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Radio 5 Live broadcasts continuous news, sport and topical speech programming, bringing major stories and events as they happen, and providing context through wide-ranging anaylsis and discussion. Our audience relationship is at the heart of all our output, listeners interact on our topics minute by minute and we try hard to reach parts of the UK currently under served by other parts of the BBC.

Journalists at 5 Live are critical to the station's output. They are responsible for story ideas, story research, guest fixing, scripting and audio editing. They will attend programme meetings on a daily basis, suggesting stories and guests for that day's output, and will then be required to deliver that content, whether for the linear output or for digital.

Our journalists will often be involved in longer term planning, and will sometimes be out of the office on an Outside Broadcast. As well as having sound journalistic skills, they will also be confident team players, and familiar with 5 Live's audience strategy.

These positions are on the 5 Live Breakfast programme, which has a 24/7 rota pattern including earlies, lates and weekends.

The successful candidate will have;

• Experience as a journalist in broadcast news
• Significant experience of live news production
• Proven interest in news and current affairs
• Experience of digital and social news treatments
• Working knowledge/understanding of 5 Live and its audience

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We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, social background, religion and/or belief. And we promote flexible working opportunities where operational needs allow.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here

Band: C

Contract: x3 Continuing, x1 12 month FTC/Attachment

Base: MediaCity, Salford

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

Job Application Requirements:

• CV
• Questionnaire by following the process through Careers Hub

Any offer of employment with the BBC will be conditional upon you having the right to work in the UK