Description

Closing Date: 13-Jun-2024

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
Benefits - We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days holiday (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.
If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps - both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here
Job Introduction
We are looking for senior journalists to join the Digital News team. You will be expected to write, edit, sub and commission stories for the BBC News website.
Main Responsibilities
The role has many aspects: it could focus on monitoring the news, generating ideas for digital coverage and helping set the daily agenda.
It involves writing the biggest news of the day, getting involved with reporting, generating ideas and devising the best formats to tell our biggest stories. An understanding of how search and social trends and audience data improve our journalism will be part of the job.
This role will also be called upon to manage the curation and promotion of news on our digital platforms.
Are you the right candidate?
You will be able to demonstrate the following key criteria:
Strong editorial judgement with demonstrable experience of editing breaking news in text on digital platforms
Experience of using social media, search and audience data to improve digital storytelling, reach new audiences and broaden coverage
A track record of covering the UK and international news agenda and delivering insightful, high-quality journalism to digital audiences
Experience and understanding of the formats, tools, and techniques to run rolling digital news coverage in both text and video
The ability to very swiftly write and sub engaging news copy for news websites, with attention to accuracy, context and tone
Experience of making decisions under pressure while swiftly rolling out a digital coverage plan
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
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Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
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