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Senior Journalist - India Digital Team

Job Requisition ID: 34696
Job Closing Date: 18 December 2025
London, GBR, W1A 1AA
| London, GBR, W1A 1AA
Job Details
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC News
LOCATION: London
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 42,800 - 58,500 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Join the BBC's India digital team as a Senior Journalist, shaping how audiences in India and worldwide experience the biggest stories. Based in London, you'll commission, edit, and publish compelling news and features with accuracy, flair, and context-helping deliver trusted journalism that resonates globally.
The News team needs people who are full of ideas, eager to brainstorm and contribute to our editorial meetings. You will have useful and creative approaches to the big stories in India, including the best formats and visual treatments.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
You'll be working daily on one of the world's most vibrant and diverse news agendas as the India digital team's representative in the UK. Working alongside the London-based Asia team, you'll bring the biggest stories from India to a global audience.
This role offers the chance to write breaking news, live posts and features. As a senior journalist you'll also lead editorial shifts, edit live pages, and collaborate with colleagues across the BBC.
The News team needs people who are full of ideas, eager to brainstorm and contribute to our editorial meetings. You will have useful and creative approaches to the big stories in India, including the best formats and visual treatments. It's an opportunity to innovate, broaden reach, and make a real impact on how millions engage with our journalism.
This role will largely work in the UK mornings to align with colleagues in Delhi, but weekend and night working may be required, as well as travel at short notice.
Please note that daily shifts will start either at 6am or 7am BST.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Commission, edit, and publish stories and videos for the BBC News website and social platforms
• Lead news shifts, setting the agenda and assigning stories to team members
• Shape coverage by identifying priorities and adding global context to local stories
• Write and edit breaking news, live pages, and high-impact features
• Monitor social media and audience data to inform storytelling and boost reach
• Meet tight deadlines while maintaining the highest editorial standards across all output
• Collaborate with other BBC teams to share content and avoid

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• At least seven years' experience editing and publishing for a major news outlet
• Excellent knowledge of Indian news, history and politics
• A high standard of editorial judgment and production skills, based on substantial experience of editing and writing news stories, features and video scripts
• Ability to ensure the highest standards of subbing and error-free output
• Extensive experience of copy editing and rewriting news and features in text
• Strong understanding of social media formats, and analysing audience data to inform editorial strategy

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Experience of editing video scripts and producing videos
• Familiarity with global news trends and digital audience behaviour
• Experience collaborating across international teams
• Interest in exploring innovative storytelling formats for digital and social platforms
• Knowledge of Indian languages

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
For any general queries, please contact:
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
Information at a Glance
This is your BBC
At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.
Life at BBC
Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.
Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.
You belong
We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.
Disability confident
We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:
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