BBC
Online Journalist (Yorkshire)
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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Nations
LOCATION: Sheffield - Hybrid
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.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
This is an opportunity to work as part of a friendly team in a busy newsroom committed to finding and telling the stories of people in South Yorkshire. As well as working on on-the-day news, you will also get the opportunity to develop your own ideas and learn skills which would enable you to showcase your storytelling on radio and TV as well as the world’s biggest and most trusted news website.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
As BBC Yorkshire Online Journalist you will work with colleagues to create high quality multi-media content about the area for local as well as national audiences. You will be expected to not only work on big breaking news stories and courts/inquests but also come up with your own original ideas and shape material for use online.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
- To write sharp, accurate and engaging stories and also to have a keen awareness of still images, video and audio for the site
- This will include covering stories for news-led local and national indexes online as well as developing original stories and features.
- You will also develop multi-platform newsgathering skills as part of a team which co-ordinates online news coverage across Yorkshire.
- This role offers an opportunity to work with colleagues across Yorkshire and the wider BBC News to provide the strongest news-led online output for local, national and international audiences.
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Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Substantial professional experience as a text-based journalist in a UK-based daily news environment
- Excellent news writing skills and an understanding of the power and limitations of an online medium
- Substantial and demonstrable evidence of creatively using online storytelling techniques to deliver news in an engaging way for diverse audiences
- Substantial and demonstrable experience of court reporting, 100wpm shorthand and excellent working knowledge of media law
- Demonstratable ability to consistently generate original ideas and turn them into engaging multimedia material
Desirable
- A knowledge of video production skills
- Ability to use social media to source and showcase content
- Knowledge of South Yorkshire and wider Yorkshire area including current and upcoming news events
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.
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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.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered. Please click on the APPLY NOW button to proceed with your application.
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.
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