What's the role?
Are you ready to execute and deliver a compelling lifestyle content offering across News24.com.au and social platforms? We are looking for a Deputy Lifestyle Editor with a sharp editorial eye and a deep understanding of lifestyle audiences to drive content that engages, inspires, and retains readers. In this senior editorial role, you will combine hands-on content production with mentoring and audience development to strengthen News24's lifestyle presence across both Australian and international contexts.
About the role:
Uphold and model high editorial standards across all lifestyle content, ensuring accuracy, quality, and consistency with News24 tone and brand.
Support the Lifestyle Editor in the day-to-day editorial planning of lifestyle content across health, entertainment, culture, food, travel, relationships, and trending topics.
Provide editorial guidance, feedback, and mentoring to reporters and producers within the lifestyle team, supporting their development and output quality.
Oversee publishing workflows across the lifestyle vertical, and curate the lifestyle section of News24.com.au with strong editorial judgment based on relevance, performance, and audience interest.
Develop and pitch original content ideas, identifying emerging lifestyle trends and translating them into timely, relevant, and engaging content opportunities.
Collaborate with breaking news, digital, broadcast, and video teams to ensure lifestyle stories are supported by compelling visuals and to develop platform-specific content.
Build and maintain relationships with external contributors, publicists, and industry contacts to support original lifestyle content development.
Who are you?
You make confident, senior editorial decisions on content selection, angle, and presentation with a strong sense for what resonates with lifestyle audiences.
You demonstrate deep knowledge of lifestyle topics including health, entertainment, culture, food, travel, and relationships, alongside a clear understanding of digital audience expectations.
You support the growth and development of team members through constructive feedback, editorial guidance, and a collaborative approach to lifting team capability.
You are proficient in WordPress CMS, metadata conventions, SEO practices, homepage curation, and multimedia publishing workflows.
You produce and edit clean, engaging, platform-appropriate copy across articles, headlines, captions, and social content.
You use audience data and performance insights to inform content decisions and support engagement across the lifestyle vertical.
You perform at a high standard under pressure, managing competing priorities and fast-moving content demands while maintaining resilience and editorial quality.
Why News Corp Australia
Join a culture where innovation is our operating rhythm. You’ll work on a diverse portfolio of Australia’s most loved brands and play a pivotal role in leading the technological shift in how we create commercial content. Our vibrant, hybrid work environment and dynamic, values-driven culture empowers you to push boundaries, collaborate as one unified team, and make a positive, measurable impact for all Australians.
News Extras Benefits is a commitment to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities.
Our benefits include:
- Exclusively ours - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
- Perks & discounts - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services that deliver genuine cost savings and benefits
- Health & wellbeing - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)
- Time off - News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.
- Financial wellbeing - Support on making the most of your money
In addition to our perks and benefits, employees have access to a number of initiatives and programs that support their wellbeing and professional growth, such as:
- Helping you grow - Access tailored development opportunities, including leadership programs, to cultivate your skills and support your career
- Giving back - Make a difference to our communities through volunteer opportunities and company-organised charity drives
- Workplace Inclusion and facilities – Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents’ rooms
Who are we?
News24 (formerly Sky News Australia) - Australia’s first live 24-hour news channel - is the home of Australia’s top rating opinion shows, award-winning political coverage, live breaking news, sport and weather, expert business insights and groundbreaking documentaries.
Bringing a unique Australian perspective to the world, News24 champions open discussion and presents a broad range of perspectives on the issues that matter most.
Delivering real news and honest views, it reflects the many voices of Australia and provides space for all sides of every debate to help inform decisions.
The multi-platform network reaches more than 11.3 million Australians each month across broadcast and digital platforms. It is the number one non-sport channel on national subscription television service Foxtel and the country’s most engaging digital news brand.
News24’s unrivalled 24-hour multi-platform news service is owned and operated by Australian News Channel Pty Ltd (ANC). ANC is owned by News Corp Australia, a subsidiary of News Corp.
ANC operates and distributes News24 branded broadcast and streaming services including News24, News24 Weather, News24 World, News24 Regional, News24 Now and News24 in New Zealand, as well as FOX SPORTS News in Australia. ANC also operates an expansive digital network including leading news site News24.com.au and digital radio channel News24 Radio.
News24 has a national presence with its headquarters operating out of Sydney and interstate bureaus in Canberra’s Parliament House, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, the Gold Coast, Adelaide, Darwin and Hobart. It also has international bureaus in the United States (Washington DC), Asia (Taiwan) and New Zealand (Wellington).
What’s next?
Apply now or for more information on careers at News24 (https://dowjones.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/News24_Careers)
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Diversity strengthens our national teams and newsroom as we seek to tell stories that represent the communities of Australia. Our people make us unique, and so we are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability or gender identity. Applicants of diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply!
We are committed to ensuring an accessible and supportive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments or accommodations at any stage, please do not hesitate to let us know here (http://[email protected]) . In order for us to assist you, please ensure you include the role title you are applying for in the subject line. For more information regarding Diversity at NewsCorp Australia please visit www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers under the Diversity@News section.
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News24
News24 (formerly Sky News Australia) - Australia’s first live 24-hour news channel - is the home of Australia’s top rating opinion shows, award-winning political coverage, live breaking news, sport and weather, expert business insights and groundbreaking documentaries.
Bringing a unique Australian perspective to the world, News24 champions open discussion and presents a broad range of perspectives on the issues that matter most.
Delivering real news and honest views, it reflects the many voices of Australia and provides space for all sides of every debate to help inform decisions.
The multi-platform network reaches more than 11.3 million Australians each month across broadcast and digital platforms. It is the number one non-sport channel on national subscription television service Foxtel and the country’s most engaging digital news brand.
News24’s unrivalled 24-hour multi-platform news service is owned and operated by Australian News Channel Pty Ltd (ANC). ANC is owned by News Corp Australia, a subsidiary of News Corp.
ANC operates and distributes News24 branded broadcast and streaming services including News24, News24 Weather, News24 World, News24 Regional, News24 Now and News24 in New Zealand, as well as FOX SPORTS News in Australia. ANC also operates an expansive digital network including leading news site News24.com.au and digital radio channel News24 Radio.
News24 has a national presence with its headquarters operating out of Sydney and interstate bureaus in Canberra’s Parliament House, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, the Gold Coast, Adelaide, Darwin and Hobart. It also has international bureaus in the United States (Washington DC), Asia (Taiwan) and New Zealand (Wellington).
