Content Editor, Hotels and Destination Guides

This role will play a key part in the editing and publishing of Telegraph Travel’s award-winning digital content, primarily our industry-leading hotel reviews and destination guides. Working as part of a small team within the wider department.

Key Responsibilities

To edit and produce evergreen digital hotel review and destination guide pages, new and updated, to a high standard of quality, enabling the hotels team to meet its publishing targets.
To support the Senior Commissioning Editor, Hotels; Senior Content Editor, Hotels and Commissioning Editor, Destination Guides with commissioning of hotel reviews and destination guides as required.
To support the Senior Commissioning Editor, Hotels in updating and improving existing evergreen content, and the planning of this.
To generate ideas, both “live” and evergreen, that will enable Travel to meet its publishing targets.
To find news ways to drive engagement with travel content, particularly on social media.

Key Skills

Experience editing copy independently, to a high standard.
Experience selecting appropriate imagery.
Able to work in a fast-moving environment, publishing at speed and to deadline.
Able to spot legal issues (particularly defamation) and act appropriately.
Able to work collaboratively with a team.

Desirable Skills

Able to work collaboratively with a team.
A background in travel journalism – and ideally, a good working knowledge of hotels specifically.
An understanding of what our audience wants to read.
Experience working with a range of writers and contributors, liaising with them and managing their copy

Application closing date: 30th November 2023