Your mission
We are looking for a weekend writer, working Friday to Sunday. The role is focused on researching and writing stories for the website after collecting, verifying and analysing thoroughly newsworthy information. Researching includes interviewing experts, sources and celebrities and gathering first-hand accounts of events as well as investigating news leads/tips. It also requires forward planning for future events, and securing exclusives. Content produced must be up to the minute, accurate, well presented and in keeping with the core values and tone of the HELLO! brand.
Key Responsibilities
Research and write articles for HELLO! online
Write regular features and galleries as directed
Lead weekend shift and sub stories from colleagues
Leading breaking news protocol and handling magazine PRs on a Sunday afternoon
Upload and oversee promotion of magazine exclusives on a Sunday afternoon
Establishing and maintaining contacts
Verifying statements and facts
Contacting and interviewing sources
Maintaining audio recordings and notes
Social media knowledge: echobox and scheduling
Daily monitoring of your stories via GA and Chartbeat
Your profile
We are seeking a dynamic, self-motivated Weekend Senior Online Writer with strong leadership skills and a passion for digital content. The ideal candidate will be proactive, take initiative, and have in-depth experience with content management systems (CMS), Google Analytics, Chartbeat, SEO best practices, and Apple News.
Qualifications
Relevant journalism qualification desired
About us
MISSION STATEMENT
To influence and inspire with relevant, exclusive and entertaining content in a positive, celebratory and kind environment via stringent editorial integrity.
History of Hello
HELLO! is a market-leading lifestyle and celebrity publication, known for its positive and celebratory reporting and unrivalled showbiz exclusives which have been entertaining audiences since 1988.
Over the years, its digital brand has transformed from a small legacy publishing site into an influential global website.
HELLO! is part of the HOLA group, who launched ¡HOLA! magazine in Barcelona in 1944. The husband and wife team of Antonio Sánchez Gómez and Mercedes Junco Calderón launched the publication with the aim of adding some sparkle to their readers’ lives. Always positive,¡HOLA! and HELLO! continue to remain true to the guiding principles of a new type of journalism - always positive, highly visual and celebratory, allowing readers a moment of escape into the worlds of the rich and famous to inspire, brighten and entertain.
With offices in London, New York and Toronto, HELLO! Magazine is now a 24-hour global website, with unique user experiences in our three main audience territories of the UK, US and Canada.
Our readership is more global than that however, with audiences also visiting the site from Australia, India, Europe and all other parts of the world.
