Job Description

Job Introduction The BBC News website is one of the world’s largest and most popular news sites. It has mobile and desktop editions for different geographic audiences, and UK-facing and International-facing apps. Digital teams work closely with other BBC platforms and services to showcase the best journalism from across the BBC. The BBC News digital team in Asia produce a bespoke front page for web and mobile, specially curated for audiences in the region. It includes pages for Asia, China, India and Australia. Content produced by the website’s Asian teams is used across all other editions of the BBC News website and on the BBC homepages. The successful candidate will work on our digital output and its associated services, primarily in text and video. You will also work closely with our television and newsgathering teams based in the Singapore bureau. Main Responsibilities This role will be responsible for the day-to-day reporting on Asian and global news events and issues. You will come up with new and imaginative angles on major stories whilst devising creative ways of telling stories on our digital platforms. An important part of the role is being able to navigate social media platforms to source stories and perspectives as well as maintaining knowledge of the region and contacts.
Are you the right candidate? The ideal candidate will have excellent writing skills and the ability to produce clean, clear news stories under the tightest of deadlines. Central to the role is the ability to think up imaginative and innovative ways of presenting stories for our digital platforms with social media expertise and experience of social newsgathering from the wide variety of platforms popular across Asia You will need a clear sense of how to integrate social media, video and graphics into our coverage and an understanding of how mobile devices are transforming storytelling. Fluency in a regional language is an advantage About the BBC 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, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise. To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here Package Description Band: C
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Location: Singapore Any offer of employment with the BBC will be conditional upon you having the right to work in Singapore