Digital Journalist

The Dorset Echo is looking for a qualified and digitally-savvy journalist to get out and about to unearth the best breaking news, features, human interest, leisure and lifestyle stories from across our patch. You will be expected to deliver the sort of fast, agile and dynamic coverage that our readers expect and deserve in 2023 and beyond. The ideal candidate will be passionate about digital storytelling, with a desire to come up with new and innovative ways of telling those stories using a vast array of different skills, tools and platforms and immerse yourself in social media to help you tell your stories, develop relationships in your area and discover what it is that gets your community talking.

We want you to tell the stories our communities care about – everything from what is happening on the roads to the latest on crime on our streets - and delivering the inside story of the people and places that make our towns and cities tick.

This is a full time opportunity offering 37.5 hours a week working an early and late shift system, you are always based in our offices in Weymouth - we are offering a competitive salary, please state your salary expectations on application.