Video Journalist

Want to do the best work of your life? Make your mark at Europe’s leading entertainment brand. Our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work – a place where you can be yourself and let your skills shine.

• Create engaging digital video that works for each of our different platforms and social media channels
• Pitch and produce creative treatments, angles and ideas for stories Sky News is covering or you think should be covering
• Generate and pitch your own original video and story ideas to film, edit and front
• Collaborate with the AEs to create striking thumbnails and headlines to help sell our video content particularly on our Sky News app and YouTube

• Have excellent news judgement and attention to detail
• Understand what video treatments and sells work across our different platforms from headlines to thumbnails to the opening shot of a video
• Editorial and technical know-how with video editing tools – proficient in Adobe, Final Cut, Avid or Quantel
• Have ‘best practice’ experience and legal knowledge to critique and sign-off sensitive video journalism
• Creativity and a sense of ‘now’
• Have experience of working in a newsroom and a recognised qualification in journalism and media law

• Access to NOW, for the TV you love all in one place
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband

Sky News is a world-class news service with a spirit of innovation and a fresh approach to story-telling. Our aim is to be the best and most trusted place for news, reflecting the diversity of our audience. Made by people who dare to challenge. Made for people who want clarity in an uncertain world.