Commentary Producer, Reuters Commentary – Thomson Reuters (London)

Commentary Producer – Reuters Commentary

We envisage the successful candidate being based in London, with hybrid working available.

Highly organised? Want to use your project management and entrepreneurial skills to ensure the success of one of our most exciting news products? This might be the role for you.

The Reuters Commentary team is looking for a commentary producer with excellent project management skills, strong digital acumen, a writing background, and a passion for financial markets. This is an opportunity to help develop and expand the financial commentary platform of one of the world’s leading news organizations.

The commentary team seeks to produce thought-provoking, engaging, analytical columns that will influence capital allocators, traders, and other financial professionals operating around the globe. Our goal is to provide useful, original insights rooted in data and rigorous analysis. We maintain the highest standards for independence and accuracy, in keeping with Reuters’ TRUST principles.

About the Role

As a Commentary Producer for Reuters Commentary, you will:

Support the Editor-in-Charge with the management and development of the commentary platform.
Liaise with multiple Reuters departments to ensure that the production and distribution of commentary flows smoothly.
Provide editorial support to regular columnists and outside contributors.
Oversee data dashboards to monitor trends in audience engagement.
Assist with the sourcing and management of outside contributors.
Support columnists with the creation of charts, tables, and other graphics as well as newsletters.
Provide competitive analysis and conduct research on topics, trends, themes, asset classes, etc., where we’re seeking to expand coverage.
Help to organize events, videos, and podcasts with other Reuters departments and outside parties.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Commentary Producer for Reuters Commentary, if you have:

Exceptional project management skills, a strong work ethic, and a keen attention to detail.
Experience of working within a news or media organization.
A writing background and strong editing skills.
A solid understanding of data analysis and data visualization, or a desire to learn.
An entrepreneurial mindset and creative problem-solving skills.
An interest in markets, finance, and/or economics.

Please Note: Completed applications must be submitted by Sunday 10th November 2024. Early applications are encouraged.

What’s in it for you

At Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

Global Career: As a global company, we can offer a truly international career and progression opportunities
Learning & Development: On the job learning and coaching. We also have a dedicated training team focused on the continuous development of our journalists
Benefits: We offer competitive salary packages and market leading benefits including paid volunteering days
Perks: Work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and a team who provide unmatched, award-winning coverage of the world’s most important stories.

About Reuters

Reuters is the world’s largest multimedia news provider. Founded in 1851, it is committed to the Trust Principles of independence, integrity and freedom from bias. With unmatched coverage in over 16 languages, and reaching billions of people worldwide every day, Reuters provides trusted intelligence that powers humans and machines to make smart decisions. It supplies business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world’s media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers.

Reuters: The Real World in Real Time

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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