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About ITN
ITN is one of the UK’s leading independent content production companies, trusted for over 70 years to tell the world’s most important stories. From BAFTA and Emmy award-winning journalism and impactful factual content to creative entertainment and branded storytelling, ITN brings truth and innovation to every platform. Making over 70 hours of live programmes a week and reaching 1 billion digital views a month, we are a content powerhouse that has an ambition to keep growing, with audiences across the UK and around the world.
Our people are at the heart of our success. With a reputation built on integrity and creativity, ITN continues to evolve with an ambitious growth strategy — investing in new technology, premium content, and future talent. We’re proud to foster an inclusive, collaborative culture where everyone can thrive and help shape the next chapter of ITN’s story.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer where everyone’s contribution matters. We’re committed to building a culture that reflects the audiences we serve — one where people feel included, supported, and inspired to do their best work.
How We Work
At ITN, how we work is as important as what we do. Our values describe what you can expect when you work here — and what ITN expects of you.
- Ambition – We set bold goals, take ownership, and keep learning. We look for new opportunities and better ways to make an impact.
- Courage – We speak up with honesty and respect, challenge ideas constructively, and value open, direct communication.
- Team – We collaborate, celebrate others’ successes, and make sure every voice is heard. We put the team’s success first.
We also recognise the importance of balance and wellbeing, so we welcome flexible working, part-time roles and job shares across all areas of ITN.
The Role
This is a crucial role, commissioning and overseeing the delivery of content for ITV News. This position is focused on our expanding digital platforms, with a specific focus on a new ITV News App, but with opportunities to work across Newsgathering, Streaming services, ITV News programmes, and special projects.
On a day-to-day basis these roles are the operational leaders at the heart of the newsrooms assigning resources and driving our coverage.
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Content Editors should have a strong breadth of experience, understanding and knowledge of ITV News coverage, and how to optimise that across our platforms. Content Editors may have a substantive platform or shift they work across more than others – but flexibility is a key part of the role.
This role requires a journalist with sound news judgement, creative storytelling, and the ability to motivate both teams in a creative and disciplined manner in a fast-paced deadline driven environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Driving content across the ITV News digital platforms, namely its app and mobile sites, an ability to drive the news agenda, manage the homepage, understand audience needs, and have the ability to commission and communicate those priorities from across the newsroom
- If News Editing, select stories for coverage, assign resources to them, manage daily spend
- If Editing TV programmes to generate content, making key judgements to provide an appropriate mix of stories for our programmes and platforms
- To output ITV News programmes in the gallery – working closely with presenters and Gallery teams
- When curating content for streaming, leading on bespoke content, walls, explainers. Editing regular ITVX & YouTube programmes and overseeing their turnaround into podcasts or social clips
- Hold team meetings, brief senior editorial team, on-screen and off-screen journalists, and newdesks about content on the platform and their role in it
- Leading on innovative and creative ways to tell stories on existing, and new ITV News platforms
- Confidently make decisions around legal issues, taste and decency, and demonstrate a good understanding of the right decisions to escalate
- Ensure our platforms reflect the diversity of our audience through a balanced mix of reporters and contributors covering stories that connect with our viewers
- To line manage colleagues across the newsroom, taking on all mentoring, development, pastoral, appraisals and other duties
- Play a major part in collaborating with all parts of the ITV News operation, especially the ITV News regional newsrooms, and Good Morning Britain, ensuring there is close co-operation, understanding and creative cross-promotion of all ITV platforms
These are the main requirements of the role and is not an exhaustive list of duties. It is intended to reflect the nature, range, and context of the work, which will change over time.
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Key Requirements:
- An energy and enthusiasm to help ITV News promote the best of its journalism, and journalists, across all platforms in an evolving landscape
- Proven experience of producing or planning impactful, high-quality and distinctive news content, across multiple platforms, to deadlines and under pressure
- Experience of overseeing creation and delivery of digital output to a high standard, under time pressure
- A lively, creative and dynamic leader with excellent people management skills and the ability to both lead, and be part of, a team
- A good communicator with a strong ability to solve problems and to brief and lead colleagues across the newsroom and in the field
- A strong knowledge of the news agenda – including a good understanding of key political, financial and international news together with a feel for human interest stories
- A proven knowledge of what stories work across different platforms, to different audiences
- An excellent grasp of the techniques of using video to tell as well as a strong knowledge of software and workflows to tell those stories
- A good knowledge of graphics and an understanding of how they can add value to stories and coverage
- An excellent understanding of the importance of diversity in our programmes
- Strong awareness of health and safety protocols and an ability to dynamically risk assess
- Strong awareness of all relevant legal and compliance regulations that affect our output
- Flair and imagination
Our people are at the heart of everything we do at ITN. It’s vital that our workforce reflects the diversity of both our audience and the wider society in the UK, so we actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds and communities. Reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process will be offered, if required, due to a disability or health condition. We also recognise the importance of a good work life balance, so we do everything we can to accommodate flexible working, including part-time and job shares for all our roles. Please just let us know in your application, or at any stage throughout the process, if this is something you want to explore.
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