This is News Central! We are not just another news channel; we are a megaphone for a people often unheard. Forget biased narratives and cookie-cutter stories – here, diverse voices take center stage, fearlessly reporting on what matters most. We challenge dominant narratives, analyse trends, reveal fresh perspectives and ignite conversations that can truly transform the society.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for alerting to editorial and legal standards issues.
- Responsible for projecting and determining cost information for coverage.
- Facilitating clear guidance and feedback to the field (Correspondents, Field Producers, Technical Crews).
- Ensure clear lines of communication are effectively maintained between key stakeholders to amplify and present key stories to their maximum potential.
- To ensure NC TV editorial and legal standards are upheld.
- To facilitate the news division operating within budget.
- Safety: Oversight of team safety on deployment in step with the Directors of Coverage, Sr. Director of Futures and Directors of Security.
- Ensure team safety is always the first consideration and at the heart of deployment decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Distinctiveness: To find ways to make NC TV coverage stand out from our competitors.
- Collaboration: Coordinating closely and building solid relationships across the
- News Croup - digital/social supervising editors, broadcast EPs, the regional, international and US bureaus - ensuring their coverage needs are met and exceeded.
- Breaking news: Responding quickly and proactively to priorities across the News Group.
- Shoring up deployments, editorial and logistics in the aftermath of breaking news in step with the Executive Producer, Head of Technical and Head of Digital.
- Identify key storylines and NC TV moments, and best showcase them across the platforms.
- To ensure a robust operation is in place in the immediate aftermath of a breaking news event that can execute effectively across all platforms.
- Planned projects: Ensuring coverage plans are well defined and full details are outlined in a documented fashion.
- Responsible for ensuring our best coverage is given the maximum exposure on all platforms.
Editorial authority:
- Take ownership of the editorial direction of the planning process, identifying opportunities to break news, create original and distinctive content, and thus generate clear cross-platform coverage priorities.
- This will include content for both television and digital platforms.
Competitiveness:
- Ensure NC TV is always ahead of the editorial curve and maintains its position as a market leader in global cross-platform news coverage.
Showcasing:
- To work with the platforms to best amplify NC TV exclusives, NC TV moments and key stories of our time.
- This position will be a key communicator and liaison with NC TV Domestic and programming.
Cross-platform planning:
- Planning coverage of key themes, scheduled news events and breaking news.
- Working in step with the expectations of the entire News Group: digital, social and broadcast and ensuring clear prioritisation to meet all the varying platform needs.
Logistical support:
- Ensuring that the things that make us able to react quickly (visas, logistics, accreditations) are all up to date.
- Ensure seamless and compelling coverage across all NC TV platforms with no logistical impediments to fast reactions of teams to breaking news and events.
Person Specification
- Bachelor's degree in Journalism or a related field preferred.
- In-depth knowledge and proven track record in cross-platform newsgathering and editorial with a minimum of 7 years' experience.
- Digital platform knowledge - Broad awareness of NC TV's digital and social platforms and priorities - what material works on each and how they perform in the competitive landscape.
- Building relationships - working with multiple stakeholders, able to navigate the complex, different arms of NC TV and build a network of relationships to ensure smooth cross-platform planning and communications and thereby finding opportunities to showcase international gatherings.
- Working under pressure - able to thrive in a pressured, breaking news environment.
- Able to respond to changes in the editorial agenda and respond to situations on the ground for our field teams.
- Exceptionally organised with meticulous attention to detail.
- Proven experience in editorial/legal standards and practices.
- Post-production and writing skills for television and digital media are required.
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