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Senior Content Creator (Celebrity News & Features)Bauer Media
3 days ago
  • LevelSenior
  • ProfessionsContent Producer, Content Editor, Journalist
  • TypeFull Time
  • LocationLondon, United Kingdom

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Description

The Focus of your role:
Are you an experienced entertainment journalist, with a stellar track record for breaking exclusive news stories about the rich and famous? Do you consider yourself a permanent fixture on the red carpet, chatting to stars from Hollywood to Emmerdale? Can you file addictive copy on the latest celebrity news, entertainment and pop culture, with passion and authority?
Bauer Media is looking for a Senior Content Creator to work in our TV, Celebrity News, and Entertainment Hub. This is a role for an experienced journalist who can find, and write about the very best exclusive celebrity and entertainment stories. The right candidate will be responsible for breaking celebrity news in the UK’s best-selling brands, Closer, heat, Grazia, Bella and Yours, as well as being pro-active about bringing talent in our powerhouse brands, for in-depth interviews, shoots and more.
Key Responsibilities:
  • Ability to spot stories or a compelling angle not covered by other publications and the ability to re-work stories
  • Follows briefs and direction from the Content Editor with minimal supervision, conducting first-hand interviews and writing engaging content
  • Strong news gathering skills and able to attend events and red carpets to get the best celebrity gossip
  • Write clean and vibrant copy that is fun and entertaining
  • Horizon scans for trends and ideas and reviews competition, making recommendations to the Content Editor
  • Delivers planned content that can be used across multiple brands, on time and to the correct quality standards
  • Use boards in Monday.com to view briefs, manage assignments and move the workflow to the next stage
  • Comfortable multitasking and working in a fast-paced online news environment
  • Proactively seeks feedback from the Content Editor, Brand Editor, and colleagues to ensure content is of the highest quality and meets the brand brief, and asks for help and support when needed, to ensure continuous improvement on quality and efficiency
What you'll bring:
  • An experienced senior journalist who can track down and report on the best exclusive celebrity and entertainment stories – all written in house style and to publication standard
  • A self-starter, who is full of ideas, and who can bring talent into our best-selling celebrity titles, for interviews, shoots and seasonal ideas
  • An experienced editor, who can work with team members to edit content, and package each story with headlines and visuals that are unique to our brand
  • Someone who has lots of drive, a huge passion for the entertainment industry, a portfolio of exclusives, and a packed contacts book
Closing Date: Monday 14th October
Package Description
Rewards packages at Bauer Media offer a range of salary sacrifice Benefits, such as our pension scheme and flexible holidays, as well as exclusive Perks like great deals and discounts for everyday life.
  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays + 2 volunteer days 
  • Internal Bauer Academy – Wide range of learning opportunities to support with your Career Development 
  • Opportunity to buy additional holiday
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay 
  • Company pension 
  • Cycle to work scheme, tech loan scheme and groups discounts for healthcare insurance
  • Discounted subscriptions on Bauer publications (50%)
  • Thrive initiatives – Wellbeing at Bauer
  • Opportunities to contribute to our Belonging@Bauer and Sustainability initiatives  
  • Discounted high street vouchers
About Bauer Media Group
Bauer Media Group has become an enduringly successful media corporation by focusing on creating content that matters most to millions of people around the world: from print and online publishing to radio and money-helper services for consumers, as well as sales and marketing services for SMB. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer focuses on the long term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our increasingly diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 15,000 shares a passion – to deliver content and services that are popular with, and helpful to, our customers and partners.
As the UK’s biggest selling magazine publisher, we create iconic and influential magazine media brands, digital properties and associated consumer and B2B live events for diverse, passionate audiences.  We reach 25 million consumers through our portfolio, which includes heat, Grazia, Closer, Empire, Motor Cycle News, Parkers, Mother& Baby, TV Choice, Take a Break, Bella, Yours, Garden News and Country Walking.  Our scale, coupled with the breadth of our portfolio, gives us an advantage over pure play magazine competitors. It also gives us a huge responsibility - our brands become the lens through which our audiences see the world, and for this reason, we take our responsibilities as a media outlet very seriously, recognising that we are responsible for shaping perceptions in the wider world.
Belonging at Bauer Mission statement
People are at the heart of everything we do. Inclusivity is part of who we are. We celebrate diversity in all its forms, and encourage authenticity, knowing that our differences are celebrated.
What we will offer you
Quite simply, our promise to you is that Bauer Media is a great place to do great work with great people. Our people take an enormous amount of pride in the brands they support. They like their team members, and they feel supported by their managers. We all take collective responsibility for our culture, because we know it has a ripple effect out across our brands. That’s why our culture of inclusion at work, Belonging at Bauer, is at the heart of everything we do. Belonging at Bauer is about our dual goals of being as representative as we can of the audiences we serve, and about creating a working environment where all our people feel able to bring their whole selves to work every day. It’s part of everything we do, and everyone who works here is responsible. If you join us, you’ll be an important part of this as well.
Our mental health at work
We’re proud to be the driving force behind the “Where’s your head at?” campaign, which is working to put Mental Health First Aiders on an equal footing with traditional workplace First Aiders. This is a priority for all of us that work at Bauer and we now have fully trained Mental Health First Aiders supporting and working across all of our UK locations.
Learning and Development
As the only Media company to be in the top 100 apprenticeship employers, we are striving to always be a great place to do great work for all, Bauer is committed to offering learning and development initiatives through its Bauer Academy tailored to its people, empowering teams and individuals to grow and progress in their careers.
Please Note: We are actively seeking this position. You should hear from us within 48 hours of the expiry date. Please note on some occasions the role may be closed before date shown or need to be extended.
Bauer Core Values
Passion
We LOVE what we do – it inspires, unifies and challenges us. Our passion is contagious – both loud and quiet, making the impossible possible.
Excellence
Our desire for excellence fuels our ambition for personal and business growth.
Trust
We value honesty and integrity. Trust is our foundation, empowering our people to live up to their full potential.
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is our pursuit of opportunity – we are agile, focused and resourceful.
If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.

Skills Required

  • Content Creation
  • Journalism
  • Content Editing

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