Responsibilities

• Hold the media to account.
• A hands-on, cross-disciplinary role for someone who lives and breathes the news and wants to hold the media to account rather than just complain about it.
• Manage newsroom relations and press.
• Build relationships with journalists, editors and press offices. Write and coordinate press releases around our investigations, campaign launches and campaign wins.
• Coordinate campaigns and volunteers.
• Liaise with our volunteer network, manage campaign launches end to end (timing, copy, outreach, follow-up) and keep momentum going after launch day.
• Critically analyse the news.
• Read coverage the way we do: spot the framing, the omissions, the double standards and the sourcing tricks. Evaluate which stories deserve a NewsCord response.
• Produce short media analysis pieces.
• Use our in-house tech stack (cross-source coverage data, our bias-scoring pipeline, Claude) to turn raw analysis into sharp, evidence-led pieces.

Requirements

• You look beyond the mainstream narrative. You connect struggles to each other and to the powers at play, and you can back that instinct with evidence.
• You write with precision and restraint: no filler, no jargon, every claim checkable.
• You are organised enough to run a campaign calendar and a volunteer rota without being chased.
• You are comfortable being employee number one: scrappy, self-directed and happy to build the playbook as you go.
• Design sense matters. You know what stops a scroll and what gets skipped.

Preferred

• Recording short videos or voiceovers for news analysis explainers. Not required, but if you are comfortable on camera or behind a mic, we will put it to good use.

Benefits

• Canva Pro subscription
• Claude Max subscription
• Thaura Pro subscription
• Access to media events, press briefings and industry gatherings