Company Overview: An iconic, dynamic storyteller with a rich heritage and a global audience in the millions, The Sun is now focusing on an exciting, video-focused strategy to engage new audiences, putting video at the heart of The Sun’s journalism.
Sun Originals is a brand new video production studio making premium series for The Sun, Sun Sport and Fabulous brands. Creating, developing and producing a slate of brand new original shows, the team are helping The Sun reach its next generation of viewers.
Role Overview
As an Assistant Producer you will help create compelling content that informs and engages audiences. You will be part of the team producing content, working with the Producer to cast, film and produce high quality video for various channels and platforms.
Key responsibilities
We are looking for a versatile, creative and driven team Assistant Producer to help make videos for our Sports YouTube channel.
The role entails casting, location finding, dealing with contributors and on-screen talent, as well as working on location or in a studio with a Producer across a range of sports-related formats for YouTube and other platforms.
Experience of working on original sports-related content for YouTube or other digital platforms is essential and some second camera filming experience would be desirable.
Length of service: Three months
Start date: 2/12/2025
Why Join Us:
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Be Part of a Digital Transformation: This is your chance to be a key player in a historic brand’s digital pivot, shaping the future of video content in the newsroom.
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Innovative Environment: Work in a forward-thinking environment where creativity and experimentation are encouraged, and where your insights will help drive our digital video strategy.
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Collaborative Team: Join a passionate, talented team of Producers, editors, and creatives who are committed to delivering high-quality video content that engages, informs, and inspires.
News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.
Life at News
Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.
We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on [email protected].