Journalist - BBC Lancashire
Job Reference: 18213
Band: C
Salary: £27,300 - £40,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: Permanent role
Location: Office base is Blackburn - Radio Lancashire.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application.
Job Introduction
BBC Lancashire is proud to serve an incredible area, and we reflect that pride through creatively serving our audience and making a difference to where we live. We’re committed to telling amazing stories from our communities and bringing in new audiences through creating content which generates impact on air and on demand. This is a chance to be part of our friendly and talented team with a real can-do spirit. We’re looking for an experienced, versatile journalist to join the team. You’ll need to be hands-on and have a passion for storytelling, with experience in breaking news, a great news reading voice, production, and digital journalism skills. You’ll need to be a motivated, multi-skilled journalist to help shape our content, focusing on bringing to life the stories that matter to our audience.
Main Responsibilities
* The ability to help us tell our stories on radio, TV, online, and digitally.
* You will come up with original story ideas and creative treatments and carry out background research.
* There may be shifts which require news reading skills.
* You will have experience of responding to breaking news with the ability to summarise complex issues calmly and clearly under significant time pressure.
* Be comfortable reporting live from a studio or at an outside broadcast.
* We expect high-quality writing skills and the highest standards of accuracy, impartiality, and fair dealing in accordance with the BBC's Editorial values and the law.
* Our audience are using us 7 days a week so there’s an expectation of weekend work or early shifts.
Are you the right candidate?
* Have you got examples of your stories reaching new and existing audiences?
* We need people who match our ambition for our output.
* The role is demanding and we set high standards, but we also want to have fun.
* If you’re a journalist with plenty of ideas for brilliant storytelling then we want to hear from you.
* Do you have a strong broadcast voice? You will work on a wide range of stories with the audience at the heart of it.
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. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
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