News editor Work, Jobs in Twickenham (with Salaries)

Assistant Editor, Fiction (12 month FTC)
HarperCollins UK —London
- £31,500 - £32,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Word
- Communication skills
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2d
Editorial Assistant
EMJ —London
- £30,000 a year
- Monday to Friday
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Word
- Writing skills
- English
- Work from home
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4d
Reporter
Haymarket Media Group —London
- £28,000 - £31,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Master's degree
- Communication skills
- Time management
- Flexible schedule
21h
National News Editor
The Observer —London
- Hybrid work
- Team management
- Leadership
- Editing
- Annual leave
News Editor Digital Health
CloserStill Media —London
- Hybrid work
- Team management
- Mentoring
- Organisational skills
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Assistant Editor, Fiction (12 month FTC)
News Corp —London
- £31,500 - £32,000 a year
- Microsoft Word
- Contracts
- Communication skills
1d
Associate News Editor
Newsweek —London
- Weekend availability
- Remote
- Organisational skills
- Editing
- Flexible schedule
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Commissioning Editor, News Review (12 Month FTC)
NewsUK —London
- Presentation skills
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
6h
Assistant Content Writer
Superyachts.com —London
- £25,000 - £34,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Writing skills
- Communication skills
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7d
Deputy Editor
Haymarket Media Group —London
- £40,000 - £45,000 a year
- Analysis skills
- Team management
- Organisational skills
- Flexible schedule
14d
Senior Journalist
Artefacto News Group —London
- £3,600 a month
- Full-time
- Research
- Bachelor's degree
- Free parking
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9d
Associate Editor
Haymarket Media Group —London
- Up to £40,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Communication skills
- Time management
- Analytics
- Flexible schedule
Breaking News Reporter - London
Newsquest Media Group —London
- Weekend availability
- Hybrid work
- Presentation skills
- AI
- Analytics
- Employee discount
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3d
News & Features Editor, ELLE Decoration (12 Month FTC)
Hearst Media Services —London
- £40,000 a year
- Full-time
- Employee discount
Assistant News Editor
dmg::media —London
- Full-time
- Management
- Analytics
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
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Photo Editor
Warner Bros. Discovery —London
- Weekend availability
- Hybrid work
- In-person
Middle East Editor
The New York Times —London
- Organisational skills
- Communication skills
- Editing
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Annual leave
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Editor, Subscriber Content
Newsweek —London
- Weekend availability
- Remote
- AI
- Communication skills
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Global Community Moderator
The New York Times —London
- Hybrid work
- Bachelor's degree
- No degree
- In-person
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Annual leave
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Editor
Mark Allen —Sutton
- £50,000 - £60,000 a year
- Team management
- Communication skills
- Editing
2d

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Assistant Editor, Fiction (12 month FTC)

HarperCollins UK
London

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Job details

Fixed term contract
£31,500 - £32,000 a year
2 days ago

Qualifications

Content quality assurance review
Microsoft Word
Stakeholder liaison
Internal department liaison
Copy editing
Content creation
Purchase order creation
Editing quality assurance passes
Content management
Editorial workflow management
Project management experience
Communication skills
Copywriting

Full job description

Description

We have a brilliant opportunity to work with our bestselling General Fiction list, working to support our two Publishing Directors and a Commissioning Editor, as part of our busy, friendly General Fiction team. It’s a role that offers a broad range of responsibilities, with a focus on editorial support for some of our key brand authors, production support for the busy list, and some direct contact with authors and management of their publishing. The role also includes administrative tasks across the General Fiction team and an ability to prioritise is key. We’re looking for someone with practical editing experience in a commercially focused publishing team, who is passionate about popular fiction, romance and great storytelling.

Key Responsibilities

Editorial:

Working closely with the Publishing Directors to give editorial support on their authors
Managing all aspects of production on their titles and seeing them through the production process, including booking freelancers
Doing structural and line edits as needed or alongside the Publishing Directors and working with authors
Checking copy-edits, resolving queries and collating page proofs
Completing ebook editorial checks
Writing and preparing cover and launch briefs, and cover copy
Creating Advance Information sheets to key sales deadlines, monitoring and updating them
Inputting metadata across all relevant titles and monitoring it – including checking Amazon - to ensure it remains relevant and up to date
Proof-reading cover runouts, author presentations, short stories and other texts, as well as sales and marketing material, e.g. catalogues, rights sheets, presenters
Creating author questionnaires, reading group questions and other extra content
Reading and reporting speedily on submissions shared by the Publisher or Publishing Director

Administration:

Liaison on Publishing Directors’ behalf with authors, agents, and other departments
Provide advance/sample materials to internal divisions
Organising purchase orders and processing invoices
Supplying TCM figures, international sales figures and overall sales analysis
Raising new contracts
Ordering gratis copies for authors
Taking minutes when necessary at inhouse meetings
Sending out proofs for advance quotes

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Previous experience in Trade Editorial
Project-management experience – effective at multi-tasking, with the ability to cope in a pressurised environment
Direct liaison with authors, agents, and other departments within the publishing company
Editing and writing copy experience
Reliable and demonstrates initiative
Effective communicator at all levels
A keen eye for detail
Advanced MS Word and Intermediate Excel and Outlook

About HarperCollins UK

With a history stretching back over 200 years, HarperCollins is the second largest consumer book publisher in the world. Here at HarperCollins UK, we publish around 1,500 books a year for readers of all ages and interests.

Our bestsellers include Bernard Cornwell, Adele Parks, Jonathan Franzen, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Memoirs of British prime ministers. Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy. George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. And legendary titles by legacy authors J.R.R. Tolkien, Agatha Christie and C.S. Lewis.

We’re home to the most iconic bears, Paddington, Rupert and Winnie-the-Pooh, and Judith Kerr, Rob Biddulph and Michael Morpurgo, Mr Men & Little Miss, Thomas & Friends and Minecraft for our younger readers.

We have offices in London, Honley, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dublin. In London, we’re in The News Building with News UK. Keeping our historic connection to Glasgow, we’re also based in the Robroyson district where each week, our distribution centre sends up to 3 million books around the world.

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