About
News UK
The Times, founded in 1785, and The Sunday Times, founded in 1822, are the home of authoritative, credible, and award-winning journalism. Reporting on Britain in the 21st Century is a duty: both titles are taking proactive steps to ensure its newsroom is reflective of modern Britain, to campaign against injustices, and report constructively, offering solutions to some of the nation’s biggest issues.
YOUNG TALENT SCHEMES
The Times and The Sunday Times run a number of schemes to offer opportunities to aspiring journalists.
The Times and The Sunday Times offer more than 250 work experience placements each year, to students who are offered opportunities to work across different desks – from Home News to Arts, and paid for published work.
The titles offer around 20 entry-level roles and apprenticeships each year, and welcomed seven new apprentices this year as part of News UK’s media apprenticeship scheme. Each apprentice gets the tools and training to excel in the trade. They earn a London living wage, get full training — including NCTJ qualifications — and have all course fees paid.
The Black Pound Report
The Black Pound Report is the biggest report of its kind, offering unique insight into the Black, Asian and Multi-Ethnic consumer market. In 2022, it was launched in partnership with News UK and The Times and The Sunday Times reported on the findings exclusively, revealing that businesses across the UK could be missing out on about £4.5 billion in revenue every year because they are failing to serve the needs of black, Asian and other non-white consumers.
Pictured on the left is Lydia Amoah, founder of the Black Pound Report.
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STYLE MAGAZINE X THE BLACK WRITERS’ GUILD
In 2020, Style Magazine launched an annual essay competition with The Black Writers’ Guild. Open to aspiring Black-British journalists under 25, the winner gets six months of mentoring from members of the Style team, a minimum of three pieces commissioned and published in the print or digital editions of Style, and receives a two-week paid internship.
The Times Top 50 Employers for Women
In partnership with Business in the Community, The Times celebrates the top 50 employers for women each year. They honour business showing brave leadership to ensure they are great places for women to work – helping to pave the way towards truly gender-equal workplaces.
CHAMPIONING WOMEN IN SPORT
The Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year Awards were launched in 1987. The awards have led the way in recognising and celebrating the outstanding contribution to sport made by elite performers, coaches, administrators, community volunteers and inspirational women.
Previous winners of the coveted Sportswoman of the Year accolade include Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, Dina Asher-Smith, Elise Christie,Sally Gunnell, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Denise Lewis, Dame Kelly Holmes, Zara Phillips, Victoria Pendleton and Christine Ohuruogu.
LIVING WITH DISABILITIES
Melanie Reid MBE is an award-winning columnist for The Times. Having broken her neck and back in a riding accident in 2010, she writes her Spinal Column in The Times Magazine every week, on her experience of life with a disability. Reid was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to journalism and to people with disabilities.
SOCIAL INCLUSION AT UNIVERSITIES
In 2018, The Sunday Times Good University Guide introduced a social inclusion ranking rates universities in England, Wales and Scotland, which ranks the institution on key measures that reflect the diversity of their intake and subsequent success. It is designed to assess more broad-based achievement in recruiting from the areas of society least represented in higher education.
Made up of eight indicators, it covers the proportions of entrants recruited from non-selective state schools, ethnic minorities, and areas of low participation in higher education; those who are first generation students, mature or disabled; the black attainment gap; and in England and Wales, the gap between the dropout rate of students from the areas of the country with the lowest participation rates in higher education, compared to the rate for students from the rest of the country