About the Organization
The British Broadcasting Corporation is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom founded in 1922, based at Broadcasting House in London.
It is the world’s oldest national broadcaster, and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, employing over 22,000 staff in total.
Job Purpose
- Intern working alongside one of the many BBC News teams in the BBC’s Delhi bureau.
Key responsibilities and accountabilities
- Generate ideas and stories; contribute to the creative treatment of an item or programme; provide clear treatments and proposals, ensuring consistency of content, quality and style.
- Carry out in-depth background/subject research for all media, ensuring complete accuracy and critically evaluating the relevance and suitability of information
- Responsible for the simple operation of a variety of analogue and digital radio and TV equipment, etc.
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- To work closely with the production team before, during and after the output production.
- Exercise editorial judgment in developing story ideas and producing accurate and impartial journalism.
- Write scripts, produce packages, translate and compile content for the website, TV and podcast as well as doing news stories for the BBC across platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter etc.
- Manage a range of research projects and resources.
- Identify and secure suitable guests and contributors, and brief them on arrival as requested.
- Delivering to tight deadlines while maintaining high editorial standards.
- At all times to carry out duties in accordance with the BBC health and safety policy.
Knowledge, skills, training and experience
- Must be over the age of 18.
- Fluent in English and able to communicate effectively. Knowledge of another Indian language (Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil) is desirable.
- Fluent knowledge of one of the Indian languages is mandatory if applying to one of the BBC Indian Language service teams
- Any exposure to media production techniques or content creation for Digital, Social and Video platforms is preferable.
- Good writing skills
Selection:
- Shortlisted students will be contacted for an online or in-person interview with the editors or a senior team member.
How to Apply:
- The documents listed in points 1 and 2 should be emailed in pdf format to bbcindiainternships@bbc.co.uk with the subject Application for Internship.
- The candidate should submit their updated CV.
- Also, they should explain in approximately 300 words why they are interested in doing this internship with the BBC, which department or service they are interested in and why they should be selected.
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