital. Teamwork is key to our success – inside and outside of the building.
RESILIENCE - Through every one of history’s landmark moments The Evening Standard has responded and delivered. We’re proud to be a newsbrand with a
powerful legacy – and a focus on the future.
TRUST - Fair. Honest. Accurate. From our reporting to how we conduct our
relationships, trust is in our DNA.
DIVERSITY - We are London – the most diverse city in the world. Our commitment is to represent our city with a team and through content that reflects our readers.
All of our employees are entitled to benefits including great pension, private healthcare and life insurance schemes. We also offer cycle to work and season ticket loan initiatives to make our employees’ journeys to work easier. We want our employees to enjoy working for us and we invest in training and development to support and develop rewarding careers.
Open Vacancies.
About us
The Evening Standard is an iconic London brand, recognised as setting the agenda in politics and business, as well as being first with lifestyle content, major news and sports stories.
We are UK’s largest quality daily and online newspaper, with one of the fastest growing audiences in the UK. We provide brands and marketers with an unparalleled gateway to London's high-value audiences through digital, print, social and events.
ES Magazine, Homes and Property and ecommerce platform ES Best are all market leading in their fields, and add to the compelling Evening Standard portfolio.
We are proud of our history and firmly set on a future that is focused on growing audiences and revenue with a digital first entrepreneurial approach.
The News team
The News team is at the heart of the Evening Standard with a long-standing reputation for breaking exclusive, agenda-setting stories that are followed by national newspapers, broadcasters and media around the world.
The role
A reporter’s role is to work with the News desk and senior executives to produce exclusive, digital-first content and comprehensive news coverage across all platforms. The role is a core part of the team for the Evening Standard.
Skills and experience
- Experience working in a dynamic and fast-moving news environment, a quick, accurate and confident writer
- Ability to work with the News desk and senior executives to help produce digital-first exclusive content and cover breaking news across multiple platforms.
- A good understanding of media law and the Editors’ Code of Practice to help ensure all content is legally safe and compliant with expected standards.
- A capable communicator able to respond to direction from the News desk and senior staff.
- Knowledge of current affairs including politics, crime, business, arts, celebrity news, education, health, environment, technology, foreign news and Royal stories. Experience using CMS systems.
Key responsibilities and accountabilities
- Producing and sourcing stories, pictures, video and audio content for the Evening Standard across all platforms.
- Helping to ensure the Evening Standard continues to be first with breaking news.
- Delivering content in a timely manner, legally safe and compliant form.
- Helping to generate and deliver ideas for special projects, investigations and in-depth pieces. Responding quickly to instructions from the Newsdesk and senior editors and ensuring these are delivered in full.
- Working the necessary hours to help staff the newsroom across the full week. You will be accountable to the Executive Editor/Head of News and other senior executives.
Expected behaviours
- Continuous Improvement – Works in a smart, flexible and focussed way, is open to change and suggests ideas for improvements to the way things are done.
- Collaboration – Builds and maintains positive and supportive working relationships with colleagues. Helps to create an inclusive and professional work environment.
- Building Capability – Keeps own knowledge and skill set current and evolving and looks for ways to continue learning to support the achievement of business objectives.
- Quality Service – Delivers high quality and efficient service and takes account of the diverse customer needs and requirements when looking at ways to improve service quality.
- Responsive Delivery - Works to agreed business goals and objectives and deals with challenges in a constructive and responsive way. Takes personal responsibility for quality of outputs.
1. Continuous Improvement – Works in a smart, flexible and focused way, is open to change and suggests ideas for improvements to the way things are done.
2. Collaboration – Builds and maintains positive and supportive working relationships with colleagues. Helps to create an inclusive and professional work environment.
3. Building Capability – Keeps own knowledge and skill set current and evolving and looks for ways to continue learning to support the achievement of business objectives.
4. Quality Service – Delivers high quality and efficient service and takes account of the diverse customer needs and requirements when looking at ways to improve service quality.
Responsive Delivery - Works to agreed business goals and objectives and deals with challenges in a constructive and responsive way. Takes personal responsibility for quality of outputs.
Due to the high volume of applications we will only be contacting candidates who have been shortlisted and progressed through to the next stage.
Benefits
- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme (company matches up to 6% of contributions)
- Private healthcare scheme through Vitality
- Learning and Development opportunities
- EAP – Employee Assistance Programme
- Free eye test vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Once you have completed a full year of employment your annual leave will increase by 1 day to up to 30 days
To apply
Please send an up to date CV along with a full covering letter with salary expectations to
esirecruitment@esimedia.co.uk
Due to the high volume of applications, we will only be contacting candidates who have been shortlisted and progressed through to the next stage.
Evening Standard is an equal opportunities employer, if you require any reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please do not hesitate to advise us accordingly.
All of our employees are entitled to benefits including free on-site gym, flexible working options, great pension, private healthcare and life insurance schemes. We want our employees to enjoy working for us and we invest in training and development to support and develop rewarding careers.
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