Journalist

Overview

Join BBC Wales News as a Digital Journalist, helping us grow a distinctive, audience-first digital offer. You’ll originate and produce compelling stories across a broad range of topics, shaping content around audience needs and behaviours. Working across the News site, app and social, you’ll deliver clear, engaging journalism that reaches and resonates with audiences across Wales and beyond.

Why join the team

This is a chance to work at the heart of a fast-moving digital newsroom with real scope to shape what we do. You’ll collaborate with experienced journalists and specialists, experiment with formats, and see your original ideas travel. Your work will directly influence how we serve audiences across Wales and beyond — helping us build a more relevant, inclusive and engaging digital news service for a variety of audiences on and off platform.

• Pitch, produce and deliver original digital stories across a broad range of topics, driven by audience motivations and news value.
• Write and package content for maximum impact, including headlines, visuals, explainers and formats suited to site and social.
• Use audience insight and data to inform story selection, presentation and follow-ups.
• Plan, produce and publish to tight deadlines, working closely with editors to maximise reach and engagement.
• Adapt content for different platforms and audiences, ensuring clarity, accuracy and relevance.
• Collaborate with colleagues across teams to identify opportunities and share best practice.

• Recent experience producing high-quality digital journalism with strong editorial judgement, accuracy and news sense.
• Demonstrable ability to originate engaging story ideas and deliver them effectively for online audiences.
• Strong writing, headline and structuring skills, with the ability to tailor content for different platforms.
• Experience using core digital tools and workflows, including publishing systems and multimedia production.
• Ability to work efficiently under pressure, managing multiple priorities to deadline within a collaborative team.

• Experience using audience data to inform commissioning and evaluate performance.
• Ability to produce content in a range of formats, including video, live pages or visual explainers.
• Familiarity with BBC systems and workflows (e.g. Optimo, Chartbeat).
• Knowledge of Welsh audiences, communities or key issues.
• Experience of working on quality Social and Digital Video content.

Disclaimer:
This job description describes the essential characteristics of the job and its principal accountabilities. It is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all duties involved.

Please note:

If offered this role, the BBC will conduct employment screening checks which include reference checks, eligibility to work checks, and, if applicable, safeguarding and any adverse media/social media checks. Any offer 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. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

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Redeployment:
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC. Priority consideration is given to redeployment candidates ahead of other applicants when at risk of redundancy.