NEWS RESEARCHER & INSIGHT ANALYST– CONTENT AND EDITORIAL – WALES

Hours Variable 7 hour shifts between 07:00 and 16:00

Monday - Friday

Total working hours are 35 hours per week.

Salary £24,500 – 2,500 per annum

Location Remote

Language Requirement English, Welsh Language Reading and Writing proficiency

Overview

Press Data is looking for a News Researcher and Insight Analyst, with Welsh Language proficiency to work within our Content and Editorial team, supporting our increasing number of clients requiring news content published and broadcast in Welsh.

Our Content and Editorial (Dayshift) team is responsible for monitoring press, broadcast and online content for an extensive list of clients. News Researchers/Analysts play a critical role in providing our media monitoring service with responsibility for viewing, assessing, and delivering news items to meet our clients’ complex requirements.

The team provide written summaries of broadcast programmes and verbatim transcripts of broadcast items for a range of clients. It is essential that all summaries and transcripts are accurate and delivered to meet tight deadlines.

In addition, team members are required to handle some content delivery to clients, ensuring the highest standards of quality control.

Working in Welsh, we analyse media coverage for sentiment and impact. There may be requirements to provide Insight Reports in Welsh.

Duties and responsibilities

• Monitoring of press, online and broadcast sources accurately to agreed time targets
• Accurate selection of items according to individual client requirements
• Handling client delivery and quality control responsibilities, delivering articles to agreed deadlines
• Writing and sending accurate, concise and summaries to meet tight deadlines, in English and Welsh.
• Writing verbatim transcripts of broadcast items as selected by clients
• Analysing Welsh Language news coverage for a range of evaluation metrics
• Writing Insight Reports in Welsh
• Maintaining and updating knowledge of client requirements, the media environment and working procedures
• Managing subscriptions and relationships with Welsh news publishers
• Any other reasonable tasks as assigned by management

Skills required

Excellent knowledge of UK and Welsh current affairs

· Ability to interpret and evaluate news articles accurately and at speed

· Welsh Language Proficiency

· Fast, accurate typing and good all-round IT skills

· Some writing/journalistic experience

· Good concentration levels within busy working environment

· Ability to work and communicate well within a team structure

· Ability to manage time to meet tight deadlines

The Candidate

We are ideally looking for a bright and enthusiastic graduate who can bring an all-round understanding of UK current affairs to the post.

The ability to produce accurate work to a series of tight deadlines is essential, as is the aptitude to interpret a large and diverse amount of information. A significant part of the successful applicant’s duties will involve working quickly and accurately with bespoke media monitoring software. Keyboard skills and some knowledge of IT processes will be an advantage.

As a growing company, we require all staff to develop a versatile range of skills in relation to a daily agenda where quality and consistency of service to our clients is of prime importance.

Company Background

Media Intelligence is a £3 billion a year global industry. As news media production, delivery and consumption changes, our industry has emerged as a highly dynamic, successful element of the communications cycle. And within this global market, the UK leads in terms of technology and expertise. Our industry is growing, and as an important supplier in the UK, Press Data is growing too.

Our role is to enable our clients to navigate the world of news media. Every day the amount of content published, broadcast and distributed grows exponentially. Our clients are the leading names in UK corporate and government and we supply the leadership of these organisations with highly filtered, concisely written digests that ensure they are constantly briefed on anything relevant to the activities of their organisations. Alongside this we provide their communications teams with planning and insight to support their own objectives – understanding media themes and agenda, message analysis, journalist and stakeholder engagement. Our products and services shape their thinking on how they manage their reputation, develop their communication strategy, and deliver measurable outcomes.

For over thirty years Press Data has been at the forefront of the UK industry. Our clients are a Who’s Who of business and government. During this time our media world has evolved and changed – from development of new technology, to changes in consumption and the growth of social media channels and in response to this Press Data has developed comprehensive solutions across the news cycle.

At the heart of what we do is the expertise, talent and experience of our team of researchers, editors and analysts who work on our round-the-clock operation, providing meaningful, insightful products to tight deadlines. Our emphasis is on quality, insightful writing, editorial selection and concise, targeted reporting.

Press Data is a training and learning organisation where professional development is enabled and encouraged. We aim to be a company where talented and aspiring people want to work, develop and succeed. Press Data works to continuously support equality, diversity and inclusion, focused on our belief that being more representative means we are better able to serve our clients and the communities in which we operate, bringing a wider range of experiences and views to our work.

Our services

Our Media Intelligence products and services include monitoring and analysis of all news sources, including print, broadcast, online and social media. Using cutting edge technological digital solutions, married with teams of highly experienced and knowledgeable media experts, we operate on a 24-hour cycle, 365 days of the year.

Pay: £24,500.00-£26,500.00 per year

Work Location: Remote