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Bloomberg seeks emerging markets reporter in Mexico City

The energy of a newsroom. The pace of a trading floor. The buzz of a recent tech breakthrough. We work hard, and we work fast – while keeping up the quality and accuracy we’re known for. It’s what keeps us inventing and reinventing, all the time. “Our culture is wide open, just like our spaces.” We bring out the best in each other. And through our countless volunteer projects, we help bring out the best in the communities around us, too. You can do amazing work here. Work you couldn’t do anywhere else. It’s up to you to make it happen.

You will join Bloomberg as an Emerging Markets Reporter in our Mexico City office to cover the local stock market and some of the country’s biggest companies. Your main focus will be to break news on one of the bureau’s most important beats and write agenda-setting stories by interviewing business executives, bankers and investors while working under real-time deadline pressure.

We’ll trust you to:

  • Break news and write enterprise stories under deadline pressure
  • Cover breaking news with uncanny speed and accuracy
  • Write for a range of platforms
  • Be a team player

You’ll need to have:

  • A bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
  • Previous financial markets or business journalism experience
  • The ability to write quickly and concisely in English under deadline pressure
  • Experience of working in a real-time news environment is desirable
  • Experience covering corporate finance and the stock market
  • Fluency in Spanish and English

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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