Job Title:

North of England Correspondent

Company Info

Daybreak is the morning breakfast show broadcast on ITV1 which airs from 6.00am to 9.25am. A mixture of current affairs, entertainment news, consumer issues and exclusive interviews with people from the day’s current news.

Department:

News

Status:

Staff or FT contract or Freelance or Placement

Permanent

Based at:

London, but will be expected to travel extensively when needed

Reports to:

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Head of News

Accountabilities and responsibilities:

• News gathering
• Coverage of the North of England
• React quickly and appropriately to major news stories
• Generate story ideas on a daily and weekly basis
• Long term planning as well as reacting quickly to emerging stories
• Working as a team player with your fellow Correspondents
• Develop contacts across the board from politics to lifestyle
• Contribute to the Website with a daily blog
• Develop relationships with Producers, Editors and Futures department

Person Specification:

Skills

Knowledge

Experience

relevant to the job either essential or desired.

• Experienced TV journalist
• Live on-screen television experience
• Ability to self-edit and self-shoot
• Solid and proven journalistic skills
• Self-starter able to generate story ideas and maintain strong contacts in a large an demanding news patch
• Ability to generate a list of story prospects daily, as well as long term, planning ideas
• Desire and ability to provide Daybreak with exclusives and pursue story ideas independently
• Ability to self-produce news and feature items directing camera crews on lives and for VTs
  
  
• the role demands working irregular and anti-social working hours to produce quality VTs and authoritative live broadcasts
• It's vital to establish and maintain good links with regional newsrooms and liaise with them regularly with regards to sharing material/contacts etc