Closing Date: 17 September 2016

Job Title: Trainee Reporter

Working For: Guido Fawkes

Location: London

Salary: Competitive

Job Details

The Guido Fawkes website is looking for a full-time reporter to work in our Westminster bureau. They will be a political obsessive who either has previous experience of working in parliament, or a spectator with an unhealthy knowledge of the minutiae of politics. They will have a sense of humour and be happy to spend weekday evenings building contacts in SW1. They will have a sense of what makes a story, and an unquenchable thirst… to break news.

Responsibilities:

• Video editing, recording, photoshopping and sharing content on social media.
• Writing stories across the various news streams of our website, on politics, the media, energy and green issues, as well tech and Europe.
• Breaking news.

Requirements:

• Some basic video editing ability desirable
• Fast learner
• Hard-working, able to produce under deadline pressure
• Drive to bring in stories
• Sense of humour
• Share our ethical values and worldview

Guido Fawkes is Westminster’s number one news and gossip website established in 2004.

Closing Date: 17 September 2016

Interview/Start Dates

Interviews ASAP.  The successful candidate will ideally start work at the end of September.

Application Details

Send a covering letter and CV, and examples of your previous work. Please also send an example topical story, written in Guido’s style, including the pithy red pay off line, to team@order-order.com.