Sports Sub Editor

Sports Sub Editor - The Scottish Sun is looking for a sports sub-editor to join our talented team on a full-time, permanent basis.

News UK is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for storytelling, capturing moments, meaning and magic to make sense of the world. Our newspapers reach more than 30 million people each week and include The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. News UK is also home to Wireless, a leading UK and Irish media company boasting independent local and national radio stations.

The Team: We are The Scottish Sun. The Scottish Sun is Scotland’s No.1, award-winning newsbrand. The Scottish Sun cares about quality of life, the kind of world we live in, and about people. The Scottish Sun is more than a newspaper. It is an instigator, an entertainer, a cultural reference point, a finger on the pulse and a daily relationship. The Scottish Sun strives to the very highest standards of accuracy in its reporting, and continues to invest in original journalism in print and online.

Your Role: The Scottish Sun is looking for a sports sub-editor to join our talented team on a full-time, permanent basis.

Day to day:

• Reviewing sports content, checking facts to ensure stories are accurate and legally safe and subbing to the Scottish Sun’s high standards, quickly and accurately.

• Consulting with reporter/writer and desk heads to resolve issues with copy, suggest new angles and keeping chief subs informed on changes that arise.

• Maintain a wide knowledge of sports, current affairs and trends through reading various titles as well as utilising other media platforms daily.

• Working flexibly as part of a team across a seven-day rota, producing up to 17 pages a day plus three weekend pullouts.

• Maintaining The Scottish Sun’s reputation for eye-grabbing headlines.

• Meticulous fact-checking and attention to detail to ensure our pages are as clean as they can.

• Regularly stepping up to join the chief subbing team.

What we’re looking for:

• Experienced sub-editors who ideally will already have worked on a sport desk.

• Sports fans who have a passion for sport and a good all-round knowledge.

• Team players who will slot seamlessly into a friendly subs desk.

• Tabloid story-tellers who can spot hidden gems in reams of copy.

• People who are eager for responsibility and the chance to advance their careers.

Life at News

At News UK some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.

In addition we also offer:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
• 6 weeks plus bank holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.