Journalist (Newcastle Local Story Team)

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Part Time (28 hours per week)
DEPARTMENT: Radio Newcastle
LOCATION: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, office-based
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £27,600 – £33,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

We’re looking for an experienced, versatile journalist to join our team.  You’ll need to be hands on and with a passion for story-telling, with experience in breaking news, a great news reading voice and production skills. Digital journalism skills are also considered desirable. You’ll need to be a motivated, multi-skilled journalist to help shape our content, focusing on bringing to life the stories that matter to our audience. We want a driven and passionate person who is keen to reach new audiences through our various platforms. You’ll ideally know what audiences expect from different platforms and how to turn around a story to meet a tight deadline.

The role requires someone who will be keen to do more than just look for press releases – we want original and inclusive ideas that help reflect the diverse audience Newcastle. Because news bulletins are a key requirement of the job, please send a demo radio news bulletin in the form of an MP3 or WAV file, no longer than 3 minutes to [email protected] when you apply. If you have difficulties in emailing your demo, please use WeTransfer to send. Any other forms of submission will not be considered.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Are you a team player looking to join a local news team in the BBC where your skillset will be acknowledge and nurtured? Do you want to move to a new way of working within an ambitious broadcasting station? This is a great opportunity to join an ambitious team here at Radio Newcastle. If you love telling local stories that matter to the people that live here in the North East, we want to hear from you. We need people who match our ambition for the station. The role is demanding and we set high standards. But we also want to have fun.  If you’re a journalist with plenty of ideas for creative storytelling then we want to hear from you.

• Are you available to work weekends?
  We are looking for someone to work predominantly part of our weekend line-up, with an extra weekday shift either immediately before or after the weekend.
• Do you have a strong broadcast voice?
  You will work on a wide range of stories with the audience at the heart of it.  You must be as skilled in researching, briefing and scripting around an interview, as chatting to a presenter and engaging with our listeners.
• Can you deliver creative treatments on air? If so, we want to hear from you.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• You will have experience of responding to breaking news with the ability to summarise complex issues calmly and clearly under significant time pressure. You may be deployed to report on stories so live production experience is critical.
• You will come up with original story ideas, guests and creative treatments and carry out background research.
• Compiling and presenting our hourly news bulletins, with a mixture of weekend and weekday working.
• Our producers work with colleagues across BBC News and other parts of the corporation. We expect high quality writing skills and the highest standards of accuracy, impartiality and fair dealing in accordance with the BBC’s Editorial values.
• Our audience are using us 7 days a week; our weekend breakfast and mid-morning content is a crucial aspect of our output – so expect early starts.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Reporting
• Newsreading
• Editorial judgement
• Broadcast experience
• Creativity