Picture editor - The Telegraph Media Group
The Telegraph
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Managing a team of picture editors, researchers and support staff to ensure the most impactful images are published. This will include defining responsibilities and resetting roles when needed.
- Overseeing distribution of picture desk resources on the team rota to ensure all major events are fully staffed.
- Managing a multi-million-pound annual budget including evaluating ongoing subscription deals and individual image licensing with third party partners.
- Reacting to breaking stories and identifying the best images for immediate publication on telegraph.co.uk and taking a proactive approach to ensure all pictures are promoted on site, in print articles and on social channels.
- Conceiving of the best opportunities for securing exclusive news photography and liaising with a team of contracted photographers to ensure optimum delivery.
- Building slideshows of the best images to pitch to executive editors at news conference and curating a tight edit of the day's best photographic content.
- Liaising with news and digital editors to ensure fast and accurate publishing plans.
- Commissioning exclusive picture sets that can be published in picture gallery format, encouraging new subscriptions and engagement for current registered and subscribed readers.
- Identifying pictures that can be used in our exceptional wide-format articles and working with visual editors to source the right pictures.
- Using your proven managerial skills to ensure the picture tasting and picture research operations run at an optimum level.
- Confidence, tenacity and resilience is needed to successfully pitch pictures to the senior editorial team at conference, you will also be able to explore opportunities that arise from resulting conversations.
- Significant experience in a deputy or senior picture editor role
- Proven experience of managing a seven-figure budget
- Demonstrable knowledge of the Telegraph's photography style and content
- A full understanding of licensing, copyright, legal and IPSO obligations
- A practical approach to problem solving including the ability to manage several projects running concurrently
- Experience of change management would be advantageous
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