Journalist BBC Merseyside 22112
Journalist BBC Merseyside 22112
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Contract: 1 x Permanent contract; FullTime
Location:Liverpool Radio Merseyside
Band: C
Job Reference:22112
Salary:pro rata depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Were happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
1.Excellent career progression the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
2. Unrivalled training and development opportunities our inhouse Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
3. Benefits We offer a competitive salary package a flexible 35hour working week for worklife balance and 26 days annual leave 1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days a defined pension scheme and discounted dental health care gym and much more.
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
Job Introduction
BBC Merseyside covers one of the busiest news patches in the country regularly reporting on stories which lead the national news agenda. The team covers Liverpool and the surrounding city region of towns and villages along with parts of Cheshire and Lancashire.
Were currently looking for a multiskilled journalist to work as part of the Merseyside Local Story Team. This is a chance to be part of our friendly and talented team with a real cando spirit. The role will be based in the Liverpool newsroom and will predominantly consist of reporting on news stories on location or from the studio writing compiling and reading radio news bulletins writing stories for our online index and sometimes newsgathering for TV.
Youll need to be hands on and have a passion for storytelling with experience in breaking news have a great news reading voice production and digital journalism skills. Youll know what audiences expect from different platforms and how to turn around a multiplatform story under a tight deadline.
Main Responsibilities
As a Journalist you will:
- Regularly come up with highimpact ideas for local news stories that serve our audience and could travel further to regional or national audience.
- Use a range of video audio and digital equipment along with IT systems to research write assemble edit and deliver news stories to the highest professional standards for all platforms.
- Be required to present news stories on radio TV or online. This could be live or recorded.
- Exercise editorial judgment in developing stories and producing accurate legally sound and impartial journalism.
- Collaborate closely with other team members and with other departments within the BBC to ensure that output material is shared duplication is avoided and best practice is upheld.
- Tailor different news treatments for different audiences ensuring that the output reflects the audiences we serve.
- Deliverto tight deadlines while maintaining the highest editorial standards.
- Carry out duties at all times in accordance with the BBC health and safety policy.
As part of your application you are required to supply one example of your news reading skills. This bulletin example must be attached to your application. You can either paste the link in your application (links may appear as text) or you can send it toandif it is in MP3 format or similar.
Please ensure that there is a long expiry (some services have links that expire within days and we might not be able to access the audio if its deleted quickly.
Are you the right candidate
You will need:
- Significant recent experience as a journalist reporter and newsreader with a good knowledge of production techniques.
- Experience of working in a multimedia environment delivering for multiple platforms both broadcast and online.
- Sound legal knowledge and an understanding of law as applied to broadcast journalism.
- Strong editorial skills including good nose for news and analytical creative strong interviewing skills
- Experience of digital audio editing systems.
- The ability to use technology as required in order to gather material for broadcast.
- To understand how a team works effectively and demonstrate collaborative teamworking.
- To build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people.
- To demonstrate a commitment to improving diversity in the BBC and understand how individual differences can benefit the corporation.
- Effective planning and organisational skills ability to concentrate on several areas of work at one time delivering consistently to deadlines and reacting positively to changes and conflicting priorities.
- The ability to create video and social media content is also desired
About the BBC
We dont focus simply on what we do we also care about how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure youve read about our values and behaviourshere.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individuals unique contribution enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC whether thats to contribute to our programming or our wide range of nonproduction roles. The more diverse our workforce the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age gender ethnicity disability sexual orientation gender identity socioeconomic background religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC please clickhere.
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Employment Type
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