Assistant Editor, Overnight

Sky team

Description

Want to do the best work of your life? Make your mark at Europe's leading entertainment brand. Our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work - a place where you can be yourself and let your skills shine.
This senior editorial role will put you at the sharp end of Sky News journalism, overseeing output on web and app overnight. The role includes covering events happening across the globe, from the US to Asia, commissioning to correspondents - as well as team management.
This is a shift-based role.
What You'll Do
  • Make key editorial decisions on what to cover and how to display our journalism across Sky News web and app when millions of users wake up
  • Edit and publish pieces throughout the night
  • Send push notifications for events breaking overnight
  • Commission analysis or eyewitness reports to foreign correspondents
  • Coordinate coverage across the wider newsroom
  • Offer guidance and commission pieces to the overnight reporter
  • Manage journalists, offer constructive feedback and stay across their development

Requirements

What you'll bring:
  • Impeccable editorial judgement
  • Highest standards of accuracy, balance and fairness
  • Have 'best practice' experience and legal knowledge to critique and sign-off sensitive pieces
  • The agility to multi-task and the ability to prioritise
  • Significant newsroom and breaking-news experience
  • Team management experience

Benefits & Perks

The Rewards
There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to : the perks. Here's a taster:
  • Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
  • The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
  • A generous pension package
  • Private healthcare
  • Discounted mobile and broadband
  • A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How to apply

Apply via link

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Sky

**Overview** With 24 million customers across six countries, Sky is Europe’s leading media and entertainment company and is proud to be part of the Comcast group. Our 32,000 employees help connect our customers to the very best entertainment, sports, news, arts and to our own local, original content. Following the success of Sky originals like Chernobyl, we plan to double our investment in original content by 2024. We’re also developing a new TV and movie studio, Sky Studios Elstree, which is expected to lead to the creation of over 2,000 new jobs and generate an additional £3 billion of production investment in UK creative sector in the first five years alone. Our technology allows Sky customers to watch what they want, when they want, how they want and connects millions of people to content they love. And our online streaming service, NOW, brings viewers all the enjoyment of Sky with the flexibility of a contract-free service. We also believe that a company of our scale has a responsibility that goes beyond our business, and into the community. We recently announced a series of commitments to help tackle racial injustice and improve diversity and inclusion. To ensure the commitments are delivered, Sky will invest £10million per year across its markets for each of the next three years. We’re committed to being Europe’s first net zero carbon entertainment company by 2030 – two decades before we have to – and we’re an inclusive employer recognised by The Times and Stonewall for our commitment to diversity.

Job Details

Posted on May 29

Isleworth, England, UK

Full time

Junior