Your Role: Digital Journalist
As a Digital Journalist at Global, you will:
Key Responsibilities
- Create content for one of the UK’s leading news brands
- Use a variety of skills to bring your journalism to a wide audience
- Cover a wide variety of stories for LBC’s digital audience
What You’ll Love About This Role
- Think Big: Write the news for an audience of millions
- Own It: Create compelling original news stories for LBC
- Keep it Simple: Work quickly and accurately to deliver news stories
- Better Together: Work closely with colleagues in the newsroom and externally
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you’ll have:
- Covered multiple stories for LBC’s website
- Pitched ideas, carried out interviews
- Reacted to breaking news
- Written live blogs
- Built partnerships with multiple internal stakeholders in the London and regional newsrooms
- Contributed towards LBC’s digital readership targets
What You’ll Need
- Experience of working in a newsroom.
- All the skills needed to be an online journalist.
- This will require overnight and weekend work.
- You’ll be working from our London office, in Leicester Square.
What We Do
The UK and Europe’s largest Radio & Outdoor company, Global is home to respected, national market-leading media brands broadcasting across the UK on DAB & FM and around the world on Global Player, including Heart, Capital, LBC, Capital XTRA, Capital Dance, Classic FM, Smooth, Radio X and Gold.
Global Player allows listeners to enjoy all of Global’s radio brands, award-winning podcasts, and expertly curated playlists, in one place in app, on web and on smart speakers.
Global is also one of the leading Outdoor companies in both the UK & Europe, with over 253,000 sites reaching 95% of the UK population. Global’s extensive and diverse outdoor portfolio encompasses Transport for London’s Underground network, almost all major UK airports including Gatwick, the UK’s largest portfolio of roadside posters and premium digital screens in prime locations, as well as the UK’s largest network of buses including all major cities.
On-air, on Global Player and with our outdoor platforms combined, Global reaches 51 million individuals across the UK every week, including 26.3 million on the radio alone.
