Copy Sub-Editor

Location: i Headquarters – London
Position: Permanent 

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 
• Onsite nurse and GP clinics 
• Our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted dining cards

Plus many other benefits….

Job Introduction

i is looking for an experienced sub-editor to join our growing newsroom.   

The successful candidate will join our production team, working across products and platforms to elevate and enhance our journalism. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an ambitious team at a key moment in i’s growth.  

Main Responsibilities

• Copy subbing across our digital and print platforms
• Working on a broad range of copy including news, opinion, features, culture and money and business
• Writing engaging and informative headlines for digital and print 
• Cutting and reworking digital copy for our print audience
• Some print production, working with InDesign to produce and finesse pages
• Liaising with section heads, newsdesk, reporters, pictures, graphics and design to ensure every story is produced to the highest standards 

Person Specification

• A flair and passion for language, excellent news sense, great initiative, and the ability to write headlines and furniture that sing. 
• A strong interest in news and current affairs. 
• The ability to work quickly, creatively, and accurately under pressure, to tight deadlines. 
• Excellent knowledge of content management systems, WordPress, InCopy and InDesign.
• Strong copy-subbing skills, from crafting compelling prose to spotting legal problems. 
• At least three years’ experience in a senior sub-editing role at a daily title. Used to handling fast-moving news stories and able to juggle competing demands. 
• Passion for the i project, and an appreciation of i’s structure, style and ethos. 

About Us

i is Britain’s youngest national news publisher – and one of the most trusted. i has a unique mission: publishing non-partisan reporting and intelligent opinion. With a strong digital subscriber audience and a healthy print circulation, i has also grown digital reach to 11m users a month. Its newsroom breaks some of the biggest stories in UK journalism. Growing in influence and profitable, i is shortlisted for News Website of the Year and National Newspaper of the Year in the 2024 Press Awards, and is a recent winner of Daily Newspaper of the Year (London Press Club) and News Website of the Year (Online Media Awards). We pride ourselves on having a dynamic, collegiate work environment that celebrates creativity, innovation and success.

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.