Sky Sports News Graduate Placement

This is an excellent opportunity for a Journalism Graduate to join Sky Sports New (12m FTC).

The Role:

• You will be based in our newsroom, where you’ll be exposed to all aspects of our news-gathering and production operations
• You’ll rotate around the different teams, learning key disciplines including planning and researching stories, writing articles for our website and other platforms and learning TV production skills
• Contribute ideas for developing stories
• Arrange interviews with sports men and women
• Work closely with Sky Sports’ family of channels to promote live sport
• Produce content for TV and online platforms
• Script-writing for TV and editing pictures from news stories and sports events
• Create eye-catching graphics
• Collaborate on innovative ways to deliver content our customers love
• Work on the channel’s acclaimed coverage of Transfer Deadline days

Are you the right candidate?

• You’ll have A passion for sport and journalism
• Knowledge of Sky Sports News and associated platforms
• An understanding of Sky as a business
• An understanding of modern news consumption habits
• Good communication skills
• A collaborative and inclusive approach to working
• Creativity and good writing skills
• Hold or be studying for a qualification from an accredited journalism course (eg NCTJ / BJTC)

Click here to apply for this role. This role is based in Isleworth and Sky are happy to discuss flexible working.