Trainee Reporter – Brighton

Daily newspaper The Argus seeks a talented trainee reporter to join our busy and friendly team.

We want an ambitious, digitally skilled, versatile journalist to unearth the best-breaking news and features on an incredibly lively news patch.

The right candidate will be passionate about digital storytelling, hard-working, full of ideas and have a desire to come up with innovative ways of presenting stories across various platforms.

Key Responsibilities

A big part of the job will also be immersing yourself in social media, developing relationships and understanding what matters to the community.

We want to tell the stories our audiences care about, championing the best of our local communities, telling powerful human-interest stories and covering everything from local politics to crime.

You will ideally hold NCTJ qualifications, including 100wpm shorthand, or you may be beginning your career in journalism.

If you have a journalism degree that is not NCTJ-accredited, we may be able to provide additional training for you to become a fully NCTJ-qualified journalist.

The successful candidate would be based at our office in Brighton full-time.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Brimming with ideas on how to help drive The Argus forward online and in print
A digital native, with digital storytelling at the forefront of all you do
Excellent at developing relationships with key contacts to improve coverage
Driven to succeed using the digital analytics tools at your disposal
A self-starter, brilliant with time management

About Newsquest Media Group

We are a media company with a difference. We are committed to bringing a voice to your region by investing in a passionate team of journalists who proudly serve their communities by sharing authoritative news that readers trust. Our sales teams provide local businesses with highly responsive digital advertising and marketing solutions.

We are one of the largest regional news publishers in the UK and have a portfolio of more than 250+ local news brands and magazines online and in print. With an online audience of 41 million users a month and 7 million readers a week in print, our content is read by a substantial proportion of the UK population.

In addition to our local news brands, we own several digital pure play and specialist media businesses such as s1jobs and s1homes, Exchange & Mart, and Newsquest Specialist Media. We also own LOCALiQ, an award-winning digital marketing agency that specialises in driving more leads, increasing online growth and generating return on marketing investment on behalf of thousands of UK SMBs.