Data Journalist, WILLIAM REED

Your Impact

As a Data Journalist, you’ll lead MCA’s data and insights coverage, shaping how we interpret and communicate the key trends and metrics driving the hospitality sector. Often described as the Financial Times of the hospitality sector, MCA publishes daily news, analysis and insight on the eating and drinking-out market for our premium subscriber base. Covering multi-site operators from value to premium, our reporting spans everything from Greggs to Gail’s, Wetherspoons to The Ivy, and McDonald’s to Dishoom. MCA sits alongside Restaurant Online and the Morning Advertiser within William Reed’s hospitality division.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Shaping the editorial direction of the daily digital newsletter, ensuring relevance, quality and impact.
• Leading MCA’s data editorial agenda, proactively developing and pitching ideas, partnerships, and opportunities to the wider team.
• Owning and evolving MCA’s data visualisation strategy, enhancing how insight is presented across coverage.
• Building and maintaining trusted relationships with key insight providers, identifying compelling data-led angles for editorial output.
• Representing MCA at internal and external events and conferences, contributing ideas, supporting speaker and panellist recruitment, and helping shape event programmes.
• Analysing website performance data to identify what drives registrations, engagement, and return visits, sharing actionable insights to inform team strategy.

What You’ll Need

• Proven experience working with data and translating it into clear, compelling editorial or content, gained either as a journalist within a B2B, business or hospitality-focused media brand, or from an insights background with an interest in developing a career in data-led journalism.
• Strong writing and editing skills and a flair for turning trends and data into compelling stories.
• Ability to create engaging, data-driven content for digital platforms, including financial and analytical journalism supported by clear storytelling and visualisation.
• Strong analytical skills, with experience using spreadsheets to interpret data, spot patterns, and uncover original story angles.
• Ability to identify, secure, and collaborate with relevant data partners to produce distinctive, insight-led content.
• A clear understanding of business and financial concepts, including economics, public markets, listed companies, investment, private equity, commercial property, executive leadership, and corporate culture.
• A proactive and energetic mindset, with a drive to produce a consistent stream of original analysis, interviews, and must-read editorial.
• Curiosity about emerging trends - ranging from consumer behavior to technology - and the ability to translate these into meaningful insights for our subscriber audience.
• Strong networking skills and a willingness to build and maintain industry relationships within hospitality and its wider ecosystem.
• A clear understanding of audience engagement, with the ability to amplify content reach and impact across multiple platforms, including social media.