# Journalist

**Company**: BBC
**Location**: Tbilisi, GEO
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Media

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## Description

We are seeking a journalist to work as part of the team monitoring Russian media based in Tbilisi, Georgia.

You will have excellent Russian and a proven journalistic record of writing news reports and analytical pieces in English.

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Identifying news and key insights from Russian broadcast, print, online, and social media

- Writing engaging reports in English in a range of formats – alerts, briefings, analyses, and explainers

- Using a variety of tools and techniques to mine the media for information and story ideas, identify emerging trends and narratives, and contribute to advance planning for coverage of key events

- Working within a shift pattern, which may need to be adjusted in response to major developing events

The successful candidate will have:

- Excellent monitoring, writing, and editing skills, with the ability to deliver output that maintains the highest journalistic standards and is consistent with BBC's editorial guidelines

- A good grasp of BBC Monitoring's editorial priorities and customer groups, and the ability to identify stories that matter to them

- Excellent knowledge of Russian and a proven ability to translate content from Russian-language broadcast and social media into idiomatic written English quickly and accurately

- Demonstrable journalistic experience in writing and sub-editing news reports and insight pieces in English

- A thorough understanding of Russia's domestic politics, foreign policy priorities, and tactics, as well as the media scene in the country and its outlets targeting audiences abroad

- Good data research and analysis skills

- Excellent team-working and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment

In return, you will benefit from:

- Fair pay and flexible benefits specific to your location and contract type

- Excellent career and professional development opportunities

- Support in your working life

- A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do

## Skills

### Required
- Russian
- English
- journalism
- media monitoring
- analysis
- report writing
- editing

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