Trending News Reporter

Newsquest is looking for a top-class trending news reporter to help lead its online coverage across the UK. Every day our online news brands reach millions of people right across the UK, and you’ll be joining a team of driven, innovative journalists taking our search content to the next level as Newsquest invests in the future of its industry-leading digital coverage. ) trending news stories, features and lifestyle content.

The key for this role is tapping into these topics and making them not only relevant but insightful for local audiences, as well as keeping on top of what is resonating in your area. You’ll be delivering the sort of fast, agile and dynamic coverage optimised for SEO that our readers expect and deserve in 2026 – often before they know they want to read it. You’ll be passionate about digital storytelling, with a desire to come up with new and innovative ways of telling those stories using a vast array of different skills, tools and platforms.

A big part of the job will also be immersing yourself in social media through various monitoring tools to help you tell your stories and spot the next big thing, whether that be hard news, showbiz and TV, celebrity, news features, explainers and ‘news you can use’. We want to give our readers the content they want to read, when they want to read it. Your job will be to anticipate this and use your sparkling writing skills to ensure our coverage is the best, and where local audiences choose to come first.