Video Commissioning Editor: Sun News Video - Showbiz

Video Commissioning Editor: Sun News Video - Showbiz

The Sun is the biggest news brand in the UK, publishing hundreds of stories a day and reaching over 23.4M unique users digitally every month. Its exclusives set the news agenda and its campaigns have changed the lives of many. Delivering news, entertainment, and sports coverage to millions of readers every day. With a rich history spanning decades, we are dedicated to providing accurate, insightful, and engaging content across print and digital platforms.

The Sun has a mass-market audience and aims to appeal to a diverse audience in the UK and beyond.

Your team An iconic, dynamic storyteller with a rich heritage and a global audience in the millions, The Sun is now focusing on an exciting, video-focused strategy to engage new audiences, putting video at the heart of The Sun’s journalism.

This is your chance to join a talented team, redefine how content is created and consumed, and leave your mark on the future of the brand, contributing to fast-paced, agenda-setting video output that drives traffic and revenue, as we redefine how a historic brand tells stories in the fast-paced digital world.

Your role: You will be at the forefront of our shift to video, commissioning compelling content that both informs and engages audiences across our news, sport, TV, showbiz and Fabulous sections. You will play a key role in driving our video output, ensuring that our video strategy aligns with traffic goals and revenue-generating platforms such as YouTube, our own site and other social channels. You will commission and curate video content that amplifies our journalistic integrity while capitalising on what drives clicks, views, and conversations online.

Day to day you will:

• Video Commissioning & Curation: Commission and curate original and creative video content for showbiz, ensuring it aligns with audience interests and traffic-driving objectives.
• Traffic-Driven Strategy: Use data-driven insights to inform your commissioning decisions, focusing on creating high-performing content optimised for page views and video plays across platforms such as YouTube, the website, and social media.
• Audience Engagement: Understand what captures attention in the fast-paced digital environment and commission content that drives conversations, shares, and engagement across multiple channels.
• Collaboration with Journalists: Work closely with showbiz newsroom reporters, producers, and editors to turn breaking news, trending topics, and sports events into compelling video content that resonates with online audiences.
• Platform Optimization: Analysing data to ensure all video content is tailored for various platforms, optimising for different algorithms, audience behaviours, and content formats across YouTube, social media, and the website.
• SEO & Metadata Management: Oversee SEO best practices for video content, including the creation of titles, descriptions, and tags that will boost discoverability and ranking on search engines and video platforms.
• Industry Awareness: Stay ahead of digital video trends in news, lifestyle, showbiz and sport, continuously experimenting with new formats, technologies, and approaches to audience engagement.

What we’re looking for from you:

• Digital Native: You are deeply immersed in the showbiz digital media landscape, with an intuitive understanding of what drives traffic online, especially through video content.
• Experienced Video Commissioner: You have experience in commissioning video in a large, fast-paced showbiz newsroom, and you know how to balance the demands of breaking news with the need to create evergreen content.
• News & Showbiz Savvy: A solid understanding of journalistic practices, the latest trends in news and sports coverage, and how to turn them into compelling visual stories that resonate with digital audiences.
• Data-Driven & Results-Oriented: You understand how to use analytics to inform content strategy and have a proven track record of driving audience growth and increasing video views through strategic commissioning.
• Cross-Platform Expertise: You know how to tailor content for specific platforms, especially YouTube, and optimise it for maximum impact.
• Creative & Fast-Paced: You thrive in a high-pressure, fast-moving environment, always ready to capitalise on breaking news or trending sports events to create impactful video content.
• Leadership & Collaboration: A natural collaborator who can work closely with journalists, producers, and technical teams to ensure a seamless video production process from concept to execution.

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 TalkTV, 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.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Access to exclusive events Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
• We offer a flexible working arrangement where employees are expected to be in the office a minimum of three days per week. For the remaining two days, there is the option to work remotely if desired.

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on careers@news.co.uk.