Senior Journalist, Digital News

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom BBC Full time

Job Introduction
The BBC News website is one of the world’s largest and most popular news sites. We are looking for an enthusiastic and creative senior journalist to join our Digital Curation team, one of three core teams in our Digital Output department. You will help to produce our News Daily newsletter and Daily Briefing articles for an engaged audience. It’s a job for someone with considerable experience in digital news - equally comfortable with writing news and feature copy as with curation of content. As the recent News strategy highlighted, newsletters are key to our aim of driving daily habit among the audience

Main Responsibilities
- Excellent editorial judgement with significant experience writing and editing breaking news in text on digital platforms to tight deadlines
- A history of using social media, search and audience analytics to improve digital storytelling, reach new audiences and drive engagement
- A track record of covering the UK and international news agenda and delivering insightful, high-quality journalism to digital audiences
- The ability to very swiftly write and sub engaging news copy for news websites, but with attention to accuracy, context and tone
- A solid appreciation of how newsletters can be used to curate content, build engagement and bring audiences back to the BBC News site

About the BBC
We don’t focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's 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 that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here

Package Description
Band: D
Contract type: 9-month FTC/attachment (26.25 h/w)
Location: London
- **_Excellent career progression _**- the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
- **_Unrivalled training and development opportunities_** - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
- **_Benefits_**:

- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (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.

**Job Application Requirements**:

- CV
- Questionnaire with opportunity to detail your experience

**Any offer of employment with the BBC will be conditional upon you having the right to work in the UK.

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