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About this Features Writer - Fixed Term, 6 month mat cover role at The Telegraph

The Telegraph · Onsite · London, England, United Kingdom

About The Role

The Telegraph’s Features team provides original, entertaining and inspiring content for our readers.

In this role, you will work across the features desk to write features, interviews and provide colour reporting.

Working in a fast-paced, news-driven environment you’ll be confident in managing both tight daily deadlines and longer lead pieces.

You will be able to spot exclusives and opportunities for agenda setting content that will create national talking points and push the Telegraph ahead of its competitors.

Curiosity in the news agenda, alongside a network of key contacts, sources and experts, will be essential to ensure that you have a constant supply of ideas.

Closing Date: 26th August 2026

Key Responsibilities

  • Providing all types of high-quality content - from quick turnaround reported features and ghost-written articles to on the ground news colour pieces, richly-researched long reads, investigations and big interviews
  • Highly engaged with the news agenda and confident in pitching features angles on breaking news stories and wider trends, as well as zeitgeisty ideas that break new ground
  • Able to deliver clean copy to tight deadlines
  • Constantly seeking out original ideas for features content
  • Building a strong network of contacts to secure exclusives, ensuring that the Telegraph are ahead of the competition
  • Liaising with teams such as visual journalism and video to explore innovative ways to tell stories

Key Skills

  • A proven track record of reporting and writing short and long stories, news features, interviews,
  • dispatches, vox pops to tight deadlines
  • Good investigative and persuasion skills
  • Flexibility and availability to travel at short notice
  • Full knowledge of media law is required
  • Understand what drives digital engagement in a subscription-based organisation
  • A good understanding of the Telegraph's tone and audience

Our benefits

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.

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About The Telegraph

Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is an award-winning multimedia news publisher, trusted for quality, authority, and credibility for over 165 years. We produce Telegraph.co.uk, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Telegraph Magazine, and the Telegraph app.

As a leading news company, we deliver print and digital coverage across politics, sports, finance, lifestyle, travel, health, culture, technology, and more.

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