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RPS is hiring a News Editor, and applications are open nowGet your application in today
Get your application in today
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Image credit:The Getty Research Institute/The Internet Archive/Old Book Illustrations
The RPS team is growing! We’re looking for a News Editor to take our news coverage to the next level, and you canapply right heretoday to join the team.
Reporting on games and their communities, both before and after release, has become an increasingly important focus for the way we cover PC games at RPS, and this role will lead that daily and long-form coverage. You’ll be writing multiple news stories per day, conducting your own investigations alongside that, and defining the overall strategy of our news coverage for other writers to follow.
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You can find all the details, including a full list of the job’s responsibilities, in theofficial job postingover on our sister site GamesIndustry.biz’s job board. You can also apply through our parent company RX’scareers pageif you prefer. All applications end up in the same place - namely, my inbox - so it doesn’t matter which one you use to apply.
This is a full-time, UK home-based role, with a yearly salary range of £28,000 - £30,000 based on experience.
When you apply,please include a CV AND a covering lettertelling us why you’d be the best person for the role. I cannot stress this enough - please, please,pleaseinclude a covering letter.
This is not an entry level role, so ideally you’ll have some journalism or published news writing experience, and are looking to step up to a section editor role. What’s most important, though, is that you’re able to bring personality and reflection to your reporting, while also being clear and precise with the facts.
There’s no fixed deadline for getting your application in, but we’ll likely start arranging interviews toward the end of April or the first week of May, giving you a good couple of weeks to get your application in.
