Sky News Journalism Apprenticeship
SKY PLC
Middlesex (TW7 5QD)
Closes in 16 days (Monday 8 December 2025)
Posted on 19 November 2025
Contents
Summary
As a Sky News Apprentice, you’ll be right at the centre of it. You’ll learn how to spot a story, how to tell it, and how to get it out to the world - fast. You’ll work with award-winning journalists, producers, and camera crews, and you’ll get hands-on experience in one of the most advanced newsrooms in Europe.
- Wage
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£27,010 a year
- Training course
- Journalist (level 5)
- Hours
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Office days: This role requires you to work in the office Monday - Friday and further through the programme, you may be required to work a few weekends.
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 7 September 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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2
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
- Spend your first five months at college working towards your Level 5 Journalist Apprenticeship, learning the essentials: writing, media law, ethics, and how to structure a great story
- Join the Sky News team, based in our newsroom in Osterley, West London
- Learn how news is planned, gathered, produced and published across all platforms - from our Sky News app to TikTok, Instagram, our podcasts and TV
- Get involved in everything from researching breaking news and pitching ideas, to helping with live broadcasts and editing video for digital
- As you grow in confidence, you’ll start to pitch, research and produce your own stories for Sky News platforms
Where you'll work
Grant Way
Isleworth
Middlesex
TW7 5QD
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
Spend your first five months at college working towards your Level 5 Journalist Apprenticeship, learning the essentials: writing, media law, ethics, and how to structure a great story.
Course modules: Essential Journalism, E-portfolio, Essential Media Law, Broadcast Regulation, Shorthand, Court Reporting, Public Affairs, Journalism for a Digital Audience.
Note: The first five months are spent in college based in Queen St in the City of London.
More training information
Training Provider: PA Media Academy (sister company to PA Media - formerly Press Association) - a leading centre for journalism, communications, media and content training. They teach news and news-based communications, writing and editing, and digital storytelling across multiple platforms. In an age of AI, these skills have never mattered more.
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
- A passion for current affairs
- A curiosity about the world
- Confident sharing ideas
- confident sharing opinions
- Great at spotting trends
- A strong communicator
- Ready to learn
- Someone up for travelling
- working fast-paced
Other requirements
For legal reasons, you’ll be 18 or above by September 2026. You won’t have completed a qualification or degree in the subject you are applying to. You’ll have completed any current education by September 2026 and don’t plan to be undertaking any education throughout the duration of the apprenticeship. You’ll have resided in the UK or Republic of Ireland for three years by September 2026. If you are on a time limited visa, your visa will not expire at any point during the apprenticeship programme.
About this employer
Sky Plc is a British-based pan-European satellite broadcasting, on-demand Internet streaming media, broadband and telephone services company
https://www.skygroup.sky/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Our fantastic range of benefits really are something special, here are our highlights: free Sky Q (for the TV you love all in one place), a generous pension, 25 days paid annual leave, discounted mobile and broadband and private health care.
After this apprenticeship
Journalist upon successful completion of the apprenticeship.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE PRESS ASSOCIATION LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000001355.
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Closes in 16 days (Monday 8 December 2025)
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