News Reader

Overview

Your role:
The creation of the Onic News Hub represents a strategic shift toward broadcast specialisation. As an Onic Hub Journalist, you are at the operational heart of Onic’s networked news strategy. Your primary focus is on elite-level content curation, scripting, and on-air delivery. Operating from our centralised hub, you will compile, voice, and distribute high-quality, bespoke news and sports bulletins for our six local stations.

You will seamlessly blend national and international wire copy with hyper-local audio and scripts sent in by our "on-the-ground" local journalists. This role requires a fast-paced mind and an exceptional broadcast voice, ensuring every station bulletin sounds authoritative, distinct, and deeply connected to its audience.

• Compile hourly and half hourly news and sport bulletins tailored specifically to each of the six Onic brands, ensuring the right balance of local, national, and international stories.
• Monitor and utilise national and international news wires (including the Bauer news syndicate) to script accurate, engaging, and concise copy for shared broadcast.
• Receive, edit, and seamlessly integrate audio assets, soundbites, and local copy provided by our network of Multi-Media Local Journalists stationed across the country.

• Adapt your voice delivery to suit each brand's distinct tone when reading bulletins for multiple stations, adhering to brand-specific style guides.
• Ensure all station intros, outros, and station-specific sweepers are flawlessly executed to maintain the local identity and listener trust of each individual brand.

• React swiftly to breaking national and international news, ensuring all bulletins are updated dynamically and accurately.
• Ensure all copy generated within the Hub adheres strictly to media law (defamation, contempt) and the Coimisiún na Meán (CNaM) Codes of Fairness, Objectivity, and Impartiality.
• Work closely with and seek direction from the Group Head of News & Sport to maintain consistent editorial policies and standardise best practices across all Onic news and sport output.

• Manage the technical distribution of networked content, ensuring the correct audio reaches the correct split-link playout systems precisely on time.
• Collaborate with the wider Hub team and freelance panel to ensure a smooth handover of live copy and audio during shift changes, weekends, and peak periods.

• Broadcast & Journalism
  
  Experience:
  
  A degree in journalism or media, with extensive experience in a fast-paced radio newsroom environment.
• Exceptional Voice & Delivery: A highly versatile, authoritative, and engaging broadcast voice. (Applicants must provide an audio showreel demonstrating different bulletin reading styles).
• Fast-Paced Curation: A proven ability to synthesize large amounts of information from wire services and local reporters into punchy, accurate radio copy under strict hourly deadlines.
• Technical Mastery: Highly proficient in the News Boss software system, audio editing software, and network playout/distribution systems.
• Brand Agility: A deep understanding of Onic's different station demographics and the ability to instantly switch gears between a young urban audience and a mature regional audience.
• Shift Flexibility: Willingness to work a structured roster that includes early mornings and evenings.

Every day our audiences welcome us into their lives and allow us to share their day through. Individually and collectively in every setting and at any time of the day we are their trusted companion. Their trust allows us to connect in a deep and meaningful way across our audio, digital and online platforms. The fusion of the strength of our heritage and our cutting edge innovation enables us to deliver what our communities want, when they want it.

We’re about connecting and cultivating communities of loyal listeners, online and on-air. With a monthly media footprint of over 10 million across on air and digital we have real broadcast coverage across Ireland. A national network that is…