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We are The Scottish Sun. The Scottish Sun is Scotland's No.1, award-winning newsbrand. The Scottish Sun cares about quality of life, the kind of world we live in, and about people. The Scottish Sun is more than a newspaper. It is an instigator, an entertainer, a cultural reference point, a finger on the pulse and a daily relationship. The Scottish Sun strives to the very highest standards of accuracy in its reporting, and continues to invest in original journalism in print and online.

Your role: You will play a crucial role in ensuring our sports coverage is accurate, engaging, and up to our high standards. You will be responsible for sub-editing sports stories, headlines, and captions, ensuring they are clear, concise, and grammatically correct. You will work closely with our sports reporters and editors to ensure our content is delivered in a timely manner and adheres to our house style.

Day to day you will:

• Reviewing sports content, checking facts to ensure stories are accurate and legally safe and subbing to the Scottish Sun's high standards, quickly and accurately.


• Consulting with reporter/writer and desk heads to resolve issues with copy, suggest new angles and keeping chief subs informed on changes that arise.


• Maintain a wide knowledge of sports, current affairs and trends through reading various titles as well as utilising other media platforms daily.


• Working flexibly as part of a team across a seven-day rota, producing up to 17 pages a day plus three weekend pullouts.


• Maintaining The Scottish Sun's reputation for eye-grabbing headlines.


• Meticulous fact-checking and attention to detail to ensure our pages are as clean as they can.


• Regularly stepping up to join the chief subbing team.
  
  Experienced sub-editors who ideally will already have worked on a sport desk.


• Sports fans who have a passion for sport and a good all-round knowledge.


• Team players who will slot seamlessly into a friendly subs desk.


• Tabloid story-tellers who can spot hidden gems in reams of copy.


• People who are eager for responsibility and the chance to advance their careers.
  
  We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.


Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;


• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;


• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;


• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.


• Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions


• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes


• 'Bikes for Work' scheme


• Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling