Senior Reporter

Overview

Job Title: Senior Reporter

Brand: C&IT

Reporting To: Senior Editor

Location: Twickenham, Greater London

Hybrid: 3 days per week in the office, 2 days working remotely

Employment: Permanent, Full-Time

Salary Range: £32,000 - £35,000 per annum

ABOUT THE JOB

Working within C&IT

Conference & Incentive Travel (C&IT) is the definitive source of news, intelligence and creative strategy for the MICE industry. We serve a senior audience of agency leaders, corporate event directors, experiential creative consultants and conference planners, who conceive and deliver high-stakes brand events, activations, global summits, and incentive programs worldwide.

You are a tenacious reporter, able to uncover how top agencies and planners are working, their strategies, programs and innovative events.

Responsibilities

The Role

• We are hiring an ambitious Senior Reporter to take direct ownership of our core industry beat.

• In this role, you will uncover how top events agencies and corporate event planners work – their creative priorities, stakeholder strategies, pitches, operational challenges and more. You will get scoops, break stories, and secure interviews with influential executives on trends that agency founders, corporate directors, and creative consultants treat as essential daily reading.

• You will join a small, focused editorial team where your work directly shapes the brand’s voice. In addition to driving a fast-paced daily news agenda, you will dig into the data behind the headlines, curate must-read daily bulletins, and extend our reporting into multimedia storytelling formats. As this is a senior role, you will also have the editorial judgment to run the news desk independently on occasions when cover is needed.

Key Responsibilities

Fast-Paced Daily News Ownership

• Proactively hunt down original scoops and agenda setting news including account movements, creative and tech strategy shifts, pitch wins, and leadership shake-ups before competitors.

• Write news with speed and precision.

• Conduct in-depth, data-led sector analysis and investigative reporting on key industry tensions, from venue and supplier inflation to AI adoption, experiential ROI, and event sustainability.

• Adhere to strict style, tone and warm voice of C&IT with rigorous copy that cuts through corporate PR spin while keeping editorial integrity.

• Confidently manage the day-to-day news desk and coordinate publishing deadlines during periods when the Senior Editor is out of the office or travelling.

Essential Bulletins, Socials & Multimedia

• Attending daily news briefing to contribute pitches and leads for deep analysis of trends.

• Prepare and send daily email bulletins that drive site traffic, registration growth, and subscriber engagement.

• Support C&IT’s visibility and growth across social channels, where our audience consumption is strongest.

• Work with Senior Editor to assess analytics tools to evaluate story performance, understand reader habits, and identify recurring coverage opportunities.

Field Reporting, Networking & Live Events

• Actively get on the phone and out of the office to build a deep, trusted black book of C-suite sources, PCOs, creative strategists, agency founders, and trade bodies.

• Live event reporting where you will deliver rapid, insightful live coverage from flagship industry forums, press trips, activations, and C&IT’s own Forums.

• Represent C&IT authoritatively at industry gatherings, speaking sessions at our own events, and networking meet-ups.

Skills / Experience / Knowledge / Minimum Criteria

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Knowledge

• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of audience engagement.

• Good understanding of media law and employment legislation relevant to editorial teams.

• Understanding of customer publishing processes and stakeholder relationship management.

• Excellent market knowledge relevant to the events, meetings and business travel sectors.

• Strong understanding of the interrelationship between editorial, commercial, marketing and events functions.

• Financial awareness and understanding of commercial publishing objectives.

Skills

• Excellent writing, editing, sub-editing and proofreading skills.

• Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills.

• Strong project management, organisational and people management skills.

• Excellent decision-making and prioritisation skills.

• Creativity and innovation.

• High level of computer literacy, including content management systems, publishing software and Microsoft Office applications.

• Strong understanding of media law, libel, copyright and ethical reporting standards.

• NCTJ qualification or equivalent grounding is desirable.

Experience

• Experience working in digital journalism or B2B trade reporting experience.

• Experience covering MICE industry and events, media, advertising, travel or corporate business is advantageous.

• Demonstrable experience running a fast-paced news service, prioritising breaking news stories, and working under daily digital deadlines.

• Confident picking up the phone, cultivating real sources, and consistently landing exclusives and expanding content books.

• Significant editorial experience within magazine, digital or B2B publishing environments.

• Experience representing brands publicly, including chairing or speaking at industry events.

• Experience working collaboratively with commercial, marketing and events teams to deliver business objectives.

About You

Describe the behaviours expected from someone successful in this role.

Examples include:

• Curious and proactive

• Adaptable

• Ability to stay calm under pressure

• Collaborative

• Acts with integrity

What Success Looks Like

How will success in this role typically be measured?

• Consistently produces accurate, engaging and high-quality editorial content.

• Builds strong industry relationships, securing exclusive stories and original content.

• Demonstrates sound editorial judgement, identifying breaking news and emerging trends.

• Independently manages the news agenda, meeting deadlines with minimal supervision.

• Drives audience engagement and contributes to the publication's growth.

• Collaborates effectively and contributes to wider editorial objectives.

Additional Information

Why work with us at Haymarket?

Haymarket Media Group values its people and strives to shape a better future with remarkable content. From paid content and subscription services; to integrated advertising and content marketing packages. We deliver market-leading branded experiences that inspire great decisions. From data and digital information solutions to live events, awards and professional education services.

Our benefits include:

Our Company benefits:

• 25 days holiday per year excluding bank holidays (increasing 1 day per year of service up to 30 days)

• Work from anywhere in the world for up to 3 weeks of the year with our ‘Work from Anywhere’ days

• Flexible working hours (core hours from 10-3) allowing you the flexibility to adapt your work schedule to your personal commitments

• Generous contributory pension scheme

• Health Cash Plans: With our health cash plans, you can access a range of healthcare benefits, including coverage for medical expenses, dental care, optical services, and more

Disability Confident Employer

We are a Disability Confident employer and offer guaranteed interviews to all disabled applicants who meet the above minimum criteria.

To be considered as part of this initiative, please ensure you indicate if you have a disability when applying for the post. If you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to fully participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at recruitment@haymarket.com.

More about Haymarket

Working here means being part of a commitment to shaping a better future. As a proudly Certified B Corp™, we are part of a global movement of businesses acting as a force for good. Haymarket Impact is focused on making a positive difference globally, guided by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and intertwined with an unwavering commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion. This commitment to balancing profit with purpose is deeply embedded in our culture, reflected in our values of Integrity, Respect, Creativity, Innovation, and Expertise.

We invest heavily in our people. From professional development and internal training to mentorship and coaching. Our certified Disability Confident status has fostered an environment where all employees feel supported, valued, and can ask for workplace adjustments without fear of judgment.

Our valuable partnerships for good globally mean colleagues are always up for taking on a new charitable challenge, utilise their volunteering day and go out of their way to support their local communities.

We know how important a healthy work-life balance is too. Our flexible hours and hybrid working model means employees are expected to be in the office at least three days a week and can work remotely for the remaining two. This means we thrive together when we collaborate in person, fostering stronger connections and creativity, but still allowing for flexibility outside of those times.

As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to ensuring all candidates have the same opportunity to succeed, regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age, or disability. In line with our dedication to fairness and transparency, we are also proud to be a We Show the Salary employer, pledging to always include pay details on our job adverts.

Join us and be part of award-winning teams and a culture that is truly unique - a place to grow, feel inspired, build a brilliant career and make a difference.