JOB DETAILS
Job band: C
Contract type: Full Time, Permanent
Department: BBC News & Current Affairs, BBC Verify
Location: London Broadcasting House, W1A 1AA
Proposed salary range: £36,500 - £46,500 + LW depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Transparency is an essential element in ensuring audiences feel they can trust the BBC's journalism. There has never been a more important time to ensure news consumers understand not just what we know, but how we know it – and BBC Verify is at the heart of this as we find new ways to share more of the important, thoughtful work that goes into verifying, fact checking and sourcing our journalism. The unit brings together the BBC's best analysts, fact-checkers, data specialists and designers from across domestic and global teams with expertise in data journalism, disinformation and the latest Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and verification techniques.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
Join the Open-Source Journalism and Verification team and help shape the future of transparent journalism. You’ll work side by side with some of the best open-source journalists in the business – working on daily verification and longer-term investigations. Together, we’ll create stories that really matter and reach audiences around the world. Plus, you’ll have access to outstanding training and development opportunities to keep growing your skills and career.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
* Daily gathering and verification of video, audio and stills, including logging and communication of verification work
* Analysis of satellite imagery
* Use of ship/plane tracking tools
* Contributing to complex open-source journalism projects
* Generating ideas for open-source journalism-related projects, including longer-term stories
* Writing articles and live page posts for online and scripting for television and radio
* Producing or contributing to the production of social videos related to open-source journalism and verification
Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
* Extensive understanding of a range of OSINT techniques and experience of using them in daily and longer-term journalism
* Experience of verification of video, audio and stills in a fast-paced news environment
* Excellent geolocation and chronolocation skills; solid grounding in a range of social media platforms including Telegram
* Experience of satellite image analysis
* Experience of writing stories for online
DESIRABLE
* Experience of ship/plane tracking tools
* Extensive knowledge of tools and processes used around verification
* Understanding of AI generated media and use of AI tools in open-source journalism
* Have an OSINT specialism that you are working to develop
* Good knowledge of recent global conflicts
* Good understanding of law and editorial guidelines
If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
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