Bloomberg seeks a Saudi Arabia reporter

Bloomberg’s Middle East News team is fast and innovative, and our mission is to deliver news to readers as quickly as possible, enabling our audience to stay fully informed when making decisions. We are seeking a reporter with strong news judgment and a deep knowledge of Middle East economies and companies to work in our Riyadh office. You will cover news across corporates, finance, government and economy, sending out real-time headlines and stories that capture the most important developments. The successful candidate will have regional responsibilities and work alongside teams across the region.

We’ll trust you to:

Demonstrate exceptional news judgement
Be a collaborative reporter
Write clear spot news stories and send out real-time headlines
Work effectively to organize daily news flows
Demonstrate deep interest in regional companies, economies, stock markets and finance
Unearth news from traditional and new-media sources
Stay on top of major news stories and trends
Collaborate with Bloomberg reporters and editors across EMEA and the world

You’ll need to have:

A bachelor’s degree
Proven writing skills
Fluency in English and Arabic
Ability to understand complex financial statements in Arabic and turn them into short, concise stories that cut through jargon
Flexibility with work hours and assignments

We’d love to see:

Fluency in other regional languages

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.