Job Purpose
This is a digital news role requiring excellent knowledge of digital media, its formats and platforms. If you have excellent editorial understanding of current affairs, both political and social and the ability to lead a team of five journalists this is the opportunity for you
Who We Are
From April 2024, the majority of the BBC's Indian operations has moved to the Collective Newsroom which has been set up by some of the BBC's most experienced journalists in India. It has more than 250 journalists and operational staff, bringing you distinctive, impartial and world-class content and is the BBC's sole provider of content for its Indian language websites and social media platforms, including English. Based in the BBC's largest international market, we bring you the best of Indian journalism guided by the world's biggest and most reputable news organization. We provide digital, audio and television content in Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi and Telugu as well as English.
Our Vision
: Home to India's most credible, creative and courageous journalism.
Our Mission
: To lead with facts bringing diverse voices through innovative and impactful journalism in the public interest.
We are an equal-opportunity employer, that strongly supports diversity and inclusion at the workplace, and encourages female candidates and persons from other diverse groups such as marginalized, under-privileged communities and differently-abled people, to apply.
To know more about us, please visit our website : https://collectivenewsroom.com/
About BBC News Urdu
BBC News Urdu is one of the oldest language services in BBC World Service. Originally a radio service, it is now a predominantly digital service and provides up-to-date news and current affairs for the Urdu-speaking audiences in India, Pakistan as well as globally. Covering both domestic and international news stories, it is multiplatform, with a multimedia website with a focus on digital video, text, interactivity for both desktop, social and mobile platforms. The service aims to make international news relevant to Urdu speaking audiences and aims at bringing quality, impartial, original journalism with news and current affairs to the Urdu audience in both India and Pakistan.
Key responsibilities and accountabilities
- Responsible for originating and producing stories which may include scripting, editing, outputting, filming and presenting content across a range of digital output.
- Commission and select relevant materials ensuring they meet expectations of our audiences and adhere to the editorial guidelines.
- May be required to undertake on-air reporting, may be required to film and edit material for digital broadcast where appropriate.
- May include the production and presentation of live or recorded programmes
- May be required to present live or recorded content online (social media).
- As required, to allocate work to a team and check progress; ensure the professional contribution of staff and the quality of output.
- Seek ways to increase diversity in our workforce and to ensure that our output reflects the audiences we serve.
- Deliver journalism of the highest standard and within the required timeframe using available resources.
- To act as a facilitator of change, clearly communicating and distributing best practices between teams.
- Delivering to tight deadlines while maintaining the highest editorial standards.
- At all times to carry out duties in accordance with the BBC's health and safety policy.
Requirements
Knowledge, skills, training and experience
Essential:
- A high standard of editorial judgment, writing ability and production skills based on substantial digital journalism experience.
- Thorough knowledge of analytics and audience engagement tools and strategy
- Maximizes opportunities offered by existing and emerging technologies to their fullest extent.
- Ability to work effectively as a member of more than one team. Resolving conflicts as necessary.
- Ability to manage resources, staff, technical facilities and budgets, in order to make challenging broadcasting in the most cost effective manner.
- Demonstrates a commitment to improving diversity and understands how individual differences can benefit the Collective Newsroom.
- Prioritizes and plans activities taking into account for all the relevant issues and factors such as deadlines, staffing and resources.
- Ability to write creatively in an engaging manner, adapt, produce and translate with accuracy, clarity and style appropriate to differing audiences and forms of media suitable for multimedia output.
- The flexibility and adaptability to sustain performance, particularly under pressure to meet deadlines and changing priorities and circumstances.
- An understanding of health and safety procedures and how they apply to digital media.
