Reuters seeks a chief correspondent in Brazil

Reuters is seeking an experienced journalist to serve as Chief Correspondent in Brazil, leading our enterprise reporting efforts and driving coverage of this year’s pivotal presidential election.

The successful candidate will work with colleagues in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília to develop ambitious, deeply-reported stories exploring the health of the world’s fourth-largest democracy, investigating corruption and corporate malfeasance, and building on the bureau’s award-winning coverage of threats to the Amazon rainforest.

As Chief Correspondent in Brazil, you will:

Help to define and deliver on the bureau’s enterprise priorities
Develop key sources to break news on strategic coverage areas
Serve as deputy in the bureau, running the Brazil file when the bureau chief is out
Mentor colleagues and develop their reporting initiatives into high-impact stories
Collaborate with correspondents across Latin America on regional coverage

The successful candidate will likely have:

A record of agenda-setting enterprise journalism
Talent for working with exclusive sources, documents and data
Examples of effective teamwork in breaking news environments
Excellent news judgment and outstanding English writing skills
At least five years of journalism experience
A knack for storytelling across different media platforms
Strong Portuguese

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.