Screen Journalist

On-Screen Journalist

ITV News Channel Television Contract type:
Permanent Office location:
Jersey Hiring range: £30,195 - £60,283

The team

Our ITV News teams deliver high quality, trustworthy and impartial journalism to millions of people on television and online. It’s a fast moving environment with a huge variety of roles on offer and plenty of challenges. We operate from 11 main news production centres across England, Northern Ireland, Wales and the Channel Islands. We also have a Political Unit based in the heart of Westminster and produce a range of current affairs & factual programming at ITV Wales, UTV and ITV Border.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an On-Screen Journalist to join our Channel news team based at our newsroom and studio in Jersey. This is a high profile, on‑screen role for someone with a proven track record of delivering striking, high-quality, distinctive journalism across our platforms on television, ITVX and online.

Jersey is a unique region with its own political system and infrastructure and we're looking for a person who will work across the full range of stories and issues that are important to our community.

The successful candidate will have a strong track record in journalism, with great story‑telling ability as well as a sound knowledge of broadcast regulation and the law. You will use your journalistic skills to ensure your reports are informative, factually accurate, fair and balanced.

We are a multi‑platform operation so you will be enthusiastic about developing an online presence, ideally having proven experience of using digital media to extend the reach of your journalism.

As an established self‑starter, you will immerse yourself in the community, ensure our news gathering reflects the different communities that make up our audience and develop great contacts to deliver agenda‑setting coverage across the region.

This is a busy news patch and you will need self‑discipline and an excellent work ethic. You must be a self‑starter who regularly contributes original ideas. Alongside your first‑class communication and team‑working skills, experience of self‑shooting, laptop editing and live reporting is desirable. We will expect you to develop your camera and editing skills to complement our news gathering and story‑telling.

So, if you’re passionate about telling strong human interest stories and have the skills and experience to ensure our outputs, both on air and online, continue to offer a distinctive news service, then we’d love to hear from you.

• To consistently generate original and creative ideas, contributing to the news agenda of the day, on‑screen and online
• To research and develop story ideas thoroughly and creatively for on‑air and online output
• To make, maintain and nurture a wide range of relevant contacts
• To be pro‑active about diversity, equity & inclusion ensuring the output reflects news stories and issues across the audience spectrum
• To source interesting contributors, from all parts of the community, who will bring the story to life
• To tell the story through engaging and authoritative presentation either through a live broadcast, as part of a news package, or through a range of digital platforms. On screen, to use picture, natural sound and soundbites to give the story maximum impact.
• To self shoot items (where appropriate to the story and the conditions) to a high standard
• To edit packages in a confident, creative and efficient manner, making full use of all production tools to make the most interesting item possible
• To curate ITV’s digital offering on the website or ITVX as required
• To create accurate graphics for bulletins, programmes and packages which clearly illustrate stories and communicate ideas using the template based graphic system
• To write scripts that are accurate, concise and engaging
• To meet all online and on‑air deadlines throughout the day, reacting quickly to breaking stories, and regularly liaising with the news desk
• To provide copyright clearance details and basic media management (sourcing, booking and returning tapes to the library)
• To exercise excellent editorial judgement maintaining professional…