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Reuters seeks M&A reporter in London

Reuters is looking for an experienced scoop-driven M&A reporter to break stories on market-moving deals, one of the newsiest, most market-sensitive parts of the file.

Major Responsibilities / Accountabilities:
The successful candidate will regularly break news on the most competitive M&A deals in EMEA, helping Reuters to report market-moving news that is regularly the most-read part of the file.
They will be expected to have a track record of M&A scoops and possess strong relationships with M&A sources in the UK and/or across Europe including banking sources, investors and company insiders.
They will win exclusive stories on live and expected deals and follow them throughout their life cycle, working closely with Reuters’ M&A team in London and its network of financial reporters in the region.
They will have an inquisitive personality, strong source-building skills and a deep understanding of public takeovers as well as private equity auctions.

Key Relationships:
Deliver exclusive news on live and expected deals
Have solid relationships with M&A bankers as well as lawyers, investors and company insiders
Have a deep understanding of deal-making and public takeovers
Ability to quickly develop sources when M&A news breaks
Excellent interviewing technique for secretive bankers and investors and tenacity in building contacts
Ability to identify trends in M&A and capital markets transactions

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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