Assistant Producer – TalkTV (London)

Assistant Producer, 12 Month FTC

Your Role: TalkTV is looking for a talented Assistant Producer with a passion for news and current affairs to join our team. You will be part of the editorial team for the daily news and discussion, generating original ideas and bringing in exclusive content.

Day to day you will:

Pitching story ideas to the team, suggesting guests or topics from the news and social media
Selecting and editing content
Booking guests and writing briefs
Working with high profile talent and establish contacts with some of the UK’s best-known commentators and broadcasters
Supporting Producers
Writing high quality scripts

What we’re looking for from you:

A strong understanding and passion for current affairs
A great eye for a good news story
Knowledge of editing and newsroom software – particularly iNEWS
The ability to remain calm under the pressure of daily deadlines and producing live TV
Flexibility as this role will require shift work, sometimes unsocial hours

TalkTV delivers a bold voice in current affairs, debate and opinion available on linear TV, online and on the TalkTV mobile app. Piers Morgan Uncensored, our multi award-winning prime time show, is an hour of lively debates and world class interviews, presented by Piers Morgan. PMU continually sets the global news agenda and its YouTube currently looks to be the fastest growing page in UK broadcasting, with 23 million (and counting) having watched Piers’ Cristiano Ronaldo scoop alone. Talk Today is TalkTV’s new breakfast TV show and is a dynamic mix of news and views, broadcast daily from 6am to 9.30am from state-of-the-art TV studios in The News Building at London Bridge. Broadcaster Jeremy Kyle joins TV presenter & columnist Nicola Thorp to anchor Monday to Thursday to discuss the issues that really matter to the nation. Then Julia Hartley-Brewer, whose top-drawer coverage of current affairs and politics is delivered with her trademark no-nonsense approach. Vanessa Feltz guides you through the big stories of the day from the world of politics, current affairs and showbiz.Rosanna Lockwood brings a wealth of journalistic experience to get inside the stories of the day with expert analysis and lively debate. Join a panel of opinionated famous faces to debate the hot topics everybody’s talking about on TheTalk. Mike Graham tears his way through the morning newspapers and brings a much needed dose of common sense to the day’s big stories. Drawing together world-class talent across News UK, TalkTV is available live or on-demand 24/7, on Sky Channel 522,Sky Glass Channel 508, Virgin Media Channel 606, Free view Channel 237 and Free sat Channel 217 as well as on DAB+, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Samsung TV Plus, YouTube, the Talk.TV website and TalkTV iOS and Android apps.

We are News Broadcasting: Driving digital innovation, our people create award-winning national and local radio and podcasts which are must-listens for millions across the UK, Ireland and beyond. Life sounds good with Virgin Radio – home to Chris Evans at Breakfast and Graham Norton at the weekend. talkSPORT, the world’s biggest sports radio station, delivers the very best live sport and analysis and is truly powered by its millions of fans. Launched in June 2020 Times Radio brings together the peerless journalistic expertise of The Times and The Sunday Times with world-class broadcast talent including John Pienaar, Aasmah Mir and Michael Portillo. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a prime time evening show.

Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat – they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions
Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes
‘Bikes for Work’ scheme
Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.