Reuters is looking to hire a deputy commodities editor in New York.
Job Duties:
- Responsible for translating customer needs and business strategies into action in a specialist news area.
- Deputizes for the regional editor at all levels from daily news coordination and editing to strategic engagement with the business.
- Breaks news, get scoops and produce agenda-setting news.
- Gives overall direction to news coverage and ensures the file meets customer needs and performance standards.
- Responsible for leading, motivating, and communicating with specialist correspondents across the Americas.
- Discovers and fosters talent, and promotes diversity.
- Drives multi-media and cross asset story telling through collaboration with news specialists from other parts of the file.
- Helps drive innovation, generates ideas of doing things smarter, and is willing to take calculated risks to improve news coverage.
- Works with the global bureau chiefs and/or senior Editor in Charge to ensure Editorial delivers on budget goals.
Qualifications
A bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Communications, Journalism, any Language/Literature, or related discipline followed by 10 years of progressive post-baccalaureate journalism experience.
Experience must include the following, which may be gained concurrently: 10 years of experience as a financial journalist with global experience; 7 years of experience reporting on commodities news that produces agenda-setting, market-moving news on complex futures and physical commodity markets; and 6 years of experience as an editor in charge of a team of at least 6 reporters and leading news coverage.
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