Digital reporter - St Helens and Leigh

Application Deadline: 5 September 2025

Department: Editorial

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Warrington

Reporting To: Andrew Kilmurray

Description

The St Helens Star and Leigh Journal are looking for a top-class reporter who is passionate about digital storytelling, hard-working, full of ideas and has the drive to come up with innovative ways of presenting stories across various platforms.  We need an ambitious, digitally skilled, versatile journalist to cover breaking news and write stories and features from this incredibly lively patch.

Key Responsibilities

A major part of the job will be immersing yourself in social media, developing relationships and understanding what matters to the local community.  We want to tell the stories our audiences care about - from covering crime and local politics to powerful human interest pieces and championing the best of our local communities.   The job is a hybrid role; it will involve a combination of working from home, reporting from patch, and time spent in our regional newsroom in Warrington.
Ideally, you will be a fully qualified reporter with gold-standard NCTJ with 100wpm.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Brimming with ideas on how to tackle the remit and get the most out of it digitally 
• Fully across what digital readers want from local news coverage 
• Excellent at developing relationships with key contacts to improve coverage 
• Driven to succeed using the digital analytics tools at your disposal 
• A self-starter, brilliant with time management 
• Passionate about social media  
• Have an excellent knowledge of relevant media law  
• Have a versatile, fresh, and energetic writing style with exceptional attention to detail  
• The ability to write – and think – quickly under pressure  
• An adaptable style to produce everything from live blogs and listicles to long reads
• and features  
• Knowledge of SEO and its importance to digital journalism  
• Have collaborative skills to pool ideas with the wider digital reporting team and take on board suggestions