Position Summary
- The Public Life Editor leads Media Trust’s coverage of politics, governance, national and international affairs, the economy, business, justice, security, the environment, and public institutions.
- This desk drives the national agenda, ensuring Media Trust remains authoritative in public policy, governance, and power reporting. The role is responsible for high-speed breaking coverage and structured depth journalism within the Intake–Output system.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead political and governance coverage across all platforms.
- Set agenda-setting priorities in coordination with the News Hub.
- Ensure competitive exclusives and authoritative reporting.
- Commission stories daily.
- Structure stories into sequential waves, including breaking news, context, and deep analysis.
- Prepare content for seamless multi-platform adaptation.
Desk Coordination & Collaboration:
- Coordinate with Radar to immediately upgrade breaking stories and provide verified context.
- Collaborate with Checkpoint to flag investigations and develop policy-based deep dives.
Platform Integration:
- Ensure stories are adaptable to the web, print front pages, TV debate formats, and radio bulletins.
- Provide front page leads, political features, governance analysis, budget/economic explainers, and national crisis reporting.
Daily Workflow:
- Attend the News Hub meeting.
- Review the national diary and political calendar.
- Approve the day’s assignments.
- Respond to overnight breaking stories.
- Review the first-wave publication.
- Commission upgrades, including background and analysis.
- Coordinate TV and radio angles.
- Confirm print lead options with the General Editor.
- Review headline hierarchy.
- Ensure depth pieces are ready for next-day editions.
Candidate Profile
Essential experience:
- Senior editorial leadership experience in public-interest reporting, long-form journalism, or current affairs.
- Strong editorial judgment and proven ability to originate, shape, and deliver exclusive journalism.
- Demonstrated experience in managing complex reporting projects from conception to publication.
- Strong understanding of verification, editorial risk management, and evidence-led reporting.
- Experience working across digital, print, and broadcast workflows.
Skills and attributes:
- Strong editorial judgment
- Public-interest orientation
- Excellent commissioning and story development skills
- Strong planning and organisational discipline
- Ability to manage complex multi-stage editorial projects
- Collaborative leadership
- Calm decision-making under pressure
- Strong understanding of multiplatform storytelling
- High standards of accuracy, fairness, and verification
Success indicators (first-year expectations):
- Deliver regular exclusive and enterprise journalism.
- Build visible fact-check and accountability output.
- Produce recurring data-led explanatory journalism.
Application Closing Date
- Not Specifierd.
Method of Application
- Interested and qualified candidates should:
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