BBC Africa aims to make, explain and connect African and global stories by providing a unique insight into the main stories of the day in original formats.
The African service digital offer consists of websites, mobile sites and Social Media with all services providing multimedia content in text, video, interactive and audio for radio, online, TV, mobile and social media platforms.
The successful candidate will work as part of the new Visual Journalism team within the Africa Hub to generate fresh and original global stories.
Interactive Journalist Job Responsibilities
- To enhance and explain major news stories. To research, write, co-ordinate, manage and deliver to tight deadlines the production of high quality added value digital content including: information graphics, maps, graphical interactives, multimedia explainers, data journalism, data visualisation and other bespoke-format web content
- To generate ideas for data-driven stories and for how they might be developed and visualised for a variety of platforms
- To collaborate with reporters, editors, and the fellow team’s designer and developer to bring those stories to publication
- To participate and contribute to the wider Visual Journalism community, with the Central BBC News Visual Journalism team and the other VJ Languages teams
- To make the most of data and visual journalism tools and workflows to create content of high editorial and technical standard
- To be aware of relevant advances in web technology and how they can enhance the team’s output
Support fellow Africa Hub journalists to make the most of the available tools, to improve commissioning and workflows. - To represent the Africa Hub within the BBC Visual Journalism community
Qualifications for the Interactive Journalist Job
- Journalism experience –either online / radio / TV – ability to spot a story and make sound editorial judgements
- Ability to write in outstanding English as well as at least one of the key Africa Hub’s languages well enough to write stories / backgrounders as required
- Be able to write /create content for social media – awareness of different platforms – and what is relevant for each region
- Numerate – ability to understand spreadsheets and create them in Excel and Google Drive for stories / data sharing
- Knowledge of data sources and FOI procedure, if relevant, as it pertains to your region
- Be able to use basic design software (like Photoshop) to make composite images as well as create and update and create basic templates for static content for social media – whichever platforms are most relevant
- Good visual awareness and web production experience
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