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Job Summary

To oversee and write the bulk of PCGamer.com’s news content on UK hours, as well as assist the Online Editor and Editor-in-Chief with feature creation and other duties. As PC Gamer focuses more on news than ever, you’ll play a key role in leading and planning our news strategy, helping to decide what makes a great PC Gamer story. You’ll study what brings our audience to the website, and tailor our output accordingly.

You’ll also help generate feature ideas that can be executed by the global team, and assist with any aspect of PCGamer.com that requires your expertise. You’ll uncover great stories before rival sites, using a variety of sources. You’ll be able to demonstrate experience of doing this in a past news writer or editor role.

Key role responsibilities

  • Creating news and features for PCGamer.com and sometimes PC Gamer magazine to our high standards.
  • Maintaining the daily news feed on PCGamer.com with accurate, entertaining reporting.
  • Promoting news and features through PC Gamer’s social media channels and optimising stories for SEO.
  • Editing the work of others, and assigning news stories to other staff when time is up against us.
  • Developing industry contacts that’ll yield stories in the future, whether for cool indie games or big blockbusters.
  • Attending industry trade shows and press events on our behalf.
  • Standardising and improving our methodology around news.
  • Commissioning news writers to cover PCGamer.com on weekends and during other absences.
  • Generating engaging, inventive feature ideas for the website and occasionally the magazine.
  • Reviewing new releases when required.

Requirements of the role

  • Prepared to travel internationally and within the UK.
  • Some after hours work required.
  • Working in our Bath office is preferred, but we will make exceptions for remote working with the right candidate.

Essential skills and experience

  • 2-3 years of consistent experience as a freelance news writer on a games website, or full-time experience as a writer in games media or a related field.
  • A comprehensive understanding of how online news works in the current media environment, and how audiences discover news stories now.
  • A demonstrable passion for PC gaming.
  • A highly tuned affinity for the online audience, and what they are looking for.
  • Strong organisational skills.
  • Some background of developing contacts in games or a related industry.

Desirable skills and experience

  • Interest in video and streaming.