Job Details
Job Band: C
Contract Type: 2 x Permanent - Full time.
Department: BBC News Streaming
Location: London
Proposed Salary Range: £27,900‑£37,200 + London weighting depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there’s no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
We expect interviews to take place in early June.
Job Purpose
The Journalist role for BBC News Streaming involves running single‑story live streams across a range of daily news stories, working in the Streaming Control Centre, sometimes as the sole producer. The ability to rapidly familiarise yourself with a daily news story –planned or breaking– is essential as are the skills and capacity to deliver any or all the stream's production – editorial and operational. All our roles – including Journalists – successfully pitch and execute ideas for streams that will broaden audience reach. As important is curiosity around streaming technology and a willingness to output content without operational support.
Why Join the Team
Join BBC News Streaming and help shape the future of digital journalism through our pioneering single story live streams. As a Journalist on the team, you’ll typically own the production of one or more live streams in our Streaming Control Centre. You’ll be a natural collaborator who thrives in a fast‑paced daily news environment where taking ownership for your decisions and development is the norm. You will be as comfortable covering breaking news as you are planned live events and identifying off‑diary stories that will engage audiences we need to reach. If you are agile, creative and are passionate about redefining live video news, this is the role for you.
Your Key Responsibilities and Impact
* As a Journalist on the team, you’ll work with colleagues across the BBC to deliver and to showcase BBC News across platforms including iPlayer, the BBC News Channel, the BBC News website, and social platforms such as YouTube.
* You’ll assist in the production of a wide variety of live news coverage. The successful candidates will be at home with breaking news, or pre‑planned major events. With a keen eye for moments, you’ll help spot and amplify the best of the BBC to audiences wherever they are with us, digitally.
* Streaming is a major priority for BBC News across our platforms. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of the industry; you’ll be motivated to embrace the challenge and work with others to seize the opportunity.
* Journalists in the team will be expected to work across a variety of daytime, evening and weekend shifts to deliver always on news coverage across BBC platforms.
Essential Criteria
* Good news judgement and knowledge of Editorial Policy and media law considerations for journalistic content across BBC platforms.
* Capability to juggle competing demands and experience dealing with a constantly changing news agenda and priorities.
* Experience producing live daily news output on a wide variety of journalistic subjects, from breaking news to planned coverage of events.
* Demonstrable curiosity around the development of newsroom systems and techniques to produce live video news output.
* An appreciation of analytics around digital publication; how audiences consume video and audio on streaming platforms and the target audiences for news content across BBC platforms.
* Willingness to work inside a data‑led, multi‑disciplinary team, in an agile, constantly developing and adapting environment; demonstrable experience of being a team player.
Additional Desirable Skills
* Experience as a producer making long form programmes and developing new on‑demand formats
* Proven ability to edit video with demonstrable knowledge of techniques to create video output.
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