Jobs at Reach plc

Reports compelling local and national political stories for ChronicleLive and network brands. Translates complex public policy into accessible community-focused content, scrutinises public bodies, investigates local issues, mentors reporters, and produces text, video, audio, photo, live-blog, podcast, and social content. Builds reader communities, collaborates across editorial teams, and ensures accurate, balanced, legally compliant reporting while working rota-based evening and weekend shifts.

Cover Edinburgh City Council meetings, decisions, political developments, and local community issues. Build contacts, identify important stories, write features, break exclusives, and hold local politicians accountable. Content may be published by EdinburghLive, featured on the BBC Homepage, and shared with local media partners. The role also involves using social media to grow audience engagement and requires regular attendance at in-person council meetings around Edinburgh.

Develop and deliver high-impact brand marketing campaigns across print, digital, social, video, audio, and events. Collaborate with editors, journalists, newsrooms, and creative teams to translate editorial priorities into engaging consumer campaigns. Manage brand identity, visual quality, timelines, budgets, and stakeholder relationships while building audience engagement across regional markets in the UK and Ireland.

Report and produce compelling political and public-affairs stories across South West regional brands. Investigate local government and community issues, translate national policy into local impact, and package content across text, video, audio, live blogs, photos, and social formats. Mentor reporters, collaborate across the editorial network, build audience communities, maintain editorial standards, and work flexible evening and weekend shifts.

Reports political and public-affairs stories across Yorkshire, translating national policy into local impact. Responsibilities include investigative reporting, scrutinising public bodies, producing text, video, audio, photos and live blogs, mentoring reporters, coordinating network-wide political coverage, and engaging local communities. The role requires accurate, balanced, well-researched journalism, CMS proficiency, multimedia skills and flexibility to work evening and weekend shifts.

Create and deliver social-first video, motion graphics, and multi-platform visual assets across digital, print, packaging, e-commerce, CRM, and subscription campaigns. Responsibilities include concept development, shooting, editing, animation, photo and film shoot direction, retouching, layout, typography, AI-assisted creative workflows, and campaign execution. Manage high-volume asset production, versioning, deadlines, and brand consistency while using performance insights to improve customer journeys and conversion.

Reports and publishes breaking UK and international news for a UK audience during overnight Australian shifts. Monitors news wires and social media, identifies emerging stories, conducts rapid interviews and research, and produces accurate digital articles. Enhances coverage with audio, video, and social embeds while using CMS platforms, analytics, editing tools, and approved AI tools. Requires independent editorial judgment, strong UK knowledge, headline-writing ability, and fact-checking skills.

Own end-to-end design output across e-commerce, brand marketing, and customer marketing. Create digital, print, motion, video, CRM, landing-page, promotional, and product-image assets. Manage projects independently while collaborating with e-commerce, brand, and CRM teams. Apply conversion-focused design principles and integrate AI tools and automation to improve creative productivity and scale.

Leads brand strategy, portfolio ownership, marketing calendars, cross-channel campaign delivery, KPI governance, and brand consistency across national and regional news brands. Builds and manages a new team of Brand Managers, partners with editorial and product stakeholders, and combines strategic planning with hands-on campaign execution to drive growth and brand equity.

Report on Harrow and Brent Councils, covering meetings, key decisions, political developments, and issues affecting local communities. Build contacts, investigate stories, write features, break exclusives, and hold local authorities accountable. Content may appear on MyLondon, the BBC Homepage, and partner media outlets. The role also involves using social media to drive audience engagement and regularly traveling to council meetings in London.

Create and publish daily local and national business journalism for multiple news brands. Responsibilities include sourcing original stories, producing newsletters, live blogs, roundups, and subscriber content, developing local business networks, representing the brand across events and digital platforms, contributing stories to BusinessLive, and collaborating with commercial teams to support revenue opportunities.

The Business Editor will produce daily local business journalism for BirminghamLive, sourcing original stories and covering regional enterprise, entrepreneurship, and small businesses. Responsibilities include creating newsletters, live blogs, roundups, and subscriber content; developing local business networks; representing the brand at events and across social, video, and podcast channels; contributing stories to BusinessLive; and collaborating with commercial teams on revenue opportunities.

Lead daily business journalism for the Manchester Evening News, producing original local coverage, newsletters, live blogs, roundups, and subscriber-focused content. Build relationships with local business communities, represent the brand across events and digital channels, contribute stories to BusinessLive, and collaborate with commercial teams to support revenue opportunities.

Process end-to-end employee expenses: review/approve claims, manage advances and reconciliations, execute payment runs, maintain expense system records and GL reports, advise employees on policy, ensure HMRC compliance, and drive process improvements.

Manage multiple 360° branded content and experiential projects from pre-sale through delivery. Balance budgets and timelines, identify and mitigate risks, coordinate internal and external teams, nurture client and partner relationships, and ensure campaigns meet agreed KPIs.

Support month-end, half-year and year-end close; prepare consolidated group financial statements and subsidiary statutory accounts; lead technical accounting areas (revenue, properties, provisions, IFRS16); maintain internal controls and reconciliations; liaise with external auditors and partner with local finance teams to ensure consistent accounting policies.