Reporter

The Swindon Advertiser is looking for its next top reporter to join the team and work for one of the company's highest-performing newsrooms.

This role involves reporting on everything from breaking news to High Street shop openings, drug raids, local events, reviews, court stories as well as human interests tales. We cover it all, and no two days are the same.

We want a confident, digitally skilled and versatile journalist to unearth the best-breaking news and features on a lively patch.

The right candidate will be passionate about digital storytelling, hard-working, full of ideas and have a desire to come up with innovative ways of presenting stories across various platforms.

A big part of the job will also be immersing yourself in social media, developing relationships and understanding what matters to the community.

We want to tell the stories our audiences care about, championing the best of our local communities, telling powerful human-interest stories and covering everything from local politics to crime. 

We are looking for a senior reporter or an experienced trainee. You will have a journalism degree and ideally hold NCTJ qualifications and 100wpm shorthand.

You must also have a driver’s licence and your own car.

If you have a journalism degree that is not NCTJ-accredited, we will provide the relevant additional training for you to become a fully NCTJ-qualified journalist and then onto becoming a fully-fledged senior reporter.

It is a full-time role based with the rest of our team at our Swindon office. We offer hybrid working but living in the area, or the willingness to relocate, is required.

The company

Newsquest is a media company with a difference.

We are committed to bringing a voice to your region by investing in a passionate team of journalists who proudly serve their communities by sharing authoritative news that readers trust.

As well as dedicated sales teams which provide local businesses with highly responsive digital advertising and marketing solutions.

Newsquest Media Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all community sections regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

Our recruitment process will consist of various stages and activities, as part of our commitment to fairness to all applicants, we will consider any adjustments that could help you.