Reuters seeks editor to oversee energy markets news

Reuters News is seeking an exceptional journalist, an inspirational leader and an ambitious editor to lead coverage of the most important story of the modern era – the U.S. shale revolution, and its transformative impact on global energy markets, industry and policy.

The first chapter of this story has been well told, as domestic oil and natural gas production surged and imports fell, altering America’s strategic position in the world and upending the normal course of oil flowing around the planet.

Now, a new chapter is opening as OPEC’s inaction in the face of crashing prices shifts the burden of balancing an historic global supply glut onto debt-laden, cash-starved U.S. drillers. The ‘new normal’ of the shale boom is yielding to a new variety of bust, with oil prices, corporate fortunes and even geopolitics hanging in the balance.

As Editor in Charge of energy market news in the Americas, the successful candidate will be expected to drive coverage on two parallel, interconnected tracks: producing sophisticated, ahead-of-the-curve enterprise and investigative work that highlights emerging trends, analyzes major developments and tells a global financial audience about things that other people don’t want them to know; and also breaking market-moving real-time news for professional traders ahead of the competition, from refinery glitches to pipeline spills to arbitrage trades.

The EIC will be expected to lead by example, producing outstanding work under their own byline while directing and developing the talents and skills of a half-dozen specialist reporters in New York and another dozen or so across the region, helping them produce sharp, smart market stories for a global audience.

Competing at both ends of the spectrum, from split-second specialist spot news to agenda-setting multi-week enterprise, requires clear leadership, smart strategies and savvy news ideas. Above all, it requires a fierce determination to win.

To apply, go here.