Reuters seeks M&A correspondent in New York

Reuters is seeking a reporter focusing on breaking news on mergers and acquisitions with an emphasis on major deals, and investment banking activities in the Technology & Telecommunications sector.

Specific job duties include:

· Report and break news on various activities of deals and dealmakers including large scale mergers and acquisitions in tech, media, cable & telecom industries.
· Publish accurate, market-moving news alerts faster than the competition and meeting newswire deadlines for writing copy.
· Be able to handle getting market moving information from confidential sources on widely followed and traded companies such as Apple, Google, Verizon and Comcast.
· Report on how political developments will affect mergers and acquisitions including an understanding of the workings of Washington and lobbying around specific issues.
· As part of the M&A team, report on private equity, shareholder activism, and corporate restructurings involving tech, media, cable, telecom companies.
· Analyze deals that have already happened, coordinating with beat reporters to identify those businesses or industries ripest for deal making and tirelessly chasing down any and all leads.
· Responsible for writing groundbreaking analysis and regular “Dealtalk” columns that examine trends in the takeover on industry trends in deal making.
· Follow and compile industry rankings/league tables of investment banks based on fees in the sector.
· Understand the equity-offering process including IPOs and secondary offerings.· Develop sources to follow auction processes in the sale of private companies, spinoffs.
· Understand the regulatory process and U.S. Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission, the bodies that review deals.
· Generate ideas for investigative stories and longer form enterprising pieces that tackle issues relevant to the sector.
· Contribute to the production of financial graphics and multimedia content.
· Appear in videos to talk about mergers and acquisitions in the sector.
· 20% Travel required.

To apply, go here.