Journalist, Streaming

BBC; London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join BBC News Streaming as a Journalist and help redefine digital journalism through live news coverage. This role involves owning the production of live streams, collaborating with diverse teams, and delivering high-quality news content to engage audiences across platforms. Experience in live programming and newsroom dynamics is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience working on live programming on a wide variety of subjects.
• Understanding of newsroom tooling and techniques.
• Knowledge of compliance procedures for journalistic content.

Responsibilities

• Produce live streams of news stories, both breaking and planned.
• Collaborate with team members to enhance news coverage.
• Adapt to changing news agendas and priorities.

Skills

Live programming

Newsroom tooling

Compliance procedures

Audience engagement

Adaptability

Job description

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: C

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: BBC News

LOCATION: London

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £28,000 - £35,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Interviews to take place WC 11th August

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The Journalist role for BBC News Streaming involves running single-story live streams across a range of daily news stories, frequently as sole producer. The ability to rapidly familiarise yourself with a daily news story -planned or breaking-is essential as are the skills and capacity to deliver any or all the stream's production - editorial and operational. All our roles - including Journalists - successfully pitch and execute ideas for streams that will broaden audience reach.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Join BBC News Streaming and help shape the future of digital journalism through our pioneering single story live streams. As a Journalist, you’ll typically own the production of one or more live streams in our Streaming Control Centre. You’ll be a natural collaborator who thrives in a fast-paced daily news environment where taking ownership for your decisions and development is the norm. You will be as comfortable covering breaking news as you are planned live events and identifying off-diary stories that will engage audiences we need to reach. If you are agile, creative and are passionate about redefining live video news, this is the role for you.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• As a Journalist on the team you’ll work with colleagues across the BBC and within the Streaming Team to showcase BBC News at its best.
• Since launch, BBC News’ streams have reached millions of users in the UK and around the world. Across iPlayer, the BBC News website and app and on live pages, we bring audiences live coverage of the biggest stories - delivering the best of the BBC’s journalism 24/7. Following significant investment in digital teams across BBC News, the team is now expanding and broadening to deliver non-stop coverage around the clock, from across the globe. From later this year, the team will also regularly deliver output from Streaming to viewers on UK television.
• You’ll assist in the production of a wide variety of live news coverage. The successful candidates will be at home with breaking news, or pre-planned major events. With a keen eye for moments, you’ll help spot and amplify the best of the BBC to audiences wherever they are with us, digitally.
• Streaming is a major priority for BBC News across our platforms. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of the industry; you’ll be motivated to embrace the challenge and work with others to seize the opportunity.
• Journalists in the team will be expected to work across a variety of daytime, evening and weekend shifts to deliver always on News coverage across BBC platforms.
  
  

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience working on live programming on a wide variety of subjects, from breaking news to planned coverage of events.
• Understanding and experience of newsroom tooling, systems and techniques to produce live news output.
• Knowledge of compliance procedures, Editorial Policy and media law considerations for journalistic content across BBC platforms.
• An appreciation of how audiences consume video and audio on streaming platforms and the target audiences for News content across BBC platforms.
• Willingness to work inside a multi-disciplinary team, in an agile, constantly developing and adapting environment.
• Capability to juggle competing demands and experience dealing with a constantly changing news agenda and priorities.
  
  

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

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.

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. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

For any general queries, please contact: [e-mail]

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.