talkSPORT – From World Cups & European Championships to the Premier League and the Champions League through to Test Match Cricket and World Class Boxing, the talkSPORT Network is at the heart of the world’s major sporting events.

Throw in our flagship programmes shows such as GameDay Exclusive, talkSPORT Breakfast, and Drivetime with Andy Goldstein & Darren Bent and we truly have a radio station to shout about.

talkSPORT isn’t just a radio station, though. Our website is viewed by millions of people a month, while we have over 1.4 million followers on Twitter, a Facebook page with 3 million likes and a YouTube channel with more than 750k subscribers.

The Apprenticeship

Being a talkSPORT Apprentice is a gateway to a great career into sports media and broadcasting. During your time with us you will earn a living wage, get full training, 4 days a week with talkSPORT doing the job and 1 day a week studying – including an NCTJ Diploma in Journalism – with all your course fees paid.

You will spend time with our audio, social media, and live shows; you’ll learn everything we can teach you about how to create content, tell and share stories, and attract, grow and capture an audience.

You will receive mentoring and coaching bespoke to you and delivered by some of the most experienced and talented staff in the sports media and broadcasting industry.

At the end of the programme you’ll graduate with a qualification in journalism and be well on your way to your chosen career. There is no better way to start your sports media and broadcasting career than an apprenticeship with us.

What We’re Looking For From You:

• You are passionate about sports journalism and creating content
• You turn new and imaginative ideas into reality and can help us create a fresh tone that will resonate with a more diverse audience
• You excite people by the way you tell stories
• You make the complex simple
• Creative mind and ability to think differently
• You are a good storyteller and know what makes a story interesting

More than anything you have a passion for learning and will grab this opportunity with both hands with the aspiration of being a creative force.

Day To Day You Will:

• Support producers with research and idea creation
• Run social media content for a social, ensuring clips and behind-the-scenes content is created across a variety of platforms
• Learn from the gallery crew on how to put shows together, supporting wherever needed
• Help with guests and talent to ensure output is best it can be

About News UK

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our news brands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS.

Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport.

Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Benefits & How To Apply

At News UK our people are our heartbeat — they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive.  Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like.  Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I  strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes.  We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme
• Physio/massage,
• Counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and a proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non-visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.

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