Health Reporter

Health Reporter

Mail Newspapers (Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Mail+)

Location: Office-based (London)

Hours: Full-time, Monday to Friday, with some weekend shifts on a rota basis

Role: 1 year fixed term contract 

About the Role

The Mail is looking for a talented and tenacious Health Reporter to join its digital-first, cross-platform newsroom. This is a fantastic opportunity for a journalist with a passion for health, medicine, and science to break compelling stories, deliver exclusive coverage, and contribute to the Mail’s reputation for agenda-setting journalism.

Under the UK Health Editor as part of the Mail’s pioneering health hub, you will cover everything from breaking medical news and policy developments to in-depth features. Your work will appear across MailOnline, Mail+, The Daily Mail, and The Mail on Sunday, ensuring stories are optimised for digital platforms first while also serving print.

Main Responsibilities

• Report on the latest medical breakthroughs, public health policy, and NHS reforms, producing fast, accurate, and engaging content.
• Pitch and write splash-worthy exclusives, daily news stories, and long-form features, ensuring content is insightful and impactful.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key sources in the NHS, pharmaceutical industry, academia, and government.
• Work collaboratively within the health team to identify key issues and trends, contributing to investigations and special reports.
• Ensure all reporting meets the Mail’s high editorial standards for accuracy, balance, and reader engagement.

Person Specification

• Experience in news or health journalism, ideally in a fast-paced newsroom.
• Strong news sense and the ability to identify compelling, agenda-setting health stories.
• Ability to write clear, engaging, and authoritative copy to tight deadlines.
• Knowledge of medical research, public health, and the healthcare system is an advantage.
• Ability to work flexibly, including some weekends, to cover breaking news.

This is an exciting opportunity to cover one of the most important and fast-growing beats in journalism, with the chance to break exclusives, contribute to investigations, and shape the national conversation on health. If you have the passion, skills, and drive to deliver outstanding health journalism, we want to hear from you.

About dmg media

dmg media maintains an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most. Its brands Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, Metro, The i Paper, MailOnline, and Mail+ reach more than 9 million people daily in the UK.

Globally, dmg media’s brands reach 160 million unique browsers every month across its domains and apps.*

Its global newsroom of journalists, formidable story-getting power, and breadth of content formats, delivers highly engaging, trusted content to loyal and new audiences, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The Mail brand reaches three in five Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country. It is the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 21 million total followers and nearly 30 billion views** in the past year.

*GA Sept 2024

**Dec 2023 - Nov 2024 inclusive

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.