Reuters seeks a UK finance correspondent

Reuters are seeking a highly-motivated Correspondent to join the UK Finance team. This high-profile role will see you deliver best-in-class coverage of one of the world’s leading financial hubs, from breaking the most significant news stories to agenda-setting analysis and investigative reporting.

This is an opportunity to join an award-winning group of reporters and editors covering the top developments across global finance at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions that could reshape the world’s economies. You will be part of the broader finance coverage while also carving out an area of expertise focusing on securities trading and regulation.

You will have a knack for dissecting complex concepts and presenting them in a clear and accessible fashion, including covering key regulation that is shaping markets and financial firms.

You will bring a solid contact book of sources within the UK and European financial community, as well as an understanding of the region’s markets landscape to help readers put the news into context, joining the dots to tell the bigger story.

About the Role

As UK Finance Correspondent at Reuters, you will:

• Regularly break news on some of the biggest firms that trade in markets and the regulation that shapes the business
• Transform original story ideas into longer-form enterprise journalism, uncovering major hidden news or data that challenges the status quo or writes the first pages of history
• Join the dots in your reporting, telling the bigger story.
• Work seamlessly and collaboratively with the team and newsroom colleagues to deliver comprehensive and accurate stories quickly, using a range of multimedia formats including graphics, charts as well as text.

About You

As our UK Finance Correspondent, you are likely to have:

• Demonstrable experience of covering breaking news as part of a finance or related desk (i.e. regulation, insurance etc).
• First-class news judgement and proven ability to spot trends and generate agenda-setting stories
• Excellent writing and interviewing skills to produce accurate and unbiased news content in accordance with Reuters standards
• A variety of existing senior-level sources to develop and broaden
• Ability to unpick arcane financial concepts, and transform these into engaging stories that resonate with an expert financial audience and Reuters media clients
• Expertise in one or more our key reporting beats, ranging from regulation, market structure, trading and the firms that facilitate financial flows in the UK and across Europe

Please Note: Completed applications must be submitted by 23:59 on Sunday 22nd December 2024. Early applications are encouraged.