Deputy Content Editor, ITV News

Our mission is to reach new audiences, on new platforms with new content. This is an exciting role which is initially centred around working with our streaming team, but with the opportunity beyond that to work across all ITV News output across newsgathering, programmes and digital. You will work with the streaming Content Editor to create content for the ITVX Rail and YouTube Channel. This role is key in driving growth on our streaming platforms via search engine optimisation and audience data.

You will work closely with all digital teams and the wider newsroom to inform and produce high-quality, original news with an emphasis on visual content. You will secure maximum impact for ITV News’ television material online – selling it as effectively as possible – and understand how to re‑purpose television material for streaming platforms. You will liaise closely with the news desks and key bureaus, editors and producers to ensure that our output reflects the best of our news gathering and analysis, commissioning content where appropriate.

You contribute to explainers, midform digital content and daily news delivery on streaming platforms, optimising content to get the best out of ITV News coverage. You will be the guardian of quality and tone, with responsibility for running the streaming desk alone at the beginning and end of the day. You will be the representative of ITV’s streaming output in some of the newsroom’s key editorial meetings as well as providing feedback to the entire company about how our digital operation has performed each day.

The successful candidate will have to create rollout plans for ITV News content, pitch midi and explainer ideas, edit toppers, long interviews and belts for streaming and create thumbnail and headline plans for stories. They will run a team overseeing live streaming of programmes, help plan further ahead, oversee the best quality work from producers and APs - working alongside the leadership. You will understand the fundamentals of audience engagement and data analytics. You will help lead and manage the distribution strategy of ITV News content across streaming platforms on a daily basis. You will be responsible for helping to grow our audience on these and other key strategic platforms. This role will be crucial in helping to grow our audience and ensure our content reaches the widest audience possible. Once the successful candidate is established in the role, they will have the opportunity and training to work across other aspects of the ITV News operation. This role is primarily newsroom based, but with some opportunity for hybrid working. It will contain shift work, including weekends.

Key Responsibilities

• Overseeing and managing the day-to-day content created by the ITV News streaming team.
• Attending main editorial meetings to shape the day's content.
• Helping drive and oversee content for our YouTube Channels and ITVX.
• Driving ITV News growth across those platforms.
• Working closely with the Content Editor, Head of Streaming and YouTube Channel Manager to make key editorial judgements across all our content.
• Helping generate original stories and ideas that appeal to audiences on streaming platforms.
• Supporting individual members of the team with their original content, ensuring it has maximum impact across all intended platforms.
• Being a conduit between our streaming team and the wider ITV News operation ensuring that the best of the day-to-day editorial agenda is reflected on our social output where appropriate.
• Liaising closely with the ITV News regions to ensure that the best of ITV New regional content is reflected in our streaming output where appropriate.
• Occasional responsibility to work in other areas of the ITV News operation in a similar capacity as and when required.
• Ensuring all ITV News streaming content upholds premium standards of news values, compliance, taste and decency.
• Ensure our social content reflects the diversity of our audience.
• Attending planning meetings to ensure original and diaried streaming content is well planned and executed.
• Support content editors in making key editorial judgements to provide an appropriate mix of stories for ITV News.
• When in newsgathering to work on planning stories for future coverage, and on occasion to work in the field on planned or breaking news.
• When working on programmes to take responsibility for packages and lives.
• When working on digital to play a key role in commissioning, creating and curating content.
• Making decisions on news values, legal issues, taste and decency.
• To on occasion act up to the role of content editor and act as a leader in an operational team.

These are the main requirements of the role and is not an exhaustive list of duties. It is intended to reflect the nature, range, and context of the work, which will change over time.

Key Requirements

• A keen knowledge, interest and understanding of ITV News content, platforms and values.
• A keen understanding of digital/multi-platform journalism.
• A keen knowledge of and interest in YouTube and Streaming strategy and content.
• A willingness to establish and develop oneself into a multi-platform, multi-skillset role.
• A creative and dynamic journalist with superb organisational skills.
• Excellent editorial judgement in line with the ITV News agenda.
• An ability to devise creative streaming treatments around key stories and issues.
• Ability to take major and complex mainstream news events and help deliver them to younger audiences.
• Scrupulous attention to detail when checking content for accuracy and style.
• An eye for identifying the best use of picture and sell for thumbnails.
• An excellent knowledge and understanding of the importance of diverse contributors in digital coverage.
• Great understanding of the ITN compliance manual.
• Awareness of Health and Safety requirements.
• Awareness and understanding of the financial implications of all decision making.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do at ITN. It’s vital that our workforce reflects the diversity of both our audience and the wider society in the UK, so we actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds and communities. Reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process will be offered, if required, due to a disability or health condition. We also recognise the importance of a good work life balance, so we do everything we can to accommodate flexible working, including part‑time and job shares for all our roles. Please just let us know in your application, or at any stage throughout the process, if this is something you want to explore.