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Senior Producer, Crime
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Senior Producer, Crime
Sky News is looking for a Senior Producer, Crime to play a central role in delivering distinctive, original, and audience-focused crime, policing, and justice journalism across all our platforms. You will be expected to develop, produce, and deliver digital video-first storytelling on major crime stories, investigations, and criminal justice issues.
Working with our Crime Correspondent, you will combine strong editorial judgment with sensitivity to victims, witnesses, and affected communities, producing content that meets Sky News standards and drives audience engagement.
What you'll do:
- Produce high-quality crime, policing, and justice coverage across formats, with a digital video-first focus and clear audience purpose
- Develop story treatments from initial brief through research, scripting, filming, editing, and delivery, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and impact
- Monitor crime, policing, court, and justice developments, identifying stories with national relevance, human impact, and investigative potential
- Work with correspondents to shape interviews, sequences, visual evidence, archive, graphics, and explainers into compelling multi-platform packages
- Ensure all content is legally and editorially compliant, including around contempt, identification, reporting restrictions, naming suspects, victims, and minors, and the handling of distressing material
- Deliver content at pace for breaking stories while maintaining high standards of verification, context, sensitivity, and platform optimization
Essential criteria:
- Strong editorial judgment on crime, policing, courts, and justice stories, including an understanding of legal and compliance risks
- An ability to bring in and run consequential investigations
- Excellent production skills across scripting, shooting, editing, picture selection, graphics, and digital platform delivery
- Ability to work calmly and decisively under pressure, especially on breaking crime stories and legally sensitive developments
- Strong verification, research, and source-handling skills, with the ability to distinguish confirmed facts from claims, rumor, or speculation
- Sensitivity and care when dealing with victims, witnesses, bereaved families, vulnerable people, and affected communities
- Clear understanding of digital video-first storytelling and how to optimize crime content for different audiences and platforms
- Collaborative mindset, with the ability to work effectively across editorial, technical, legal, and compliance teams
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Sky News
Sky News is a world-class news service with a spirit of innovation and a fresh approach to storytelling. Our aim is to be the best and most trusted place for news, reflecting the diversity of our audience. Made by people who dare to challenge. Made for people who want clarity in an uncertain world.
Benefits and perks
There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to life at Sky: the perks. Here’s a taster:
- Free Sky TV or NOW package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema
- Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution
- Private healthcare with mental health support
- Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance
- Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass, and Sky Protect
- Sharesave and Tech schemes
- A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
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Your office base
Osterley
Our Sky Group HQ. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology and workspaces, there’s plenty of space to see your big ideas come to life. Here you’ll find 13 subsidized restaurants and cafes. You can re-energise at our gym, catch the latest films at our cinema, get your car washed, and even get pampered at our beauty salon.
Our Osterley Campus is just a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station, or you can get one of our free shuttle buses from Osterley, Gunnersbury, and Ealing Broadway stations. Plus, there’s free onsite parking available for cars, motorbikes, and bicycles.
Who we are
We’re Sky, a leading media and entertainment company who connect millions with entertainment, sports, news, and arts through innovative products and services. Working with us means you’ll be bringing the joy of a better experience to more people, every day. All so we can do better and deliver better for our customers, colleagues, and society.
We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We're a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need as early as you can.
Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.
To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media.
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