ITN
Content Editor - Programmes, Good Morning Britain
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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-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 role will work on GMB. This role involves regular night working.
To produce dynamic and innovative programmes of the highest editorial and technical quality for GMB. On a day-to-day basis these roles are the operational leaders at the heart of the newsroom putting together the daily programme and outputting it from the gallery.
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Content Editors should have a strong breadth of experience and understanding of making and delivering impactful news and magazine programmes. This role requires a journalist with sound judgement of the GMB agenda and the ability to motivate both input and output teams in a creative and disciplined manner in a fast-paced deadline driven environment.
We are looking to conduct interviews:
- Wednesday 5th August
- Thursday 6th August
- Monday 10th August
- Tuesday 11th August
- Wednesday 12th August
Key Responsibilities:
- Generating Programme running orders making key editorial judgements to provide an appropriate mix of stories and live guests for the GMB programme
- Generating original story ideas and treatments
- Compiling and refining the running orders
- Deciding programme headlines, teases, coming ups and trails
- Present daily editorial plans to GMB teams
- Brief Correspondents, News Desks and Presenters on the programme content and their role in it
- Overall responsibility for transmission from the gallery
- Making a final check of scripts and packages prior to transmission
- Making decisions on news values, legal issues, taste and decency
- Maintaining an overview of programme timing
- Making decisions about changes to the running order during transmission
- Making the final call on whether an element or story runs in a GMB show
- Confidently making decisions around legal issues, taste and decency, and demonstrate a good understanding of the right decisions to escalate
- Ability to act as Content Editor News as required
- Ensure our programmes 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
- Work closely with all parts of the ITV News operation, ensuring there is close co-operation, understanding and creative cross-promotion
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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.
Key Requirements:
- A lively, creative and dynamic leader with excellent people management skills and the ability to work well in a team
- A good communicator with a strong ability to solve problems and to brief and lead colleagues in the newsroom and in the field
- A strong knowledge of the news agenda for GMB.
- A strong understanding of GMB, including a good grasp of which stories would work best as a package or live or an interview or debate
- An excellent grasp of the techniques of using video to tell stories
- Ability to video edit
- 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 relevant legal and compliance regulations
- Good knowledge of Ofcom regulations and the ITN compliance manual
- Awareness of Health and Safety requirements
- Awareness and understanding of the financial implications of all decision making
- An understanding of personal responsibility for cross-company cooperation within both ITN and ITV
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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