Senior Copywriter at Historic Newspapers

What we do at Historic Newspapers

At Historic Newspapers, we are proud custodians of the world’s largest collection of privately owned ORIGINAL newspapers. A truly unique gifting option, we have papers available for 99% of dates over the last 100+ years. Having such a unique and comprehensive archive has also allowed us to create a range of exciting Newspaper Book products. These collections of newspaper reproductions make wonderful birthday, anniversary or special date presents.

We work with a large range of newspapers in the UK and US to design and develop an
unparalleled range of personalised newspaper gifts.

Historic Newspapers is now part of Wonderbly

Wonderbly is an award-winning personalised children’s publisher, and the Children’s Publisher of the Year 2021. It all started in 2013 with a story called Lost My Name. And now, we’ve sold over six million books in nine languages all over the world, helping to make story time more magical for lots and lots of children (and their grown-ups).

A bit about the role:

You’ll collaborate closely with our Creative Director, as well as the creative and marketing teams, on a variety of exciting projects. Your work will include crafting engaging product entries, attention-grabbing headlines for brand campaigns, and compelling editorial content for our books.

Taking briefs from the marketing and web teams to work on them as a team or individually.

Presenting written concepts to stakeholders and taking away feedback to continuously improve.

• Creating captivating copy for the web and marketing teams.
• Researching and writing pages of editorial for our special interest newspaper books
• Ensuring that all the copy presented by Historic newspapers is consistent and follows our tone of voice guidelines

Requirements

The person we’re looking for

We’re looking for a driven and enthusiastic Senior Copywriter to join our Creative team. It’s a chance to use your creative brilliance to help our team deliver high-quality, premium campaigns and products for Historic Newspapers as we grow. We’re a kind, positive bunch of people (and animals – we love an office pup) who seek similar. Hard-working, creative people really float our boat – so send us examples of your written work!

Life as a Senior Copywriter at Historic Newspapers

• It’s your role to help tell the world all about Historic Newspapers and our brand purpose, and of course sell our wonderful books with beautifully written text across all channels.
• You’ll work with the rest of the team in producing your best work across book launches, email campaigns and other marketing initiatives.
• We are a small team. So we are looking for a self-starter who can work independently as well as part of a team. You will be expected to get involved in lots of areas of the business from marketing campaigns to product development. You should be adaptable as this is a varied and exciting role.
• We have recently completed a major re-branding exercise. Working with a top agency to bring our image up to date. Our website and redesigned products look fantastic—now we need a skilled copywriter to bring our new tone of voice to life. We’re looking for someone who can ensure our products, marketing materials, and website are consistently polished and compelling.
• You’ll always be on a mission to make Historic Newspapers sound and feel it’s very best, so you shouldn’t be afraid to make suggestions in evolving the written style when appropriate.

Hopefully you’ll have some or all of the following:

• At least 3 years copy writing experience.
• You feel at home delivering engaging yet consistent creative across all channels.
  Website, CRM, email, organic social and print.
• Experience of writing to tone of voice brand guidelines
• A selection of examples of high-impact, consumer-facing work.
• Excellent verbal, visual and written communication skills.
• Experience and a working knowledge of SEO preferred.
• Detail orientated and well organised.

Benefits

First and foremost, you should join Historic Newspapers because of the work. We’re on a mission to create exciting, inspirational and beautiful personalised books.

• Three/four days a week
• A pro-rata salary of up to £40,000 per annum.
• The chance to work on something your friends and family will fall in love with.
• We have a flexible, hybrid working model that you can tailor to suit what works best for you. We’re asking our staff to come into our lovely light filled Central London studio at least one day. a week and then to choose what works best for them for the rest of the time.
• 25 days plus 8 bank holidays.
• Pension scheme.
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Our team are committed to providing equal opportunities for employment regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, disability, family structure, socio-economic status, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis (it’s the law, but it’s also just the right thing to do).