The Times and Sunday Times Graduate Trainee Scheme

The Times and The Sunday Times invites applications for its 2025 graduate training programme.

This is an opportunity to work at Britain’s most trusted quality newspapers, alongside award-winning journalists.

You will receive on the job training, mentoring and guidance and will spend time with a number of different departments across both papers, including reporting,production and digital teams. You will learn everything we can teach you about how to create content, tell stories, attract, grow and capture an audience.

We are looking for candidates with originality, talent,commitment and a love of journalism.

The two-year scheme is based in London and if you are offered a place on the training programme, you will start work at the end of August 2025.

Your application

Please apply by uploading two documents.

Document one: A cover letter that explains why you want to join The Times and The Sunday Times graduate training programme (max 500 words), along with three examples of your published journalism.
Document two: Your CV

Applications close on Sunday April 6, 2025

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Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
30 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on careers@news.co.uk.

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