# Senior Journalist

**Company**: BBC
**Location**: Birmingham, GBR
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £42,000–£52,000
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Media & Entertainment

**Apply**: https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Birmingham-Snr-Journalist%2C-News-Social-%28Weekend%29-B1-1AY/1373424557/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

As Senior Journalist in the BBC News Social team, you'll help shape the future of news on social media.

We’re on a mission to make BBC News the most trusted and used news brand on social media - reaching audiences globally, ensuring that our journalism reaches and resonates with the audiences who consume their news on social.

Central to this is publishing our journalism with speed, accuracy and authority. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping how BBC News appears on platforms like YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. You’ll ensure our output is accurate, engaging and optimised for digital‑first consumption.

You’ll work closely with teams in the BBC Newsroom covering some of the biggest stories of our time, from breaking news to global conflicts and deep investigations and bring their reporting to life in ways that connect with digital-first audiences.

This is your chance to help shape how BBC News shows up on social: bold, fast, creative, distinctive, and relentlessly audience‑first.

**Your Key Responsibilities & Impact**

- Oversee high-quality weekend social publishing across BBC News platforms, ensuring all content meets editorial standards and delivers impact during major news moments

- Edit, sub and optimise scripts, headlines, copy, thumbnails and visual treatments to maximise accuracy, clarity and platform-specific performance

- Collaborate with correspondents and reporters to develop innovative social-first treatments of BBC journalism informed by audience insight, data and social listening

- Produce, shape and edit world-class social video and visual news content

- Coordinate daily social workflows, supporting colleagues and maintaining fast, accurate publishing during breaking news situations

- Contribute to editorial planning by identifying opportunities for distinctive coverage across UK, political and international news stories

- Play a central role in our weekend coverage, balancing speed, accuracy and editorial judgement to maintain audience trust in fast-moving situations

**Your Key Skills & Experience**

- Proven ability to create, write, sub and publish news across major social platforms in all formats, with a strong eye for accuracy, tone and platform nuance

- Strong editorial judgement and experience covering breaking news at national or international level, with confidence making real-time editorial decisions

- Collaborative and calm under pressure, able to work across teams, maintain high standards and provide constructive feedback

- Proficient in tools like Final Cut Pro and Photoshop, with experience overseeing the full production cycle of social or digital video news content

- Deep understanding of social audience behaviour, including content discovery, moderation and sharing, and the ability to turn insight into recommendations and new ideas

- Comfortable using analytics tools to interpret performance data, identify patterns and inform both daily decisions and longer-term strategy

- Keen understanding of news consumption trends on social media platforms

**Benefits**

- Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.

- Excellent career and professional development.

- Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.

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

## Skills

### Required
- Final Cut Pro
- Photoshop
- social media publishing
- editorial judgement
- analytics tools

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