Senior Writer bei dmg::media

Senior Writer – iweekend

Location: London

Role Overview

We are looking for a talented and versatile Senior Writer to join the award-winning iweekend team – the i paper’s best-selling print edition.

This is a rare opportunity to help shape the agenda of a national newspaper that prides itself on accuracy, clarity, and independence. The successful candidate will deliver high-impact features and lifestyle content that distinguish iweekend from its competitors.

You will work across a broad brief and play a key role in commissioning and editing across our weekend output, with a particular focus on the 7 Days supplement. 

We’re looking for an experienced journalist with sharp instincts, clean copy, and a keen sense of what matters to modern weekend readers.

Key Responsibilities

• Write standout features, interviews and news-led reports that help define the tone and authority of iweekend
• Pitch original cross-platform ideas with strong angles that reflect i’s values of clarity, depth, and accessibility
• Work closely with editors to develop fresh, agenda-setting content across a wide range of topics
• Commission and edit freelance contributors, ensuring consistency of tone, accuracy, and flair
• Contribute ideas for cover stories and support the team in shaping the overall edition each week
• Collaborate across departments to ensure stories resonate on all platforms
• Ensuring print output is mirrored across digital platforms
• Uphold i’s commitment to impartial, high-quality journalism

The right candidate must have:

• Experience writing and editing features for a national newspaper or magazine
• A strong track record of producing engaging, well-researched features and interviews
• Excellent editorial judgment and a strong nose for the kind of stories that drive weekend readership
• Versatility and the ability to write across a range of topics
• A clear, accessible writing style and attention to detail under pressure
• Experience in digital publishing, and a willingness to learn and embrace new methods of storytelling
• An understanding of the i paper’s voice and values, including a commitment to impartiality
• An ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced editorial environment
• Strong organisational and planning skills

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
• Pension plan and life cover
• Discounts on online shopping, dining cards and vouchers, and access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Onsite gym, subsidised canteen and onsite nurse and GP clinics
• Plus much more...

About Us

DMG::MEDIA

dmg media maintains an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most. Its brands Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, Metro, The i Paper, MailOnline, and Mail+ reach more than 9 million people daily in the UK.

Globally, dmg media’s brands reach 160 million unique browsers every month across its domains and apps. Its global newsroom of journalists, formidable story-getting power, and breadth of content formats, delivers highly engaging, trusted content to loyal and new audiences, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Mail brand reaches three in five Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country. It is the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 28 million total followers and nearly 45 billion views in the past year.

www.dmgmedia.co.uk

THE I PAPER

The i Paper is the only national newspaper that's never supported a political party and it reaches more than 9.2 million readers each month in print and online.

It is committed to delivering accurate, impartial news and intelligent debate, trusting readers to make up their own minds. It is the winner of 2024 UK Newspaper of the Year and is rapidly growing its digital subscriptions base, recently hitting 70,000 total subscriptions.