Central News Reader

Your role: The creation of the Onic News Hub represents a strategic shift toward broadcast specialisation. As an Onic Hub Journalist, you are at the operational heart of Onic’s networked news strategy. Your primary focus is on elite-level content curation, scripting, and on-air delivery.

Operating from our centralised hub, you will compile, voice, and distribute high-quality, bespoke news and sports bulletins for our six local stations. You will seamlessly blend national and international wire copy with hyper-local audio and scripts sent in by our "on-the-ground" local journalists. This role requires a fast-paced mind and an exceptional broadcast voice, ensuring every station bulletin sounds authoritative, distinct, and deeply connected to its audience.

Day to day you will:

Bulletin Curation & Production:

• Compile hourly and half hourly news and sport bulletins tailored specifically to each of the six Onic brands, ensuring the right balance of local, national, and international stories.

• Monitor and utilise national and international news wires (including the Bauer news syndicate) to script accurate, engaging, and concise copy for shared broadcast.

• Receive, edit, and seamlessly integrate audio assets, soundbites, and local copy provided by our network of Multi-Media Local Journalists stationed across the country.

Elite On-Air Delivery:

• Adapt your voice delivery to suit each brand's distinct tone when reading bulletins for multiple stations, adhering to brand-specific style guides.

• Ensure all station intros, outros, and station-specific sweepers are flawlessly executed to maintain the local identity and listener trust of each individual brand.

Editorial Standards & Compliance:

• React swiftly to breaking national and international news, ensuring all bulletins are updated dynamically and accurately.

• Ensure all copy generated within the Hub adheres strictly to media law (defamation, contempt) and the Coimisiún na Meán (CNaM) Codes of Fairness, Objectivity, and Impartiality.

• Work closely with and seek direction from the Group Head of News & Sport to maintain consistent editorial policies and standardise best practices across all Onic news and sport output.

Operational Excellence:

• Manage the technical distribution of networked content, ensuring the correct audio reaches the correct split-link playout systems precisely on time.

• Collaborate with the wider Hub team and freelance panel to ensure a smooth handover of live copy and audio during shift changes, weekends, and peak periods.

What we're looking for from you:

• Broadcast & Journalism Experience: A degree in journalism or media, with extensive experience in a fast-paced radio newsroom environment.

• Exceptional Voice & Delivery: A highly versatile, authoritative, and engaging broadcast voice. (Applicants must provide an audio showreel demonstrating different bulletin reading styles).

• Fast-Paced Curation: A proven ability to synthesize large amounts of information from wire services and local reporters into punchy, accurate radio copy under strict hourly deadlines.

• Technical Mastery: Highly proficient in the News Boss software system, audio editing software, and network playout/distribution systems.

• Brand Agility: A deep understanding of Onic's different station demographics and the ability to instantly switch gears between a young urban audience and a mature regional audience.

• Shift Flexibility: Willingness to work a structured roster that includes early mornings and evenings.

We are Onic: Every day our audiences welcome us into their lives and allow us to share their day through. Individually and collectively in every setting and at any time of the day we are their trusted companion. Their trust allows us to connect in a deep and meaningful way across our audio, digital and online platforms. The fusion of the strength of our heritage and our cutting edge innovation enables us to deliver what our communities want, when they want it. We’re about connecting and cultivating communities of loyal listeners, online and on-air. With a monthly media footprint of over 10 million across on air and digital we have real broadcast coverage across Ireland.  A national network that is proudly local and boldly vocal about what makes you – and us – unique. We know when to turn up the volume and when to dial it back. We’re all about celebrating local culture  while staying tuned in to global trends. Our fresh, inclusive outlook means we can meet the needs of our local yet diverse communities while still connecting with a savvy, worldly audience. For more check out Onic.ie

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.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.

At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• ‘Bikes for Work’ ’ scheme

• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks

• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities

• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%

• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments due to a disability or health condition at any stage of your application or interview, please let us know. You can contact us at [email protected] to discuss how we can support you to perform at your best.