Journalism Researcher, BBC News Channel

JOB BAND: B

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: BBC News Channel

LOCATION: London – Office based

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £24,800 - £34,800 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

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JOB PURPOSE

The News Channel delivers live and breaking news to audiences across the UK and around the world, 24 hours a day. As a Journalism Researcher, you'll pitch ideas and fix guests across a broad range of stories. ​When a story breaks, we want to speak to guests who can deliver in-depth analysis, react to breaking news, give eyewitness accounts or who can take stories forward with exclusive news lines. You’ll collaborate with colleagues across the BBC to maximise the value of our content and ensure its reach across the organisation.

This role is ideal for a hungry, hardworking, news-savvy producer with a knack for visual storytelling.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

You’ll be working in heart of the BBC’s newsroom on our rolling news operation, delivering high end coverage of the biggest global and domestic stories of the day. It’s fast-paced and demanding work. You’ll get opportunities to pitch creative treatments and build engaging TV sequences, as well as fixing news-making and agenda-setting guests.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITES AND IMPACT

• Pitching ideas for news coverage, and guests for planned and breaking news stories.
• You will work well under pressure, have a good contacts book and be able to hit the phones quickly during breaking news events. You will be persuasive, and know how to encourage guests to speak to the BBC and share their insights.
• You will write well-sourced briefs and will be confident speaking to presenters ahead of interviews, to make sure they are fully prepared.
• You will understand the importance of live and breaking news for the BBC News channel, BBC Online and iPlayer, and have ideas about stories and treatments that would appeal to audiences on these platforms.
• You are a curious and efficient problem solver, a team player that considers the various viewpoints people around you have on global topics. You will be a multi-skilled producer who thrives under pressure and can deliver on hourly deadlines.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Experience working in a newsroom
• Strong editorial judgement
• Good knowledge of news and current affairs and plugged into the stories of the moment
• A good contacts book
• Proven experience writing scripts and briefs

Disclaimer

This 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.

For any general queries, please contact: [email protected]

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.