Job Introduction
The BBC News website is one of the world’s largest and most popular news sites, and this role will put you at the heart of it. We are looking for an enthusiastic and creative senior journalist to join our Digital News team in Singapore. You will help to produce stories, videos and features on the biggest daily news, bringing in many millions of readers from the UK and around the world.
It’s a job for someone with deep experience in digital news - equally comfortable working on both fast-paced breaking news and the roll-out of planned content.
Main Responsibilities
A Senior Journalist on the Digital News team will be expected to write, edit, sub and commission stories for the BBC News website. This role has many aspects: it could focus on monitoring the news, generating ideas for coverage and helping set the daily agenda. A key part of this role will be making decisions on coverage for both International and UK audiences. An understanding of how search and social trends and audience data improve our journalism will be part of the job. This role will also be called upon to manage the curation and promotion of news on our digital platforms.
Are you the right candidate?
The successful candidate will have:
- Excellent editorial judgement with significant experience writing and editing breaking news in text on digital platforms
- A history of using social media, search and audience data to improve digital storytelling, reach new audiences and broaden coverage
- A track record of covering the international and UK news agenda and delivering insightful, high-quality journalism to digital audiences
- Experience and understanding of the formats, tools, and techniques to run rolling digital news coverage in both text and video
- The ability to very swiftly write and sub engaging news copy for news websites, but with attention to accuracy, context and tone
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 below document: https://performancemanager.successfactors.eu/S001190811T2/Our_BBC_Values.pdf
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.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic 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 visit https://www.bbc.co.uk/diversity/
