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The BBC World Service has been undergoing a transformation to ensure that the best World Service content travels further and makes greater impact. As such we have refocused our strategy to build reach and engagement on owned and operated platforms, including TV, and on digital. We have also been changing the way that we operate. World Service Languages Channels brings together our TV and streaming offers. At the core of this are BBC Arabic and BBC Persian, which together have a weekly audience of over 42 million, some of the largest BBC global audiences.
As part of our commitment to clarity and truth, and in alignment with the missions of BBC News and BBC World Service, we aim to enhance transparency in our storytelling. Our goal is to establish BBC Arabic and BBC Persian as world leaders in transparent journalism. Therefore, we have built on the strong verification skills in both channels and created specialist teams in OSINT skills to expand and enhance our capabilities. The teams are embedded within the channels, helping to cultivate these abilities more broadly. The focus is on responding to breaking stories within the first 48 hours and contributing to more in-depth work when commissioned with other teams. The roles have involved regular live presentations and writing for digital requiring first-class proficiency in both Arabic and English for the Arabic output.
We are looking for an experienced and inspiring Assistant Editor to lead our transparency journalism.
Reporting to the Senior News Editor, Evolution and Streaming, the successful candidate will help shape and implement our strategy for making our forensics journalism more impactful and will lead on promoting best practices of transparency journalism across Languages Channels.
