Journalist

by Manchester City in Media

EnglandFull time

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Date posted

December 13, 2024

Closing date

Hiring location

England

Offered salary

Experience

Minimum Qualification

Quantity

1 Person

Description

Our Story

Manchester City is an English Premier League club whose roots began in East Manchester. From its first incarnation as St Mark’s West Gorton in 1880, the club became Manchester City FC in 1894. Behind each title lies emotion, moments and memories that resonate with millions of supporters around the world. Manchester City fans are known for their commitment and togetherness, as a Club that fights to the end.

Our Written Content team bring Manchester City stories to life, allowing fans across the world an insight into what goes on inside our club every single day. As a Journalist, you’ll be a custodian of our history, using the power of football and journalism to engage with supporters across digital our digital platforms, with high-quality news and feature writing at the heart of our offering. A pro-active self-starter, you’ll be joining an inclusive team within a fast-paced environment. Driven by collaborative working and a passion for storytelling, you’ll be a key player in delivering a best-in-class product.

Our Winning Team

MCFC is built on a vision for sustainability, with an academy structure designed to support long-term first team success, to engagement with the communities in which we reside. Together with our passionate fans and valued network of partners, we are developing Manchester City’s future history.

This is Your City

As part of our team, you will be entitled to 26 days annual leave plus an additional day off for your birthday, private healthcare and a simply health cash plan, an annual discretionary bonus, plus a range of partnership and lifestyle discounts.

Your Impact

  1. Assist the Head of Editorial and Managing Editors in all daily tasks.

  2. Cover live matches across men, women, EDS and U18s, producing match reports, live blogs, interviews and match galleries. Ability to write accurately under pressure is vital.

  3. Able to provide high quality written copy for web/app, digital magazine and matchday programmes.

  4. Assist with content optimisation, maintaining high standard of website hygiene and best practice in SEO.

  5. Assist Matchday Live team and help drive their news agenda.

  6. Help maintain excellent stats, records and milestones database, which help service video, social and design teams

  7. Create and execute new content ideas, always looking to find innovative strands that challenge our readership.

  8. Lead on sub editing duties for the web and app, ensuring the right content appears in the right place at the right time.

  9. Lead on preserving the hygiene of our official app, especially across all new sections including CITY+ trending, Live & Upcoming and Long Read carousels


What we are looking for

Essential

  • Professional qualification in journalism and at least one year of experience on fast-paced news desk

  • Ability to develop contacts with former Manchester City players/managers/staff.

  • Experience using CMS

  • Excellent knowledge of Manchester City men, women, EDS and U18s


Desirable

  • Full Driving License

Skills

  • Management
  • Planning

Interested in this job?

Journalist

by Manchester City in Media