Trends Deputy News Editor (Casual)

CompanyThe Sun

LocationLondon Area, United Kingdom

Posted At3/13/2026

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Newspaper, periodical and broadcast editors

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Description

The Sun is the biggest news brand in the UK with a talented, diverse team which publishes the best news, sport, lifestyle and showbiz in print and digital.

The Role: The Sun is looking for highly motivated, first class reporters to join The Trends Team - an exciting desk focused on high quality, referral-led content.

You will build the audience of The Sun by producing engaging, topical and highly shareable content for our digital audience with an innovative and dynamic team that is capitalising on emerging trends.

Key Responsibilities:

Help lead the team: Regularly help manage the team tasked with writing a wide range of engaging stories for digital across all sections including specialist content
Traffic driving: Maximise traffic by targeting key areas the team can win at - the editors should be across all monitoring tools, be adept at analysis and constantly feedback to the team so they know what is working too
Forensic monitoring of themes: Understand which themes are working for the website, from which referrers and why - as well as how to maximise traffic potential

Produce high quality content: Write a number of engaging stories every day for the website, on a variety of different topics including lifestyle, consumer and news

Variety and originality: Ability to expand themes by adapting them - finding new ways to interest readers as well as come up with new topics to drive traffic

Pivot as necessary: Be nimble and swap focus from Social to Discover to the Homepage quickly. Ability to experiment with content to reach new audiences

Training and feedback: The editors will be expected to train new writers and bring on more junior reporters including on story sourcing, targeting copy and editing

Creativity and agility: Be on the pulse with story ideas coming from a wide variety of sources, and have the ability to pitch good ideas daily

Teamwork: Work with teams across the newsroom to ensure good communication

What we’re looking for from you:

Proven experience as a digital reporter in a national newsroom
Willingness to learn quickly and on-the-job while helping develop a small team

Strong ability to write stories quickly and under pressure, but still to a high standard

Demonstrable understanding of traffic-driving, including the differences between referrers such as Discover, Facebook and the Homepage and how to target each one

Adept at working with others, such as senior editors and audience managers, on story ideas

Ability to balance feedback from multiple sources with your own ideas to create the best lists possible

Knowledge of writing for different sections and how that impacts style (Consumer, Travel, News, Lifestyle etc)

Be brimming with new ideas

Knowledge of lifestyle trends and how to adapt them into highly-clickable content

A tireless work ethic, a positive attitude, and a desire to learn and grow

The ability to work collaboratively as part of a large, integrated team

Knowledge of media law and the IPSO code

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

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