Journalist - Today
Location: London, GB, W1A 1AA
Job Closing Date: 1/5/25
THE ROLE
Job Reference: 23512
Band: C
Salary: £27,300 - £35,150 plus London Weighting, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: 5 months
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. 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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.
Job Introduction
We’re looking for a creative, energetic, and resourceful journalist to join the team. You’ll be working with some of the biggest names in news broadcasting and your work will be heard by around 6 million people. You will be dealing with breaking news, finding the best new takes on stories, finding guests, briefing presenters for interviews, creating original packages, casting discussions, working on outside broadcasts and preparing online material for our digital platforms.
You will be organised, resilient, hard-working and enthusiastic. A first-class journalist with a strong knowledge of domestic and world politics and experience of working in a busy newsroom. A team player, you will be full of original ideas with the ability to communicate and contextualise complex stories and a thorough grasp of what makes good radio. You must have the flexibility to travel at short notice, and a good knowledge of the digital landscape and how to make our content travel further on BBC platforms.
Main Responsibilities
Journalists on the Today Programme work to ensure the ongoing high standard and creativity of the programme’s output.
* Contributing original ideas and treatments for the day’s stories
* Finding and booking guests for live interviews and discussions
* Briefing presenters
* Commissioning two-ways and packages from newsgathering correspondents
* Making pieces of audio which meet the highest editorial and technical standards.
Journalists will also need to:
* Take responsibility for programme items; ensuring the journalism is imaginative, creative and of the highest possible quality to fulfil the needs of listeners
* Work to ensure that decisions made during production are properly reflected in output
* Collaborate with Newsgathering to ensure that correspondents and producers understand the programme's needs and are commissioned to meet its editorial requirements
* Have a well-developed understanding of the law and producer guidelines as it relates to journalism
* Understand and implement Health and Safety policies
* Understand and implement on-air diversity initiatives.
The Today Programme is staffed 24 hours a day, 6 days a week and the successful candidate will be required to work a significant number of night shifts and weekends.
Are you the right Candidate?
* Significant recent experience as a journalist – a self-starter with a strong track record of producing radio content for flagship programmes.
* Strong knowledge of the domestic news agenda, with in-depth knowledge of politics.
* Ability to use radio recording technology (Marantz or equivalent) to gather and edit material for broadcast on location.
* Excellent news judgment; the ability to identify news lines or news-making interviewees.
* Creativity; proven ability to originate relevant content for a national audience in news or current affairs.
* Resilient, able to work under pressure to meet deadlines and experience of responding to breaking news stories.
* Understanding of how material can make an impact on digital platforms.
If you have any questions regarding this role please contact Ollie Stone-Lee or Laura Cooper for more info.
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.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
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.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks.
DISCLAIMER
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance.
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