Content Editor - Programmes, Good Morning Britain

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This role will work on GMB. This role involves regular night working.

To produce dynamic and innovative programmes of the highest editorial and technical quality for GMB. On a day-to-day basis these roles are the operational leaders at the heart of the newsroom putting together the daily programme and outputting it from the gallery.

Content Editors should have a strong breadth of experience and understanding of making and delivering impactful news and magazine programmes. This role requires a journalist with sound judgement of the GMB agenda and the ability to motivate both input and output teams in a creative and disciplined manner in a fast-paced deadline driven environment.

We are looking to conduct interviews:

• Generating Programme running orders making key editorial judgements to provide an appropriate mix of stories and live guests for the GMB programme
• Generating original story ideas and treatments
• Compiling and refining the running orders
• Deciding programme headlines, teases, coming ups and trails
• Present daily editorial plans to GMB teams
• Brief Correspondents, News Desks and Presenters on the programme content and their role in it
• Overall responsibility for transmission from the gallery
• Making a final check of scripts and packages prior to transmission
• Making decisions on news values, legal issues, taste and decency
• Maintaining an overview of programme timing
• Making decisions about changes to the running order during transmission
• Making the final call on whether an element or story runs in a GMB show
• Confidently making decisions around legal issues, taste and decency, and demonstrate a good understanding of the right decisions to elevate
• Ability to act as Content Editor News as required
• Ensure our programmes reflect the diversity of our audience through a balanced mix of reporters and contributors covering stories that connect with our viewers
• To line manage colleagues across the Newsroom, taking on all mentoring, development, pastoral, appraisals and other duties
• Work closely with all parts of the ITV News operation, ensuring there is close co-operation, understanding and creative cross-promotion

These are the main requirements of the role and is not an exhaustive list of duties. It is intended to reflect the nature, range, and context of the work, which will change over time.

• A lively, creative and…