About Us

We are a leading integrated media and marketing services company at the heart of a community of over 590,000 UK healthcare professionals. With more than 30 years of experience, we produce industry-leading content and experiences through our award-winning brands, publications, and events. We produce trusted, data-driven content that informs and inspires healthcare professionals across the UK and Europe. We are a Great Place to Work and UK’s Best Workplaces for Women certified employer, offering a range of benefits including 28 days annual leave (rising to 30 days after 2 years) excluding bank holidays, private healthcare insurance, flexible working and more.

About The Role

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.

The reporter 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 editorial 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

Key Skills and Experience

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

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.

How To Apply

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.

Please note that due to the expected high numbers of applications, we are able to only contact successful candidates. Also, while there is no application deadline for this role, interviews will be arranged as and when suitable candidates apply and we reserve the right to close applications at any time once a successful candidate has been selected. No recruitment agencies please.

Location: Central London (Hybrid)
Reporting to: Deputy Editor, The Pharmacist, Pulse PCN and Healthcare Leader
Expected start date: January 2027
Salary: £27,000+ per annum, depending on experience

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