Senior Journalist, News on iPlayer

BBC; London; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

The BBC is seeking a Senior Journalist to join the News on iPlayer team in London. This role involves curating and coordinating high-quality news content, utilizing data insights for audience engagement, and collaborating across departments. The successful candidate will thrive in a dynamic environment, managing multiple projects while delivering on-demand news coverage.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Defined pension scheme

Discounted health care and gym membership

25 days annual leave plus additional options

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of video consumption on streaming platforms.
• Experience with BBC News tools for video content creation.
• Proven ability to adapt in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Curate and coordinate content for BBC News on iPlayer.
• Use analytics to inform content decisions for audiences.
• Work with cross-functional teams for news coverage.

Skills

Analytics

Video Editing

Team Collaboration

Editorial Policy Knowledge

Tools

FCP X

Jupiter

Silver

CPS

Castaway

iBroadcast

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17.06.2025

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Salary: £43,200 - £53,500 plus London Weighting, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: 12 month attachment/FTC

Location: Office Base is London Broadcasting House. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

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 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 and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our

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Job Introduction

News on iPlayer is a pioneering multidisciplinary team, charged with delivering, creating and curating the best of BBC News on iPlayer. The team aims to serve and grow audiences consuming news on our streaming platform, both on demand and live.

Piloting and testing new formats in the VOD space is crucial, while also ensuring we improve the existing programme offer on BBC iPlayer through better curation, iPlayer-first delivery and more. Streaming audiences are constantly evolving, so we must too!

As a Senior Journalist, you’ll play a key role in helping to deliver the best of BBC News on iPlayer – curating, originating and co-ordinating a wide variety of content for all audiences.

Main Responsibilities

News for live and on demand audiences requires a data-driven, always on, agile team that is continually developing and adapting our offer to meet audience needs. As a Senior Journalist on the team you’ll work with colleagues across the BBC to showcase BBC News at its best.

iPlayer is a major priority for the BBC and for BBC News. You will use analytics and audience research confidently to help guide decisions, curating, modifying and tweaking our output day-to-day to deliver the very best content to our on-demand and live audiences.

Working between a daily news operation and an agile, iterative development team you will be equally at home operating with colleagues across the BBC on key news coverage; or working with audience panels to develop and create new formats for our platforms.

Experimentation, piloting and continual improvement are key to success. You should be at home working across a number of simultaneous projects and be prepared for continuous change.

We need to build our VOD audiences and grow our live audience on iPlayer. It’s an exciting opportunity to shape the future of the industry and you’ll be motivated to embrace the challenge and work with others to seize the opportunity.

Senior Journalists in the team will be expected to work some evenings and weekends to help us deliver always on News coverage on iPlayer.

Are you the right candidate?

The successful candidate should have:-

• A thorough understanding of analytics; how audiences consume video on streaming platforms and the target audiences for News content on iPlayer.
• Knowledge of compliance procedures, Editorial Policy and media law considerations for journalistic content on iPlayer.
• Proven ability to edit video, with demonstrable knowledge of BBC News’ tools and techniques to create video (TV and Digital Video) output.
• Understanding of video tooling, including FCP X and tools used for BBC News’ workflows including Jupiter, Silver and our online offer including CPS, Castaway, and iBroadcast.
• Willingness to work inside a multi-disciplinary team, in an agile, sprint-led way, in a constantly developing and adapting environment.
• Demonstrable experience of being a team player, able to articulate to others why change is needed.
• Capability to juggle competing editorial demands.

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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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.