Overview
The News Channel delivers live and breaking news to audiences across the UK and around the world, 24 hours a day. As a Journalism Researcher, you'll pitch ideas and fix guests across a broad range of stories. When a story breaks, we want to speak to guests who can deliver in-depth analysis, react to breaking news, give eyewitness accounts or who can take stories forward with exclusive news lines. You'll collaborate with colleagues across the BBC to maximise the value of our content and ensure its reach across the organisation. This role is ideal for a hungry, hardworking, news-savvy producer with a knack for visual storytelling.
Why join the team: you’ll be working in the heart of the BBC7s newsroom on our rolling news operation, delivering high-end coverage of the biggest global and domestic stories of the day. It7s fast-paced and demanding work. You7ll get opportunities to pitch creative treatments and build engaging TV sequences, as well as fixing news-making and agenda-setting guests.
Your key responsibilities and impact
* Pitching ideas for news coverage, and guests for planned and breaking news stories.
* Work well under pressure, have a good contacts book and be able to hit the phones quickly during breaking news events. You will be persuasive and know how to encourage guests to speak to the BBC and share their insights.
* Write well-sourced briefs and be confident speaking to presenters ahead of interviews to ensure they are fully prepared.
* Understand the importance of live and breaking news for the BBC News channel, BBC Online and iPlayer, and have ideas about stories and treatments that would appeal to audiences on these platforms.
* Be a curious and efficient problem solver, a team player who considers various viewpoints on global topics. Thrive under hourly deadlines as a multi-skilled producer.
Qualifications and experience
* Experience working in a newsroom.
* Strong editorial judgement.
* Good knowledge of news and current affairs and plugged into the stories of the moment.
* A good contacts book.
* Proven experience writing scripts and briefs.
Additional information
We are a disability-confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process or to carry out this role, please contact us via email.
Life at the BBC: we offer fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy extra days, a defined pension scheme and discounted health care and gym, along with excellent career and professional development. We value diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.
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