Senior Newsletter Editor

Location: Daily Mail, HSK, London

Contract Type: Full-time/Permanent

About the Role

The Daily Mail is recruiting a Senior Newsletters Editor to manage the writing, editing, production and send of our morning news newsletter.

The successful candidate will be able to write quickly with a lively tone, have strong subbing skills and excellent news judgement to update the newsletter in the early hours. They will also be data literate, using performance data to curate stories and inform future strategy, and collaborate well with desks across the newsroom to show off the best of our coverage. This role involves split shifts, with some hours in the afternoon and some in the morning, starting at 5am.

Main Responsibilities

• Update, edit and send the daily morning news newsletter, ensuring high-quality writing in a lively tone and a compelling mix of content


• Use news sense to make confident calls about when to send during live news events


• Maintain editorial standards, ensuring accuracy, clarity and responsible reporting


• Analyse data and use editorial judgement to curate the most important, engaging and relevant stories for the newsletter


• Use performance data to make recommendations about story placement, picture choices, headline framing and content curation for future editions


• Collaborate with desks across the newsroom to ensure the newsletter reflects the best of our reporting and aligns with audience needs


• Translate audience and content performance data into actionable insights for newsletters team and wider newsroom to inform strategy


• Suggest and execute experiments aimed at optimising engagement and conversion


• Stay up to date with industry trends and audience engagement best practices

Person Specification

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism or a related field


• Adept at writing sharp copy, subbing and curating articles at a digital news publisher


• Excellent editorial judgement and news sense


• The ability to work and make decisions quickly


• Strong analytical skills, with experience using data to inform editorial decisions


• Excellent data literacy with the ability to interpret, visualise and explain trends clearly and to distil complex information into concise reports


• Ability to work closely with experienced journalists, building trust and credibility


• Creative problem-solving skills and a willingness to experiment


• Experience working with newsletters and knowledge of email best practices


• Experience working in a fast-paced newsroom environment

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)


• Upon joining you will be automatically enrolled onto the Pension Plan at
  the minimum level of 5% employee contribution, 3% Company
  contribution.


• Life cover under the Pension Plan of up to 3x your basic salary.


• DMGT Discounts (for discounts on online shopping, vouchers and
  reloadable cards)


• Subsidised canteen


• Onsite gym (Northcliffe House only)


• Onsite nurse and GP clinics (Northcliffe House only)


• Our Employee Assistance Programme


• Discounted dining cards

Plus many other benefits….

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process