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🥇Your Ultimate Guide to Olympic Coverage: where and when to tune in 🥇 Today marks the beginning of the Olympic Games and our brands have you covered with stellar coverage across various platforms. Whether you’re a die-hard fan or catching up on highlights, here’s how to stay up to date: 🏃talkSPORT: Broadcasting live from Paris for the first time, talkSPORT will provide over 250 hours of coverage with commentary from Olympians Sir Steve Redgrave, Dame Kelly Holmes, Tessa Sanderson and Adam Gemili. Tune in from 7pm today for the opening ceremony, with shows running throughout the day and updates twice hourly. https://lnkd.in/ezMFnjn7 🏊The Times: Check out The Times for a full Paris Olympics 2024 schedule, insightful columns, including from four-time Olympic champion Michael Johnson and extensive coverage by award-winning journalists including Matt Lawton and Alyson Rudd. https://lnkd.in/eDMCTQeP 🏋️The Sun: Follow The Sun’s daily Olympics video starting on Monday July 29 finishing on Monday August 12. The show will be shot from news Studios and from Paris! The SunSport team will also be providing the colour and insight from Paris for the paper, website and all other Sun platforms. https://lnkd.in/erVmS4zJ Stay tuned for all the action! #Olympics2024 #ParisOlympics #talkSPORT #TheTimes #TheSun #NewsUK

🎸 We were thrilled to welcome Travis to our office last week for an exclusive Virgin Radio UK Sunset Session! 🎸 The intimate performance, enjoyed by News UK colleagues and Virgin Radio UK listeners, celebrated the release of Travis’ tenth studio album ‘L.A. Times’. 🤩 Fresh off their tour with The Killers, Travis is gearing up for their own 12-date UK headline tour in December. 🌟 Catch their live performance of ‘Why Does It Always Rain on Me?’ below https://lnkd.in/gvVSTcbR Travis also joined Chris Evans on Virgin Radio UK, performing fan favourites like "Sing," "Flowers in the Window," "Bus," and "Gaslight." Check out these performances on the Virgin Radio UK YouTube Channel here 👉https://lnkd.in/gJPZWp49

Congrats Jimmy. https://lnkd.in/e2z9NvJi

If you are on the lookout for an inspiring story, read about how the News UK Technology team banded together to take on this challenge: "How can we support the next generation’s digital skills so they can better embrace the fully digital future?" A great way to spend 6 minutes... Thanks to the team from News UK Tech who made this happen... Adam MacVeigh, Amaritpal Singh Saini, EMILY RICHARDS, Francesca Callard, Jack Britchford, Jasmina Jambresic, Kirsteen King, Mike Preston, Rebecca Frearson, Ruaridh McKay, Stephen Hill and Tolu Oni. https://lnkd.in/evWz_JMz #NewsUKTech #blog #outreach #STEM #CorporatePartnership #SocialCorporateResponsibility

⭐ Job of the week: External Communications Manager ⭐ News UK are hiring a External Communications Manager to join the Corporate Affairs team! The successful candidate will be responsible for key corporate and trade media relations across News UK and its three business units: Times Media (including The Times & The Sunday Times), News Broadcasting (including talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK, Times Radio and the Talk brand) and The Sun. Working collaboratively with a range of different stakeholders, the External Communications Manager plays an instrumental role in telling the story of one of the UK’s leading and most innovative media companies. An ideal candidate will have an established track record of five or more years delivering high profile and impactful corporate communications and B2B media relations, ideally within an agency or in-house in a Technology, Media or Telecoms environment. Interested? Find out more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eG3dTg3f Discover our other vacancies here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ex5eNwNC

Behind the scenes: Election edition 🌟 On Thursday, 4th July, our brands made history, working tirelessly through the night to deliver the highest quality election coverage possible. Here’s a look behind the scenes… 📻 Times Radio produced an incredible 100 hours of live election coverage. Matt Chorley led the overnight results show with political editor Kate McCann and Calum Macdonald. They were joined by some of the most distinguished voices in politics and journalism including Andrew Neil, William Hague, Peter Mandelson and Ayesha Hazarika. 📰 The Times newsroom showcased teamwork at its best, involving desk heads, the lobby team, commentators, graphics, design, pictures, video and production staff who all brought the journalism to life. 🎧The Times also produced some incredible podcasts that informed listeners throughout the whole election campaign, including The Story, How to Win an Election and The Election Shortcut with Kate McCann. 🎤On the morning of the election results, a special live edition of the "How To Win An Election" podcast was recorded on stage before an enthusiastic audience. 🤳 TalkTV election night coverage saw the station’s biggest stars keep the nation informed and entertained as the results came in overnight. Julia Hartley-Brewer broke the exit poll before established TV competitors, while Mike Graham and Ian Collins were joined by a star-studded cast of ex-politicians, Lords and News UK journalists. 🎙️ In the run up to the election, Harry Cole's Never Mind The Ballots turned into a daily morning show, hosting live episodes including the globally-viewed debate between readers and the Prime Minister and Prime Minister-in-waiting, making headlines everywhere. 🗞️The Sun's Lobby team created a blueprint for political journalism, producing a slick morning video show that generated digital copy and buzz, continuing into the next day's paper. 📽️On the night Never Mind The Ballots hosted two live shows at 10pm and 8am to update audiences with the key moments as well as producing copy for the website and multiple issues of the paper. 🌞 The Sun's “Time For A New Manager” election special front page was a hit and generated headlines. 🌐 The Sun's online team commissioned live maps and graphs that millions of readers used to find their local results, driving more readers to our site for longer, resulting in over 6 million impressions! A heartfelt thank you to everyone involved for their dedication and hard work. #passion #principle #purpose

Last night, talkSPORT paid a massive tribute to the England team 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽ After the game, a series of giant projections were beamed onto The News Building, both with the slogan, ‘You did us proud’, to the delight of fans in the area after the game. From on the ground in Germany throughout the tournament all the way back to The News Building, talkSPORT had the Euros fully covered. ⚽

📣 Job of the week: Category Director 📣 News UK are hiring a Category Director to join the Client team. The role of the Category Director is to be responsible for developing and managing stakeholder relationships with clients directly for the Grocers Category. The successful candidate will have extensive leadership sales experience direct to Clients, key relationships in place in the Grocers sector and experience in developing digital-first propositions. Interested? Find out more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/efKeyHYT See our other vacancies here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ex5eNwNC

🌟 Last Night's Summer BBQ to celebrate 10 years of The News Building 🌟 We had a fantastic evening with our regular pop up bar, the TNB Tavern, to celebrate our 10-year anniversary at The News Building! 🎉 Highlights of the evening included: 🍔 A BBQ with prices you would’ve paid 10 years ago  🍷 The TNB Tavern bar, serving up wine, beer, and cocktails. 🧁 Delicious cupcakes 🎁 Raffle with fabulous prizes from our brands  🎶Live music from our DJ on the terrace And to top it all off, the sun came out to join the festivities! 🌞 A huge thank you to everyone who came out and made this celebration so special. Here's to many more years of great times at TNB Tavern! #10yearsatTheNewsBuilding

Exciting news! I am pleased to share that the News UK Apprentice Society has been shortlisted for the 'Outstanding New Network of the Year' category at the Diversity Network Awards. I officially launched the Apprentice Society in April, with the aim to provide all apprentices across News UK with the best community and social opportunities possible. To be shortlisted for an award at such an early stage is truly a privilege. I would like to extend thanks to my amazing team, who have made launching the network possible Yvonne Yewande Akinwande Shelley Bishton and Mark Hudson. #apprenticeship #earlytalent #ERG