Bloomberg News is looking for an editor to join the Global Business team in Zurich. It’s a key role within our EMEA group covering industries ranging from car making to consumer and luxury goods, health care and pharmaceuticals. Switzerland, home to Roche, Novartis, Nestle, Rolex and Richemont, is a European hub for many of these sectors.
The Global Business editor in Zurich will help to spearhead coverage of these and other European companies and industries, working with reporters in the Swiss bureaus and across the region. It’s a fast-paced and high-profile role that will allow the right person to drive coverage and shape the team’s daily news agenda in real time while helping to conceive and execute high-profile enterprise.
We’ll trust you to:
- Write and edit quickly under deadline pressure
- Deliver a clean and concise first take on the day’s most important Swiss and European corporate stories
- Coordinate coverage among regions and teams in the all-important early-morning hours
- Alert and launch reporters on breaking news
- Strategize with reporters and team leaders on how to break news
- Work with reporters to generate strong enterprise ideas
- Think creatively about the best way to present stories
You’ll need to have:
- Excellent writing and editing skills
- An unerring commitment to accuracy
- Experience covering or editing news about Swiss or European companies
- The ability to make smart coverage decisions quickly and independently
- Top-notch organizational skills
- A collaborative approach to editing
To apply, go here.
Chris RoushChris 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.