Sky News is looking for freelancers with the relevant experience to work as a News Editor on our busy Home News desk. The role involves working on the multi-platform intake desk and sometimes on the planning desk. The News Editor works with the Senior News Editor, the Digital news editor and on their own helping to drive the news agenda and ensure delivery of the very best content to all platforms by harnessing our newsgathering and technological resources.

We are looking for freelancers with lots of experience as a multi-media news journalist, strong editorial judgement, the ability to chase a story, a desire to beat the opposition and a track record and commitment to high quality journalism and production. We are looking for people with plenty of creative ideas and the enthusiasm to find original stories and ways of telling them on television and across our digital platforms

Our News Editors help drive the news agenda and ensure delivery of the very best content to all platforms by harnessing our newsgathering and technological resources. It's a role for experienced multi-media news journalists with strong editorial judgement and a commitment to high quality journalism and production.
As a Freelance News Editor you will work primarily on the News Desk (sometimes in support of a Senior News Editor), and on occasion on the Planning Desk and out on the road.

Key responsibilities
• Supporting Senior News Editors in running hour by hour home news coverage throughout the UK.
• On other occasions, running the News Desk alone and making key decisions about news stories and deployment.
• Supporting coverage in the field either from the desk or working alongside crews and Correspondents to deliver first class coverage for all platforms from location.
• Sometimes working in Planning to lead the setting-up of the next day's news agenda and planned coverage.
• At all times, playing a key liaison role in ensuring newsroom operations are joined up and collaborative across all platforms.

Candidate criteria - key requirements of the role

• Experience of a high level and high pressure multi-media journalistic environment having contributed content to more than one platform.
• Excellent news judgement and the confidence to plan in advance and organise and deliver your plans and ideas on the day
• Evidence of creative aptitude and enthusiasm - we want original ideas or ways of telling stories on television and digital platforms
• Multi Skilling - ability to understand and identify technology to help the storytelling and to assign and use it on the road.
• Curiosity and passion for ideas and news. A voracious drive to beat the opposition and seek out new and original ways to cover news

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