Homepage Editor
News Corp Australia
Date: 10 hours ago
City: Surry Hills, New South Wales
Contract type: Full time
What's the role?
Lead the curation of State & Community (S&C) homepage modules and key digital channels. This role is crucial in ensuring our premium journalism reaches the right audiences at the right time - and drives subscriptions, engagement, and impact.
Working within a national distribution team, you’ll collaborate effectively with section editors across health, education, business, food, and national series - and metro digital teams to drive the strongest audience outcome.
You’ll shape a homepage that reflects editorial priorities, breaks news, and responds dynamically to audience behaviour throughout the day.
About The Role
News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities. Thanking them for the great things they do daily, for the greater good of Australia. Our benefits include:
News Corp Australia is the nation’s number one and most influential media organisation with more than 150 prestige brands across news, sport, and lifestyle. Each month more than 17 million Australians choose to consume news and information from News Corp’s digital and print products – more than any other media group in Australia
What’s next?
Apply now or for more information on careers at News Corp Australia visit www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion We know that diversity strengthens our teams and newsrooms as we seek to tell stories that represent the diverse communities of Australia that we serve. Our people make us unique and we all have a story. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, races, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, abilities and gender identities to apply. Inclusion is important to us and we want everyone at News to bring their whole-selves to work. If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, or would like to outline which pronouns you prefer, please feel free to let us know.
If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please feel free to let us know. For more information regarding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at NewsCorp Australia please visit www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers under the DEI section.
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State & Community Mastheads
Lead the curation of State & Community (S&C) homepage modules and key digital channels. This role is crucial in ensuring our premium journalism reaches the right audiences at the right time - and drives subscriptions, engagement, and impact.
Working within a national distribution team, you’ll collaborate effectively with section editors across health, education, business, food, and national series - and metro digital teams to drive the strongest audience outcome.
You’ll shape a homepage that reflects editorial priorities, breaks news, and responds dynamically to audience behaviour throughout the day.
About The Role
- The ideal candidate can be based in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, or Adelaide.
- Curate and update the homepage, ensuring a balance of breaking news, exclusives, analysis, and reader-first storytelling.
- Make real-time editorial decisions based on analytics, reader signals, and editorial value.
- Liaise with section editors, audience teams, and social/search producers to coordinate coverage and surface high-performing or high-impact content.
- Lead homepage strategy during peak shifts (early morning, evening, or weekend), including breaking news events.
- Use data and digital tools to inform decisions and optimise content placement.
- Contribute to the ongoing development of digital publishing best practices and experimentation, including A/B headline testing.
- Ensure content complies with legal and ethical standards and reflects our editorial values.
- Proven newsroom experience, ideally in a digital publishing or homepage editing role
- Exceptional news judgment and ability to work calmly under pressure.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across teams and disciplines.
- Comfortable interpreting audience analytics and turning insights into action.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
- Experience working with CMS and real-time analytics tools.
- Familiarity with audience funnel concepts and digital subscription strategy.
- A passion for quality journalism and a reader-first mindset.
News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities. Thanking them for the great things they do daily, for the greater good of Australia. Our benefits include:
- Exclusively ours - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
- 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.
- Helping you grow - Development opportunities (including diversity and inclusion - focused education series) and recognition
- Financial wellbeing - Support on making the most of your money
- Perks & discounts - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services
- Giving back - Make a difference to our communities.
- Workplace Inclusion and facilities – Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents’ rooms
News Corp Australia is the nation’s number one and most influential media organisation with more than 150 prestige brands across news, sport, and lifestyle. Each month more than 17 million Australians choose to consume news and information from News Corp’s digital and print products – more than any other media group in Australia
What’s next?
Apply now or for more information on careers at News Corp Australia visit www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion We know that diversity strengthens our teams and newsrooms as we seek to tell stories that represent the diverse communities of Australia that we serve. Our people make us unique and we all have a story. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, races, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, abilities and gender identities to apply. Inclusion is important to us and we want everyone at News to bring their whole-selves to work. If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, or would like to outline which pronouns you prefer, please feel free to let us know.
If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please feel free to let us know. For more information regarding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at NewsCorp Australia please visit www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers under the DEI section.
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State & Community Mastheads
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