Broadcast Journalist

**The Team: U105, **a personality led station that broadcasts from the heart of Belfast with over 261,000 people tuning in each week across Northern Ireland for a combined total of 2.1 million hours per week. U105 offers a superb mix of classic pop hits from the 80s through to melodic contemporary artists, soft rock, classic/new country and the present day.

**Your Role**: In this role you will write and present hourly news bulletins for U105. You will also generate audio and written content for broadcast as well as online platforms.

***Day to day you will**:

- Collate and deliver news bulletins
- Pitch and provide original content for multi-platform outlets, including programming and online
- Undertake relevant background news research
- Ensure content is compliant with media law
- Liaise with other members of the production and technical teams
- Shift work will be required which will include early/late shifts, weekends and public holidays.

**What we’re looking for from you**:

- An energetic journalist with flair and imagination to craft relevant news content for the audience.
- An ability to write accurate, tight and easily understood news copy.
- Ability to work well and calmly in a live newsroom environment; handle a rapidly changing news agenda and deliver to tight deadlines.
- Good broadcasting voice.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- Knowledge and experience of audio editing - preferably Adobe - is highly desirable..
- A willingness to engage with mobile and video journalism
- A full clean drivers licence

**How to apply**:
**We are Wireless Ireland**: We create great audio and digital products. Our live radio and podcasts, along with our web and social pages, play a massive part in our listeners lives. We engage, we inform and we entertain with our market leading products. In Ireland we own or represent stations in all main urban centres, and we create award winning solutions for our commercial partners. We are also part of News Broadcasting with radio stations like Virgin Radio, talkSPORT, Times Radio and talkRADIO which are redefining speech broadcasting on digital audio platforms, connected TV and beyond. Wireless Ireland is wholly owned by News Corp.

**Life at News**: At News UK & Ireland our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion **diversity and inclusion**, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the **Health and Wellbeing** of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:
In addition we also offer:

- 25 days **holiday** **per year
- **Maternity** **leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & **paternity** **leave up to 2 weeks
- **‘Bikes for Work’** scheme
- Wide range of **training** **available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any **reasonable adjustments** during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.