Senior Journalist, BBC News (Weekends - Digital News and Live)

at  BBC

Journalism
Permanent - Full Time
Singapore, Singapore, SG, 339510
BBC PS - Singapore
Job Closing Date: 11.59 pm GMT, 10th February 2025

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Senior Journalist
Job reference: 21081
Band: D
Positions Available: 1
Contract: Permanent
Location: Singapore
Please note that the application process will require you to upload a CV and complete the online application form with the opportunity to detail your experience, skills and knowledge required for the role.

DISCLAIMER

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

The Senior Journalist (weekends) for the BBC’s Digital Output team will play a key role providing coverage of UK and international stories, picking up coverage from London and the US and handing back to early morning editors based in the UK. It will especially oversee weekend output, covering the desk on Saturdays and Sundays as well as some shifts on weekdays. This role will take primary responsibility for live pages and live coverage.
You will be expected to assess the most important stories of the day to cover, write and edit accurate, pithy news stories and commission or even produce timely digital video - with flair and context. You will have a love of news, sharp reporting skills and a thoughtful approach to how we tell a story.
The work this team does faces global and UK audiences. The team will cover the biggest breaking global stories and also ensure UK audiences wake up to the strongest offer on our digital platforms.
Tasks will range from jumping on breaking news for a live page, writing or editing the definitive news lead, chasing and developing story angles and producing or commissioning video clips that set the news in context. We want journalists to be able to monitor social media, search trends and audience data and use that to help us build new audiences. You will also be expected to curate the front pages of the various editions of the website and the apps.
You will be expected to take charge of live, on-the-day coverage of major news stories and planned events in text and video, ensuring the content is rich, accessible and up to the minute.
The team needs people who are enthusiastic about breaking news, well versed with the UK and global news agenda, and who have a good understanding of the best way to tell stories for digital audiences.
You’ll be based in our Singapore bureau, which also gathers news content and runs live television output - so you may be called upon to support those teams as part of your work.