AddressThe property team at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age is looking for a Deputy Property Editor who will help shape our coverage and assume a leadership role in the team.
The ideal candidate takes a keen interest in the state of the housing market and will be able to explain its ups and downs to a highly engaged audience.
This is a varied role that includes both writing and editing, as well as helping curate a mix of stories covering everything from house price movements to buying and selling trends, the rental crisis, the best suburbs and the prestige property market.
Reporting to the national Property Editor, this is a Tuesday to Saturday position that includes editing auction coverage on Saturdays, regularly working the 11am-7pm Saturday shift.
Day to day you will:
- Pitch original stories for self and others, including national and local stories, daily and longer-term projects
- Write news leads and liaise with the national Property Editor on copy flows
- Maintain relationships with contacts and generating story ideas from contacts
- Work with data with a high degree of accuracy and clarity
- Absorb and retain a large volume of news and information about the property market
- Consider feedback from analytics in shaping story selection
- Manage multiple competing deadlines
- Edit colleagues’ copy when required
- Edit Saturday auction coverage, including liaising with reporters on auction selection, briefing weekend editors and homepage editors, editing copy, and complaint resolution
