Global Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Broadcast Journalist – Birmingham
Accepting Applications Until: 28 November 2025
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Joining this full‑time role offers an exciting opportunity to produce local news bulletins across Heart, Smooth, Capital Radio stations and Global’s national brands like LBC, LBC News, and Classic FM. Reporting to a Regional News Editor, you will deliver multiple local news bulletins and support national coverage.
Key Responsibilities
* Have excellent production skills, write creatively, deliver high‑quality, timely and accurate news and current affairs content.
* Help set the on‑air agenda daily.
* Ensure regional stories are heard on national news talk brand, LBC, and on rolling news station, LBC News.
* Apply Ofcom’s broadcast regulations and guidelines with sound legal judgment.
* Develop relationships with key contacts across the region.
* Tackle news gathering, bulletin reading and reporting shifts as required.
* Pitch and deliver outstanding, original content, alone or collaboratively.
* Respond to changing situations and problem‑solve under pressure to maintain highest output standards.
What Success Looks Like
* Produced stand‑out content on some of the nation’s biggest radio brands.
* Established yourself as a key member of our regional newsroom operation.
* Set the standard in the quality of the interviews and audio that we output across our newsroom.
* Created and presented news bulletins across Heart, Capital and Smooth Radio stations in the East and Midlands.
* 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
* Confidence working on your own and under the guidance of senior colleagues to provide on‑target, agenda‑setting news content.
* Experience producing and presenting multiple news bulletins each hour.
* Ability to deliver standout, OFCOM‑compliant bulletins which routinely meet and exceed Global standards.
* Understanding of the importance of custom content across our brand portfolio and ownership of editorial decisions with diverse audiences in mind.
* Flexibility for 24/7 news coverage; this is not a normal office job.
Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing
Industries
Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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