Job Description

Are you a versatile multimedia journalist with excellent writing skills? Do you have a startup mindset? If so, you might be an ideal candidate to join the newly created Live Coverage team at Reuters. Its a small team of journalists drawn from text, photo, video, and non-traditional media backgrounds who gather Reuters journalism from around the world to create rolling news Live Pages on the biggest stories of the day.Some Live Pages will cover pre-planned events such as elections and major financial announcements. Others will be major breaking news stories or important topics such as climate change. All are fused into a multimedia feed of text, video, pictures, graphics, and social media in a mobile-first presentation. The new curation of Reuters journalism launched in March 2024 and is now expanding. Heres a link to the Live Page we did on the Russian presidential election:About the RoleAs a Live Pages Journalist you will:

• Bring ideas, energy and enthusiasm to a versatile cross-discipline breaking news team.
• Work on combining and/or creating text, video, photo and graphics posts, and editing as needed.
• Curate Reuters TV, pictures, text, graphics social media and reports from other major news outlets to report on the biggest global stories.
• Produce short, tightly written but accurate text posts under intense deadline pressure, and/or edit short news video clips; select pictures and edit their captions quickly and accurately.
• Be a resourceful researcher who on days when no Live Page is published can news plan and generate ideas to create posts for future Live Pages, drawing on Reuters immense archives and the collective expertise of its journalists around the world.

About YouYou would be a good candidate for the role of Live Pages Journalist if your background includes:

• Strong experience dealing with breaking news and an ability to ensure adherence to the

in a fast-moving situation. * Prepared to be scrambled for an assignment at short notice.

• You are a team player who is willing to share your skillset and acquire others.
• Be a multi-skilled journalist who can from day one fit into an integrated text and visuals setup.
• Have the flexibility to tell a story in the most appropriate medium or combinations of media.
• Publishing/direct injecting of breaking news experience is a significant advantage.
• You will have the ability to identify, source and direct inject digital social media content from X, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube posts from non-Reuters sources into a Reuters news feed.
• Functional proficiency with video editing software to cut and post standalone clips is a plus.
• Experience of web publishing software to be able - on day one - to publish video, text, graphics and social media content on a third party content management system, is another advantage.

Please note, the deadline for applications is May 19th at 11.59pm ESTWhats in it For YouAt 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.
• Perks: Work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and a team who provide unmatched, award-winning coverage of the worlds most important stories.

About ReutersReuters is the worlds 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#LI-CHDo 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, weve 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 worlds 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.AccessibilityAs 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.Protect yourself from fraudulent job postings to know more.More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on .

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