Associate Picture Editor

Associate Picture Editor

Location: Metro Headquarters – London
Position: 1 year maternity cover – start January 2025

Minimum 3 days per week in our offices at High Street Kensington. Will include occasional night and weekend shifts as per demands of the rota.

The Metro is looking for a talented Associate Picture Editor to join our Online Picture Desk. The successful candidate will have experience of leading during night and weekend shifts and responsibilities will include going through the picture wires and identifying stories relevant for Metro across all sections of the site from News to Features, Entertainment and Sport.  You will also be able to identify the most pertinent images for each story and create appropriate composites to sit on the home page and our Social feeds.

Experience of working on an online picture desk is a must, as are excellent Photoshop skills. Any experience with building graphics is a plus.

Job description:

• Fulfil picture requests from the News Desk and other sections of the site
• Liaise with the Picture Editor on the content of the daily picture queues and follow up on stories developing throughout the day and source any additional photographic material needed.
• Photoshop skills needed to create composite previews using two or more images for use on the home page and our social media.
• Create graphics to illustrate stories if appropriate.
• Able to communicate with reporters to ensure we are using the best images to illustrate and sell the story.
• Communicate with the rest of the team to make sure the best person for each request is assigned to the right stories.

Must be flexible regarding shifts (including weekends and nights).

About dmg::media

dmg media’s brands deliver highly engaging, trusted content to millions of loyal customers around the globe, 24-hours a day, seven days a week. The Mail brand reaches one in two Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country.*

Together, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Mail+, Metro, Metro.co.uk, i and inews.co.uk reach more than 10.1m people daily in the UK.*

Globally, dmg media’s brands reach 190M unique browsers every month across its domains and apps.**

Our newsbrands maintain an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most to our readers, ensuring that we remain experts at delivering relevant and insightful content.

In October, the Mail became the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 7- million followers.

*PAMCo H2 2023 **GA 2023 September

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.