Homepage Editor

Homepage Editor

Location: MailOnline Headquarters, Derry Street, HSK, London

About the role

Are you passionate about digital journalism and looking for an opportunity to shape the news agenda for millions of readers worldwide? MailOnline has a rare opportunity for a talented, experienced journalist to join our newsroom as a Homepage Editor.

The successful candidate will play a key role at one of the world’s most popular commercial news sites. They will curate the top stories of the day, ensuring our content is timely and engaging. They will be responsible for maintaining quality and quantity of output, under the oversight of our senior editors. They will write engaging headlines and use their instinct and experience to actively shape stories that will interest our audience.

A strong track record of newsgathering, editing and managing a team is essential for this role, together with a deep understanding of digital 24-hour news.

Main Responsibilities

• Curate and present a compelling selection of stories for the MailOnline homepage, maintaining quality at all times
• Attend and contribute to daily conferences
• Identify strong content, write headlines, re-order and re-prioritise stories provided by the section editors
• Understand and use analytics to help curate the site
• Present stories in a visually engaging way by ensuring copy has relevant pictures and video content

The above list is not exhaustive and constantly evolving, based on the needs of the business.

Person Specification

• Extensive experience in digital journalism, ideally in a similar role
• Strong editorial judgment and news sense
• Excellent writing, editing, and communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• A keen understanding of MailOnline's audience and content style

MailOnline operates on a rota basis, seven days a week, which requires a flexible approach to shift patterns, including nights and weekends.

Package Description

Competitive salary package, full-time, pension and benefits:

• 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….

About dmg::media

dmg media’s brands deliver highly engaging, trusted content to millions of loyal customers around the globe, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Together, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, Metro, i, MailOnline, Mail Plus, metro.co.uk and inews.co.uk reach more than 11m people daily in the UK.* Globally, our brands reach 180m unique browsers every month.** In March 2021, the business acquired the world’s leading science title, New Scientist.  

dmg media’s newsbrands are expert at getting to the bottom of the stories most relevant to their readers.

*PAMCo 1 2020  ** Omniture April 2021

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.