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DC Thomson
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Description

Location
London office on Fleet Street

Hours
Full time, hours as required to meet deadlines and event attendance

Salary
Competitive salary offered

About the Role
Stylist, the multi-platform women’s media brand, is hiring a Writer to join our London team. You will be responsible for originating and writing content across our website, paywall, and print platforms, ensuring all content is accurately written to brief, on deadline, and targeted to our intelligent, female-identifying audience and aspirational advertisers. The role includes attending awards ceremonies, industry events, film screenings, and opportunities to connect with brands. You will join a brand that supports internal career development, offering a clear path to progression into Senior Writer and Assistant Editor roles. Key responsibilities include generating unique, exciting, and exclusive news and feature ideas from pitch to publication; applying thorough SEO knowledge to digital content; monitoring post-publication performance to meet KPIs; maintaining an understanding of Stylist readers’ and advertisers’ tastes and interests; forward planning for seasonal and trend-led features; monitoring social media to adapt to audience needs; maintaining relationships with key contacts, experts, and PRs; representing the brand at events or in media when needed; and ensuring all content meets Stylist’s brand guidelines. This description outlines main responsibilities but may evolve as team priorities change.

Requirements

Experience
Proven experience as a journalist or writer, ideally focused on lifestyle or women's media. Demonstrable ability to file clear copy with minimal supervision. Strong digital publishing skills including SEO, CMS, and social media content creation. A keen understanding of Stylist’s tone, audience, and editorial values. Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. Confident in using data to inform content strategy and performance. A proactive, ideas-driven mindset with a passion for storytelling that informs, inspires, and empowers.

About you
Collaborative across teams, owns outcomes and follows issues through, learns and adapts to improve workflows, experiments with purpose to enhance delivery, acts with curiosity and seeks better ways of working. Comfortable creating multimedia content including video and appearing on camera is desirable. Exposure to Content Management Systems such as Wordpress or similar is advantageous; training is provided.

Qualifications
No formal qualifications required; however, strong writing skills and relevant experience are essential. A passion for storytelling and digital publishing is key.

Expiry date: 26/09/2026
Writer
Company:
DC Thomson
Job Type:
Full-time
Location:
London