Senior Journalist, BBC Digital News

Working alongside experienced editors and journalists, you'll be part of a collaborative newsroom where strong editorial judgement, creativity, and audience focus are valued.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Commission, script, edit, and publish video journalism for the BBC News website, app, and social platforms, responding quickly to breaking news and major events.
• Write, edit, and commission text stories that are accurate, engaging, and tailored for digital audiences.
• Collaborate with correspondents, producers, and editors to develop original journalism, including analysis, explainers, and distinctive visual storytelling.
• Use audience insight, search trends, and social data to help shape coverage and identify the most effective treatment for stories.
• Support the Assistant Editor by providing editorial guidance to colleagues and contributing to the smooth delivery of daily coverage.
• Ensure all output meets BBC editorial, legal, and accessibility standards.

Your Skills And Experience – Essential Criteria

• Significant experience producing, editing, and commissioning high-quality video journalism for digital audiences.
• Proficient in video-editing tools (FCP, Premiere Pro, or similar) across multiple video formats.
• Excellent editorial judgement, with proven ability to make quick decisions and deliver accurate, engaging journalism in a fast-moving news environment.
• Experience using search, social, and audience data to inform story selection, video formats, and text treatments.
• Strong writing and editing skills, with experience creating and refining text stories for digital platforms.
• Experience working collaboratively with correspondents, producers, and wider newsroom teams to deliver high-quality UK and international news coverage.
• Ability to provide editorial guidance and constructive feedback to colleagues, helping maintain high standards across output.

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.

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.

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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.