Video Journalist – Sky News (12M FTC)
Want to do the best work of your life? Make your mark at Europe’s leading entertainment brand. Our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work – a place where you can be yourself and let your skills shine.
Sky News is looking for a Video Journalist to join its award-winning digital team. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a world-class newsroom which excels in both breaking news video and premium content.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of researching, shooting, editing and delivering video content and will have an understanding of what works across our various owned and operated platforms as well as our social media channels.
You will be full of ideas for creative treatments for stories Sky News is covering and how to use our on-screen people, and you will also generate your own video ideas to shoot, voice and front. You will have exceptional news judgement and have a track record in identifying and pitching trending stories. You’ll also be a great writer and have a flair for scripts, headlines and thumbnails.
This is a shift-based role including earlies, lates and some weekends.
What you’ll do
- Create engaging digital video that works for each of our different platforms and social media channels
- Pitch and produce creative treatments, angles and ideas for stories Sky News is covering or you think should be covering
- Generate and pitch your own original video and story ideas to film, edit and front
- Collaborate with the AEs to create striking thumbnails and headlines to help sell our video content particularly on our Sky News app and YouTube
- Produce anything from premium long-form content, to explainers, to video analysis to breaking video news – you’ll work across the whole spectrum
What you’ll bring
- Have excellent news judgement and attention to detail
- Understand what video treatments and sells work across our different platforms from headlines to thumbnails to the opening shot of a video
- Have experience of delivering clear, accurate scripts, captions and headlines for digital
- Editorial and technical know-how with video editing tools – proficient in Adobe, Final Cut, Avid or Quantel)
- Have ‘best practice’ experience and legal knowledge to critique and sign-off sensitive video journalism
- Creativity and a sense of ‘now’
- Have experience of working in a newsroom and a recognised qualification in journalism and media law
Sky News
Sky News is a world-class news service with a spirit of innovation and a fresh approach to story-telling. Our aim is to be the best and most trusted place for news, reflecting the diversity of our audience. Made by people who dare to challenge. Made for people who want clarity in an uncertain world.
