research into different media job vacancies

1. Employment within the industry (media)
By Marcel Stasiorowski

2. Industry research
This presentation was meant to follow
up on my inspirational ideas post that I
have created previously. But due to
lack of job vacancies in the field of
natural history and narration for media
platforms and companies, so I decided
to change my job vacancy search to
sports journalism as it has a much
greater job vacancy field and it is also
a media field that Im well oriented and
fascinated with and have knowledge in
that form of media.
Sports journalism is well known in the UK
through big media companies like, Sky Sports,
BBC Sports, BT Sports, and ITV. Those media
companies are well known for broadcasting
various events in Men’s/Women’s Football,
Rugby, F1, Cricket, Tenis, and darts form around
the uk and external parties for example UEFA
Champions league or Grand Prix. There's various
forms of Sports journalism from live reporter to
newspaper/magazine editor and radio
operator/commentator.

3. BBC Sport job vacancies
BBC Sports is the sport division of the BBC, providing
national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and
online platforms. The BBC holds the television and
radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports,
broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship
analysis programmes like Match of the day, Test
match special, Ski Sunday, Today at Wimbledon and
previously Grandstand. Results, analysis and media
coverage is also added to the BBC Sport Website and
through the BBC Red Button interactive television
service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Sport
The job role requirements include the following:
-Being a part of a team of writers and digital content makers who spot great stories and generate original journalism.
-Breaking quick, accurate and engaging written news stories under pressure and up to high standard.
-Helping to make our coverage of events like the hundred, commonwealth Games and the Rugby League World cup even more engaging
trough creative storytelling on a variety of media platforms.
-working on live sporting events - helping produce the industry leading live texts, reports, news and features
-Suggesting creative content to News Editors for on the day commissions reacting to the days news agenda or big social media talking
points to inform and entertain the audience.
- Producing concise content or short reports from agency copy or other material from BBC departments and programmes.
- Being receptive to feedback and good at building positive working relationships with peers.
Candidate Requirements:
- You should be able to write quickly, accurately and succinctly as well as experience of how to find and generate stories for a digital
audience
- Sound editorial judgement and the ability to make quick decisions under pressure
- A passion for the stories that are generated by sport, not only by the stars but underserved members of society.
- Engaged with social media, with an understanding of what sports fans are talking about and what they want to read.
- Interested with the current news and sport news agenda and have proven editorial judgement.
- A good understanding of how to optimise storytelling for mobile phones.
- Mindset is important: we want enthusiasm, ideas and creativity coupled with good communication and organisational skills.
- Demonstrate a commitment to improving diversity in the BBC and understand how individual differences can benefit the workplace and
output.
- We would also be interested to hear of any specialist sporting knowledge and interest.
- A strong understanding of social media and online tools and how these can be used to promote BBC Sport's content.
- Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people.
Contract description:
Band: C
Contract type: 2 x Continuing and 5 x Fixed Term
Location: Office base Mediacity when required, home working to be discussed

4. Job Introduction: BBC Sport Scotland serves audiences across digital, television
and radio broadcasting football, rugby and a wide range of of other sports and
personalities. Sportscene covers Scottish football and much more sports for example
Premiership, men and women, Championship, scottish cup and Scottish
internationals with live, highlights and analysis.
Role Responsibility: Permanent positions are filed on a freelance/casual basis,
they involve weekend and evening work, most involve working in Glasgow or
traveling to the location of the sporting event.
The specific job roles are:
-Journalist for Radio Bulletin and Matchday reporting
-Content production across television, radio and digital
-Match commentary
Candidate Requirements:
-Having a passion and knowledge for sports in Scotland
-Bring diverse perspectives and experiences to the team
-Having relevant skills and experience in the area you would like to work in and
understand the job responsibility
- Journalist for Radio Bulletin and Matchday reporting - Create a script and do a
post-match report as a video and send us the link
- Content production across television, radio and digital - Provide 200 words on your
experience working in TV, digital and radio
- Match commentary - Send a link to any existing commentary you have done.
Package Description
Band: Freelance/Casual
Contract type: Talent Pool
Location: Glasgow
Job Introduction: The BBC Sports team are looking for a talented senior journalist to become a key part of the output
team on the BBC Sport website and app.
Senior journalists are essential to the content. They work in a variety of roles, from curating the front page, subbing
and publishing content, to running the newsdesk and supervising BBC’s hugely popular live text coverage.
In this role you will need to have great editorial judgement, be adaptable, a leader and passionate about driving the
output behind the scenes.
Role Responsibility:
Senior journalists are expected to do the following:
-Make editorial decisions quickly and confidently with the ability to respond calmly and positively to changing events
and circumstance
- Commission news stories and features to engage audiences.
- Sub content and manage indexes
- Ensure published content is of the highest standards (e.g.) it is accurate, fair and impartial and meets the BBC's
editorial guidelines
- Use data analytics to ensure the website showcases in the best way possible.
- Take control of the BBC Sport homepage across all digital platforms, using editorial judgement
- Provide professional feedback and act as a line manager when required
- Work different shift patterns and weekends
Candidate Requirements:
-BBC Sports require an experienced senior journalist, particularly those who have worked in the newspaper industry or
online written media.
-Should have proven editorial judgement in a newsroom where pictures, graphics, social media, video and stats are
just as important as the written word - should have considerable experience in journalism.
-A consistency of approach, thorough knowledge of platforms and understanding of on-demand media
-Being able to work under pressure.
-BBC Sport online has an audience of around 27m browsers a week and you will make key decisions for them.
Therefore, this is not an entry-level role and you must be able to demonstrate experiences of many of the duties listed
in the role responsibility section.
Package Description
Band: D
Contract type: 1 x Continuing
Location: Office base Mediacity when required, home working to be discussed

