Broadcast Journalist (Weekend), Part Time, BBC Tees

Job description

BBC Tees is the Radio Academy Station of the Year (under 1 million) 2014, with a strong track record of creative and original journalism.

We cover the socially diverse areas of Teesside, County Durham and North Yorkshire. It’s a fascinating and busy news patch, in a region with pride, history and potential.

Role Responsibility

As Broadcast Journalist you'll be part of our busy news team, contributing new ideas for delivering content. You will be expected to be proficient and experienced in a variety of roles, such as preparing and presenting news bulletins, producing live news programmes, and reporting. You will work at the weekend and be confident in making editorial decisions on breaking stories as well as having the ability to generate your own original stories. An excellent broadcast voice is essential.

It will also be your responsibility to ensure our stories reach a wider audience through social media.

The Ideal Candidate

As an experienced radio journalist, you'll have a track record of generating original stories; bags of ideas; creative treatments, first class writing skills, an excellent radio voice and ability to work in a multi-platform environment.  You'll need strong editorial judgement, news awareness, and experience of bulletin reading and reporting.  Ideally you'll know the area but having a good grasp of the region's news and sport agenda is a must.

IMPORTANT APPLICATION INFORMATION

In addition to your online application which will include registering on our Careers Hub site and completing the online questionnaire, you will also need to send us a demo, ideally in MP3 format (alternatively a file transfer link in an email), which showcases your newsreading skills. The audio should last no longer than 2 minutes and be emailed to ************@*******.** close date. If you do not submit a demo or if it arrives late your application will not be considered.

Package Description

Continuing

- Grade 5/7D

 

About the Company

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are very important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below. You’ll be asked questions relating to them as part of your application for this role.