Reuters seeks a visionary and innovative editor to drive its prize-winning investigative and explanatory journalism into the video realm. The Documentary Investigations Editor will drive the reporting, editing and production of short and long feature documentaries, working with other journalists from text, video, graphics, photo and visual verification to ensure true multi-platform delivery of our most ambitious journalism.
About The Role
As Documentary Investigations Editor at Reuters, you will:
- Work with reporters and editors across our global newsroom. You will marshal the right assortment of journalists in collaborations that produce engrossing and flawlessly executed short and long films.
- Weave together reporting from multiple disciplines. It may include satellite imagery or data analysis, user-generated video, or old-fashioned shoe leather reporting.
- Collaborate with other world-class editors skilled in investigative reporting, visual storytelling and news design to ensure our reporting maximizes its multi-media potential. We want you working on stories that capitalize on all of our strengths – text, photography, graphics, video and data journalism – and we seek to deliver these stories on multiple platforms.
- Help market our long-form video to potential clients. You will think innovatively, figuring out how to deliver it in ways that meet their needs and make them hungry for more.
About You
To be our Documentary Investigations Editor at Reuters, you will likely have:
- Demonstrable experience of producing ambitious, high-impact video investigations that make the best of traditional and OSINT reporting, video and data journalism.
- An eagerness to embrace data and an understanding of how it can deepen and enhance our storytelling.
- Impeccable news judgment, including the ability to bullet-proof the accuracy and fairness of investigative reporting.
- Expertise in transforming data-heavy OSINT investigations into coherent and impactful video products that can be understood by a wide audience.
- A pioneering spirit and a record of innovation.
- Experience launching new things and bringing the right stakeholders together.
- The market know-how and critical industry connections to market short and long documentary video successfully to broadcast, streaming and other platforms.
Please Note: Complete applications must be submitted by 23:59 (BST) on Wednesday 17th September 2025. Early applications are encouraged.
To apply, go here.
