Senior Reporter

WalesOnline is seeking to recruit a talented digital senior reporter who is brimming with ideas to join our team.

This is an exciting opportunity to create and curate multimedia content, putting together total content packages that work across all of our platforms, and use channels such as social media to get our stories to as many people as possible.

We are looking for someone to consolidate and develop WalesOnline's position as a key destination for Welsh news, write great stories and produce quality content that engages a growing number of readers.

We are Reach because it's what we do.

Every day our newsbrands - national and regional, in print and online - reach millions of people up and down the country. We are the UK's largest news publisher, with influential national newsbrands such as the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Sunday People, Daily Record, and more than 100 distinguished regional titles.

Our brands have a long heritage of being trusted sources of news and information, with our editorial conviction and high standards of journalism providing audiences with timely information and opinion across multiple platforms.

Last year we sold 540 million newspapers, and our network of over 70 websites provide 24/7 coverage of news, sport and showbiz stories, viewed by 110m unique browsers every month.

• Produce outstanding content which engages and grows our audience on a daily basis
• Do so through pictures, video, audio, live blogs and other interactive digital storytelling tools
• Have a strong understanding of the WalesOnline audience
• Engage pro-actively on social media and other platforms
• Take responsibility for video and audio content as well as written content
• Use analytics and data intelligence to guide your own content production
• Understand the key ways our audiences engage with our content - social, search, mobile, apps, video
• Cover major general news stories and breaking news (including live coverage) as required by the management team
• Create a maintain a community and audience around your stories
• Take responsibility for themes of content, such as geographic areas, campaigns or other areas of interest, as directed by the content desk
• Build strong contacts for story-gathering
• Ensure content is written with strong search engine optimisation in mind
• Ensure content carries the correct tags, in accordance with agreed conventions
• Ensure content is produced with the correct metadata at all times
• Undertake company/editorial projects and any other duties from time to time as reasonably requested by management
• Possess a thorough, up-to-date knowledge of media law and IPSO Code
• Maintain the highest personal standards of professionalism and integrity at all times within the framework of current legislation and Trinity Mirror's e

• First class digital, social media and communication skills
• Motivated by the challenge of producing stories and getting the highest possible audience for them
• Able get into the heart of our communities, bringing in exclusive stories and investigations which matter to our readers.
• Possess an NCTJ-accredited Journalism qualification
• 1-2 years experience working on a newspaper
• Understand digital publishing, including SEO and analytics
• Video and audio skills, including editing
• Up-to-date legal and IPSO code knowledge
• Full driving licence

In addition to competitive salaries, 25 days holiday, bonus structures (if applicable) and a contributory pension scheme, Reach plc have a wealth of flexible benefits on offer. These include holiday purchase up to ten days per year, childcare vouchers, cycle scheme, a technology scheme in conjunction with Curry's PC World, car scheme, health cash plan, employee loans and lots of high street discounts! Our business is fully committed to health and wellbeing in the workplace with an employee assistance programme and trained mental health first aiders across the business.

We are committed to equal opportunity for all. We may collect relevant data for monitoring as part of our candidate registration process. We will be reviewing applications as they are received so please don't delay in submitting your application.