Reporter, The Pharmacist

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We are looking for a reporter to join our editorial team, to hit the ground running and bring energy and drive to our award-winning publication The Pharmacist.

Pharmacy is one of the most rapidly changing sectors of the NHS, with expanding responsibilities for pharmacists working on the high street and in general practice, bringing with it a range of political, clinical, professional and business challenges and opportunities.

For a journalist interested in health, this competitive area is ripe for investigations, exclusives and informative news, to support our pharmacist community to thrive as they navigate the future.

News, interviews, features, podcasts, social media management and data-led investigations will be on your daily agenda.

Key skills will include extensive contact building, developing a good understanding of the day-to-day priorities of working pharmacists, seeking out key voices, attending events, data analysis, and searching out exclusives and leads for investigations.

This role is for a junior or a senior reporter. As a junior you will have an NCTJ or degree and ideally have had relevant work or freelance experience as a journalist. As a senior you will also have one to two years in a reporter role, preferably in the health sector.

You will report to the deputy editor and work closely with the editor.

The Pharmacist team works alongside our other brands including Pulse, Nursing in Practice, Healthcare Leader and Pulse PCN and there will also be some opportunity to write across these sectors at times.

We have exciting plans ahead for The Pharmacist and are looking for the right person to join our team, with ambition, talent, drive and great ideas.

You will work within a wider team in an innovative health-focused publishing company that offers hybrid working and a central London office. We would like you to spend one day a week (or more, if you like) in our offices in Farringdon, in the City of London.

Responsibilities

• Writing around two-three news stories a day, including one lead
• Finding exclusive stories
• Building contacts to share with the rest of the news team
• Writing news-led features and in-depth investigations
• Working within tight deadlines
• Going out to meetings and conferences
• Working with the rest of the team to shape the content and direction of Cogora’s publications, which cover the whole of primary care
• Uploading content to the website
• Developing and building weekly newsletters
• Developing and contributing to our social media
• Producing The Pharmacist’s monthly podcast
• Working with the wider Cogora Editorial Brands

Why Join Us

• You’ll uncover exclusive stories and produce impactful journalism that informs and supports the pharmacy community.
• You’ll collaborate with talented editors and journalists across respected healthcare publications.
• You’ll help shape conversations around pharmacy and healthcare policy while developing your journalism career.

Key skills

Essential

• A portfolio of news stories, which can be from school or university newspapers, local press or any other publication;
• An appetite for writing news in a fast-paced environment;
• The ability to write fast, accurate copy;
• A basic knowledge of the UK health sector.

Highly desirable

• Experience of working in a busy newsroom
• Some experience of writing about health policy
• Some experience of producing a podcast

Desirable, but not essential

• Related degree;
• Experience of data journalism

If you would like to join a progressive company with excellent career prospects and want to be part of our journey, then we are looking forward to hearing from you! We are looking to fill this role as soon as possible, so please send a CV, cover letter and examples of published work to Deputy Editor Joe Gammie joegammie@cogora.com and Editor Victoria Vaughan victoriavaughan@cogora.com or apply below.

Benefits

27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, your birthday and loyalty days

Option to purchase
additional holiday

Private healthcare
insurance

Cycle to work loan + Season
ticket loan

Flexible working hours and
working from home option

6 weeks full pay maternity leave and
2 weeks paternity

Pension
scheme

Volunteering / charity days
and contributions

About Cogora

Cogora is one of the UK’s leading full-service healthcare marketing agencies, building a reputation for excellence with over 30 years in the industry.

Through our market-leading brands and educational platforms, covering a range of therapy areas, we have cultivated and grown engaged communities of healthcare professionals, learning what they do, think and really need, in order to provide them with innovative and impactful education that helps them deliver high-quality care to patients.