Job Description

Senior Correspondent, Global News Monitoring - Reuters

We envisage the successful candidate being based in Barcelona, Spain.

Want to break some of the most important global news stories for one of the world's most trusted news brands? This might be the job for you.

Reuters is looking for experienced reporters to join our growing Global News Monitoring (GNM) team in Barcelona.

The Global News Monitoring team (GNM), is one of the most important news hubs within Reuters. Operating on a 24/7 cycle and working at speed, this global breaking news team covers some of the biggest stories taking place across the world. The team monitors social media, company newswires, competition news websites and several other sources to ensure that Reuters stays competitive globally. The team helps to consolidate Reuters’ social-media monitoring efforts by staying on top of social media, company blogs and any other source from which news originates.

A normal day at GNM involves covering financial and companies’ news, monitoring X for breaking news and covering earthquakes and other general news. The team doubles down as a breaking news hub, covering everything from a watchdog warning of missile strikes near nuclear power plants in Ukraine, to cyberattacks, accidents, vehicle recalls, billion-dollar company mergers, and other general, financial and commodities news.

The team also covers general and political news monitoring for several hubs, including the US-Canada, UK, South Asia, and Africa hubs, during overnight hours (for the respective bureaus) and weekends. It also handles US/UK corporate news coverage during overnight hours on weekdays and throughout weekends.

About The Role

As Senior Correspondent on the Global News Monitoring Team, you will:

• Use your sharp news judgement, strong writing skills, and the ability to tackle everything from corporate earnings stories to natural disasters and acts of terrorism.
• Multitask and juggle monitoring social media, news wires, websites, and blogs, breaking news and snips on important global stories.
• Remain calm under pressure and meet the team’s accuracy and speed targets.
• Communicate and interact effectively with reporters, editors, media relations personnel and other stakeholders across the world.
• Have the ability and willingness to actively coach and mentor new staff.
  
  

About You

You're a fit for the role of Senior Correspondent on the Global News Monitoring Team if you have:

• Strong news judgment and excellent writing skills in English.
• Strong snapping skills or experience in a snapping/breaking news role.
• Proficiency in a major European language will be an advantage (please specify this on your application).
• A willingness to work late shifts and if necessary, handle weekend shifts.
• A willingness to work out of the office at least 4 days in a 5-day work week.
  
  

Please Note: Completed applications must be submitted by 23:59 on Sunday 9th February 2025. 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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