UK Audience Fellow (Jan 2024)

Insider is hiring a paid audience fellow in the UK to distribute stories across various social networks and video platforms. This fellowship is set to begin in January 2024.

**Fellowship applications close November 4, 2023**

Our mission is to inform and inspire the digital generation and become the most influential and loved journalism company. At Insider, we aim to cover the people, companies, and ideas changing our world. Our team members embody and uphold Insider’s three core values: we are all one team, we are effective, and we strive to get better every day.

The Role & Team:

The Insider Fellowship Program is for early career journalists who want to spend six months learning from a newsroom full of passionate, dedicated journalists. Fellows are assigned to teams and become experts in digital storytelling. They produce real work that is distributed to our audience of millions, and by the end of six months, they are prepared for the next phase of their journalism careers. This role requires you to work for 40 hours a week.

Our social media accounts are the face of our brands, and our audience fellows play an integral role by helping to run our growing network.

Key Responsibilities:

Manage posting schedules across social channels
Help the audience team reach its goals on platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, Snapchat, TikTok, and LinkedIn
Distributing new videos and stories on social channels as they are published, as well as recirculating dozens of evergreen archive pieces per day
Pitching stories to our syndication partners including Apple News, Flipboard, Digg, and Yahoo
Organizing and maintaining our archives
Analyze data and tracking statistics, and work collaboratively to develop our social strategies
Work with content from all verticals on both websites and the video team
Working with teams across the company in a fast-paced environment
Juggling multiple tasks and deadlines at once and pivoting from one task to the next without missing a beat
Making the correct judgment calls based on what they’ve been trained on

Additionally, candidates for the audience fellowship should have:

Work experience with one or more social media platforms
Experience working with breaking news
Experience working with editorial and journalism
Some familiarity with distribution of social video
Experience with content management systems
Experience with Photoshop
Interest in data collection and analysis
Comfort working in a fast-paced environment and juggling multiple daily responsibilities

Salary

Fellows are paid £24,000 pro-rata
Fellows get 10 days annual leave during the 6-month period
This position starts in Jan 2024 and requires that you work full-time for six months.

Insider is a flexible workplace when it comes to remote work, but an important part of the fellowship is being a part of the newsroom in person for learning opportunities. Fellows are asked to come into our offices in London at least two days a week.