Print Audience and Content Editor
Application Deadline: 27 June 2025
Department: Editorial
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Southampton
Reporting To: Benjamin Fishwick
Description
Newsquest Media Group is looking for a Print ACE (Audience and Content Editor) to work on subbing and designing pages across our daily and weekly titles in our South West newspaper print production hub.
Key Responsibilities
This role will see you allocate, edit and send pages ready for publication on our flagship titles in the region, including the Bournemouth Echo, the Falmouth Packet in Cornwall, and the Isle of Wight County Press.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
You will ideally be well-versed in editing copy while also possessing design skills to work on our front pages, ensuring they stand out on newsstands. It’s a fast-paced working environment with plenty to do, so being flexible for early, late, and weekend work on a rota basis—and having a positive attitude—is key.
Experience working as a sub-editor or page designer in a newspaper is an advantage.
The role can be in any of our South West offices or home-based.
To be considered, please send your CV and cover note by clicking Apply Now.
About Newsquest Media Group
We are a media company with a difference. We are committed to bringing a voice to your region by investing in a passionate team of journalists who proudly serve their communities by sharing authoritative news that readers trust. Our sales teams provide local businesses with highly responsive digital advertising and marketing solutions.
We are one of the largest regional news publishers in the UK and have a portfolio of more than 250+ local news brands and magazines online and in print. With an online audience of 41 million users a month and 7 million readers a week in print, our content is read by a substantial proportion of the UK population.
In addition to our local news brands, we own a number of digital pure play and specialist media businesses such as s1jobs and s1homes, Exchange & Mart, and Newsquest Specialist Media. We also own LOCALiQ, an award-winning digital marketing agency that specialises in driving more leads, increasing online growth and generating return on marketing investment on behalf of thousands of UK SMBs.