Accepting applications until: 28 November 2025
Job Description
Your Role: Broadcast Journalist
A fantastic opportunity for a dedicated journalist to join our passionate, hardworking team.
Reporting to a News Editor, you'll be delivering multiple local news bulletins for Heart and Smooth Radio stations across the patch as well as providing on-air and on-line content for Global’s national brands like LBC, LBC News, and Classic FM.
You’ll be creative, have a fantastic voice, great writing skills with experience of producing multiple news bulletins in a busy environment.
Key Responsibilities
* As a bulletin reader, you'll have a phenomenal voice, write creatively and be able to deliver outstanding quality, relevant, timely and accurate local news and current affairs content.
* You\'ll be part of ensuring stories from our region are heard on our national news talk brand, LBC, and on our rolling news station, LBC News.
* You\'ll understand the importance of the full range of social and multi-media tools available in delivering a successful multi-platform news experience for our audiences.
* You\'ll have sound legal judgement and be proficient in Ofcom's broadcast regulations and guidelines.
* You\'ll understand the importance of developing relationships with key contacts across our region.
* You\'ll have the flexibility to tackle both bulletin reading and reporting shifts as required.
What You’ll Love About This Role
Think Big: We’re passionate about news, and eager to investigate and create our own outstanding and exclusive stories!
Own It: You will have a commanding on-air presence and be confident in your ability to, if required, report live into LBC and LBC News.
Keep it Simple: Drive straightforward, impactful content that resonates deeply with audiences.
Better Together: We work with colleagues across Global’s Newsroom to provide on-target, agenda-setting, news content.
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you’ll have:
* Created and presented news bulletins across our Heart and Smooth Radio stations.
* Produced creative and engaging content for LBC and LBC News.
* Sourced and produced original, exclusive content.
* Responded professionally to a big breaking story.
* Developed a full understanding of the different Global brands
What You’ll Need
* You will be confident working on your own and under the guidance of your Senior colleagues to provide on-target, agenda-setting, news content.
* You\'ll have a commanding on-air presence and be confident in your ability to, if required, report live into LBC and LBC News.
* You will have experience of producing and presenting multiple news bulletins each hour.
* You will enjoy working flexible hours and always strive to complete a task to a high standard.
* A knowledge and understanding of the key issues affecting the lives of people in the area you are covering.
* You\'ll have an excellent knowledge of media law and the OFCOM Broadcast Code.
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