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 and telecommunications sector.
Specific job duties include:
– Report and break news on various activities of deals and deal makers including large-scale mergers and acquisitions in tech, media, cable & telecom industries.
– Publish accurate, market-moving news alerts faster than the competition and meeting news wire 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.
– 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.
– on industry trends in deal making.
– Follow and compile industry rankings/league tables of investment banks based on fees in the sector.
– 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.
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