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NEWS RESEARCHER (NIGHTSHIFT)

Edinburgh

Shifts An 8‐hour shift, between the hours of 10.30pm and 7.30am

(with 30‐minute paid break)

14 nights on ‐ 14 nights off shift pattern

Pay: £24,500.00 - £26,000.00 per year, salary dependent on experience

Overview

Press Data, one of the UK's leading providers of media intelligence, are currently looking for News Researchers to join our Nightshift Content and Editorial team based in central Edinburgh. Our team work throughout the night monitoring key media sources for a wide range of clients.

Our Content and Editorial team is responsible for monitoring press, broadcast and online content for an extensive list of clients across multiple sectors. News Researchers play a critical role in our media monitoring service, with responsibility for viewing, assessing, and delivering news items to meet our clients’ complex requirements.

Our Nightshift News Researchers work overnight to ensure that all relevant articles from the national press and online sources are delivered in our clients’ early morning summaries.

News Researchers are required to summarise and contextualise news articles and also have responsibility for copyediting key content before it is sent to clients.

Duties and responsibilities

• Monitoring of press, online and broadcast sources accurately to agreed time targets
• Accurate selection of items according to individual client requirements
• Handling client delivery and quality control responsibilities, delivering articles to agreed deadlines
• Writing and sending accurate, concise summaries to meet tight deadlines
• Writing verbatim transcripts of broadcast items as selected by clients
• Maintaining and updating knowledge of client requirements, the media environment and working procedures
• Any other reasonable tasks as assigned by management

Skills required

Essential

• Excellent knowledge of UK current affairs
• Fast, accurate typing and good all‐round IT skills
• Ability to work and communicate well within a team structure
• Effective time management in order to meet multiple tight deadlines
• Excellent written and spoken English with in‐depth understanding of grammar

Desirable

• Previous experience of working in media monitoring or media intelligence role
• Ability to interpret, extract and evaluate written content accurately and at speed
• Qualification in journalism, media or communications subject
• Some writing or journalistic experience

The Candidate

Our team of researchers come from a range of backgrounds. Many are graduates, often with qualifications in journalism, media and politics. Others have direct experience in public relations, communications, or journalism and media‐based roles. What they all have in common is a passion for news and an all‐round understanding of UK current affairs.

The ability to produce accurate work to a series of tight deadlines is essential, as is the aptitude to interpret a large and diverse amount of information. A significant part of this role will involve working quickly and accurately with bespoke media monitoring software. The successful applicant must be comfortable with technology and learning to navigate our custom‐built systems.

We are looking for someone who is organised, motivated and able to work across a range of tasks, managing multiple priorities and deadlines to fit in with our existing operations.

As a growing company, we require all staff to develop a versatile range of skills in relation to a daily agenda where quality and consistency of service to our clients is of prime importance.

Company Background

Media Intelligence is a £3 billion a year global industry. As news media production, delivery and consumption changes, our industry has emerged as a highly dynamic, successful element of the communications cycle. And within this global market, the UK leads in terms of technology and expertise. Press Data is an important provider in this growing market place.

Our role is to enable our clients to navigate the world of news media. Every day the amount of content published, broadcast and distributed grows exponentially. Our clients are the leading names in UK corporate and government and we supply the leadership of these organisations with highly filtered, concisely written digests that ensure they are constantly briefed on anything relevant to the activities of their organisations. Alongside this we provide their communications teams with planning and insight to support their own objectives – understanding media themes and agenda, message analysis, journalist and stakeholder engagement. Our products and services shape their thinking on how they manage their reputation, develop their communication strategy, and deliver measurable outcomes.

For over thirty years Press Data has been at the forefront of the UK industry. Our clients are a Who’s Who of business and government. During this time our media world has evolved and changed – from development of new technology, to changes in consumption and the growth of social media channels and in response to this Press Data has developed comprehensive solutions across the news cycle.

At the heart of what we do is the expertise, talent and experience of our team of researchers, editors and analysts who work on our round-the-clock operation, from our production centre in Central Edinburgh, providing meaningful, insightful products to tight deadlines. Our emphasis is on quality, insightful writing, editorial selection and concise, targeted reporting.

Press Data is a training and learning organisation where professional development is enabled and encouraged. We aim to be a company where talented and aspiring people want to work, develop and succeed. Press Data works to continuously support equality, diversity and inclusion, focused on our belief that being more representative means we are better able to serve our clients and the communities in which we operate, bringing a wider range of experiences and views to our work.

Pay: £24,420.00-£26,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• On-site gym

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Edinburgh EH3 9QX