Senior Journalists

Job Details

• Job Band: D
• Contract Type:
  Part-time FTC/Attachment (14 hours per week) until 26/03/2027
• Department:
  News & Current Affairs, News Content
• Location:
  
  Salford
• Proposed Salary Range:
  Up to £50,000 Full Time Equivalent depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Journalist with demonstrable news experience and specialist knowledge of Business and Economics. This role will shape and deliver some of the BBC’s most high profile early morning output and work on our Award winning World Service programmes. You will set up and studio produce Wake Up To Money on BBC Radio 5 Live and the business segments on Radio 4’s Today programme.

Your work will help ensure both programmes land the biggest stories, the strongest guests, and benefit from clear, engaging editorial treatments. You will work on World Business Express and World Business Report editing and producing both programmes alongside the Presenter. This role suits someone who thrives on fast-moving news, has excellent editorial judgement and enjoys turning complex stories into compelling radio.

• Maintain a detailed understanding of the domestic and international business news agenda.
• Chair editorial meetings and demonstrate strong news judgement while bringing out the best in colleagues.
• Lead the daily production team and provide clear editorial guidance to journalists on shift. Draw up running orders for three distinct strands of BBC business output and select stories that suit each programme’s audience and tone.
• Studio produce Wake Up To Money and the Today business segments, making rapid editorial decisions and communicating clearly with presenters and colleagues in London.
• Develop original stories and secure agenda‑setting guests by maintaining rolling bids with major UK businesses. Ensure diversity in story selection, guest booking and editorial approach.
• Attend daily departmental news meetings, contributing ideas and gathering key information. Maintain strong communication with presenters, the Money and Work department and the Today team in London.
• Develop ideas for outside broadcasts and lead the planning and production when programmes go on the road.

Essential Criteria:

• Extensive journalism experience with strong news judgement.
• Deep understanding of business, economics, and global affairs and how the UK economy works.
• Experienced in output editing live programmes and supporting high performing production teams, including guiding junior colleagues. Clear, effective communicator skilled at processing complex information, briefing presenters, and leading editorial meetings.
• Proven ability to respond rapidly to breaking news, reshape running orders, and make fast, sound editorial decisions.
• Strong grasp of the BBC’s editorial guidelines and confidence presenting ideas to senior stakeholders.

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

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.

Please note:

If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct employment screening checks which include reference checks; eligibility to work checks; and, if applicable to the role, safeguarding and adverse media/social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory. Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our recruitment policy.

Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

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We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.