Junior Journalist Apprenticeship - Level 5 - Truro
BBC Public Service
Truro (TR1 1AU)
Closes in 7 days (Thursday 13 November 2025)
Posted on 6 November 2025
Contents
Summary
Passionate about storytelling? Join the BBC as a Junior Journalist apprentice. Gain hands-on experience while earning the NCTJ Diploma and a Level 5 qualification. Ideal for school leavers, this is your chance to train with the world’s leading public service broadcaster.
- Wage
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£22,950 a year
- Training course
- Journalist (level 5)
- Hours
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24 months - 35 hours per week.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 8 September 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
As a Junior Journalist Apprentice, this is brilliant opportunity to learn, grow, and contribute – you will:
Work alongside news and current affairs teams to develop your journalistic skills, creating and delivering quality content for the BBC.- Get involved with all newsroom activities, such as sourcing and securing compelling contributors or guests, writing briefs for your team, or shooting and editing films.
- Find and create stories for diverse audiences - including coming up with new ideas, carrying out in-depth research and assisting with interviews.
- Learn from and work with experts in the field at the largest public service broadcaster in the world.
Where you'll work
Truro
TR1 1AU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE PRESS ASSOCIATION LIMITED
Training course
Journalist (level 5)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Undertake research before reporting to ensure that journalistic content/material published or broadcast is accurate, impartial, balanced, engages the audience and is verifiable with industry standard use of English.
- Identify, select, and verify multiple sources of information, including people, reports, data and social media, cross-checking and corroborating when necessary.
- Take accurate, relevant notes when and where needed, use shorthand where required by your employer.
- Assess the strengths/weaknesses of available platforms and where and when journalistic content is likely to work best.
- Assess and produce journalistic content in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements; ethical issues and organisational specifications, alerting senior managers when necessary.
- Make decisions and judgements at speed and when under pressure, on the way stories are researched and presented, aiming to lead when breaking news.
- Find and use contacts to create journalistic content and exclusive stories which meet the needs of the target audience. Verify information from contacts and critically review its short and long-term implications.
- Use audience analytics to evaluate the success of the journalistic content and how that can inform future decision-making.
- Monitor relevant social media on a systematic basis. Proactively seek, verify and curate sources of user-generated content that will help improve targeted content, grow the audience and the depth of engagement.
- Produce journalistic content using language which resonates with the audience as measured by audience analytics, social media interaction and reach or other internal "tools" used by employers to understand audience sentiment.
- Produce journalistic content in multimedia combinations as required which "draw in" the viewer/listener/user to tell the complete story.
- Report live to the audience from the scene of an event using remote technologies.
- Publish journalistic content, using all available tools to enhance the user experience.
- Undertake different types of interviews to extract information, identifying and selecting the right interviewing technique to suit the interviewee and seeking to make a connection with the subject.
- Evaluate answers from interviewees to inform further questioning, probing for detail and inconsistencies in replies given. If needed, identify other people to speak to.
- Check and evaluate own work in relation to industry standards, adhering to employer guidelines. Ensure it is of a quality to maintain the organisation's reputation in the industry.
- Seek constructive feedback from relevant people about your performance; taking action as required.
- Consider the impact of equality and diversity practices on individuals and groups and ensure those practices are inclusive.
- Locate, clean and interrogate datasets to inform content generation.
- Undertake research before reporting to ensure that journalistic content/material published or broadcast is accurate, impartial, balanced, engages the audience and is verifiable with industry standard use of English.
- Identify, select, and verify multiple sources of information, including people, reports, data and social media, cross-checking and corroborating when necessary.
- Take accurate, relevant notes when and where needed, use shorthand where required by your employer.
- Assess the strengths/weaknesses of available platforms and where and when journalistic content is likely to work best.
- Assess and produce journalistic content in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements; ethical issues and organisational specifications, alerting senior managers when necessary.
- Make decisions and judgements at speed and when under pressure, on the way stories are researched and presented, aiming to lead when breaking news.
- Find and use contacts to create journalistic content and exclusive stories which meet the needs of the target audience. Verify information from contacts and critically review its short and long-term implications.
- Use audience analytics to evaluate the success of the journalistic content and how that can inform future decision-making.
- Monitor relevant social media on a systematic basis. Proactively seek, verify and curate sources of user-generated content that will help improve targeted content, grow the audience and the depth of engagement.
- Produce journalistic content using language which resonates with the audience as measured by audience analytics, social media interaction and reach or other internal "tools" used by employers to understand audience sentiment.
- Produce journalistic content in multimedia combinations as required which "draw in" the viewer/listener/user to tell the complete story.
- Report live to the audience from the scene of an event using remote technologies.
- Publish journalistic content, using all available tools to enhance the user experience.
- Undertake different types of interviews to extract information, identifying and selecting the right interviewing technique to suit the interviewee and seeking to make a connection with the subject.
- Evaluate answers from interviewees to inform further questioning, probing for detail and inconsistencies in replies given. If needed, identify other people to speak to.
- Check and evaluate own work in relation to industry standards, adhering to employer guidelines. Ensure it is of a quality to maintain the organisation's reputation in the industry.
- Seek constructive feedback from relevant people about your performance; taking action as required.
- Consider the impact of equality and diversity practices on individuals and groups and ensure those practices are inclusive.
- Locate, clean and interrogate datasets to inform content generation.
Training schedule
You’ll study for an industry-recognised apprenticeship qualification, learning both on and off-the-job.
This means as an apprentice (JRA26), you will follow the Level 5 Journalist Apprenticeship standard (curriculum) and work towards an industry-recognised qualification, the NCTJ Diploma in Journalism. This is assessed through exams and coursework.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
Intensely curious about people and about what is going on in the world. Brimming with creative ideas and imaginative ways to tell stories. Passionate about producing content in news and current affairs across TV, audio, online and social media. Excited by writing. Flexible, motivated and have an adaptable approach to the fast pace of a newsroom.
About this employer
We are a leading early careers employer and hire more than 250 apprentices each year. We are committed to skills and talent development both inside and outside the BBC and, as one of the world’s most creative and technologically-advanced organisations for the last 100 years, a career at the BBC means learning from the best. We want people who show potential to join us at the BBC. Don’t worry if you don’t have extensive experience, it’s your passion and values we are interested in.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
This is a fixed-term apprenticeship - your contract lasts for the duration of the scheme.
Once completed, you’ll be supported with career development, employability training, and networking opportunities to help you take your next step - whether that’s at the BBC or elsewhere in the industry.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE PRESS ASSOCIATION LIMITED
earlycareersrecruitment@bbc.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000349844.
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Closes in 7 days (Thursday 13 November 2025)
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