5. Sky Sports is a group of British subscription sports
channels operated by the satellite pay television company
Sky Group and is the dominant subscription television
sports company in the UK and Ireland. It has played a major
role in the increased commercialisation of British sport since
1991, and has sometimes played a large role inducing
organisational changes in the sports it broadcasts, most
known for when it persuaded the Premier League to break
away from the English Football League in 1992.
Sky Sports Main Events include, Premier League, Football,
Cricket, Golf, F1, Action and Arena are available as a
premium package on top of the basic Sky package. These
services are also available as premium channels on nearly
every satellite, cable and IPTV broadcasting system in the
UK and Ireland. Sky Sports News, Sky Sports Racing and
Sky Sports Mix are all provided as part of basic packages.
The Sky Sports network is managed by Jonathan Licht.
Job description: Full time senior sports journalist for Sky in London, UK.
Produce, create and co-ordinate digital editorial content across Sky Sports’ digital platforms and
the Sky Sports apps, with some focus on the sport of boxing.
Create and write high quality digital sports content of the highest standard, focusing on all of
Sky’s core sports away from football. This content must be delivered to deadline and includes
live-blogging, reporting, feature-writing and breaking news coverage.
Collaborate with multiple areas of Sky Sports, for eample. Sky Sports News, Sky Sports Content
teams to ensure we are producing aligned and consistent content including video and audio that
showcases the best of Sky Sports and supports specific business KPIs (key performance
indicator.)
Category: Sports/Fitness/Wellness, Creative Arts/Media
Requirements:- Professional sports journalism experience in the digital area.
-Experience of working in a quick-paced work environment with tight deadlines.
-Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a flair for producing different types of
copy.
-Passion for and knowledge of Boxing with experience of delivering for a major publisher.
-Knowledge of a range of sports. (e.g.) Formula One, Golf, Cricket and Sky’s other core sports.
-A strong work ethic and proactive attitude, with the ability to work in a team and support all
aspects of the business when necessary.
-NCTJ qualified or equivalent, with a working knowledge of media law.
Contract description:
Band: full time/casual
Contract type: 5 x Continuing and full time
Location: Office base Sky Sports, London, England
Only one job available for SKY Sports journalism job vacancies

6. Typical employment: With consumers
demanding a constant stream of high-quality
content, UK media companies are investing in
digital technologies and a workforce that
allows them to compete in this innovative and
fast-moving sector of the media industry. Due
to technology and media constantly evolving
freelance/remote jobs are more common to
find than full time office base jobs. Graduate
entry roles are often at assistant level and
include jobs such as runner, media
researcher, radio broadcast assistant and
editing assistant.
As with most other sectors, you can work for
larger media and internet companies in other
business areas for example, finance,
information technology (IT), marketing and
human resources (HR). You could also
explore digital marketing.
https://www.prospects.ac.uk/jobs-and-work-
experience/job-sectors/media-and-
internet/overview-of-the-uks-media-sector
Final Overview
Freelance Employment: A freelancer is
someone who doesn’t work for one company
full-time, but is hired by verious companies for
certain projects. For example, a magazine or
website will have a core team of editors who
hire freelance writers to write articles, or a TV
production crew might hire freelance
cameramen to work on one series of
programmes.
Advantages of freelancing: Choose your
work. Being a freelancer means you don’t
have a boss so you can say ‘no’ to jobs you
don’t want. You might also get to work at
home for specific projects (as long as your
work is delivered to the deadline most clients
won’t mind how and when you do it) not
having to work normal office hours.
-Better pay. Freelancers can negotiate their
own rates with the clients who hire them.
Companies are often prepared to pay
freelancers a better rate than their own staff
because they don’t have to pay for things like
sick leave as part of the contract. The more
experience you have then the more money
you can ask for.
https://www.brightknowledge.org/media/freela
ncing-in-the-media
Company Employment: Company
employment usually consists of working
40 hour weeks plus weekends
(depending on the media company
chosen) to create content for the
company clients and third party
associates. Unlike freelancing employee
work provides sick pay and holidays and
specific criterias on what content to create
for the client, you also have company
term and conditions that you would need
to follow working in media sectors.
Expectations:
-Long and unsociable hours
-Opportunities to work away from home or
abroad, such as when filming on location
or covering foreign affairs as a journalist
-An average graduate starting salary of
£31,500 at major employers (salary vary
on contract)
https://www.prospects.ac.uk/jobs-and-
work-experience/job-sectors/media-and-
internet/overview-of-the-uks-media-sector