Companies Breaking News Editor, Asia

Reuters is looking for an experienced business journalist to help manage our coverage of major corporate stories during Asia hours. The editor will identify the biggest corporate stories as they break and look for ways to distinguish our file, working with beat reporters, global industry editors and bureau chiefs.

We are looking for a newsroom leader with a deep understanding of business, acute news judgment, creative story ideas, the ability to make fast decisions, and the agility to manage multiple stories at the same time. Producing fast, smart, and distinctive reporting in the first hours after a big story breaks is a core mission of Reuters and critical to our financial, professional and media customers.

The job will be based in Singapore or another city in Asia.

**About this job**

As a Companies Breaking News Editor, you will:

- Shape our corporate news file to meet the needs of financial, professional and media customers
- News edit the biggest stories of the day and assign reporting lines to yield scoops, distinctive sidebars and connect the dots for global audiences
- Plan ahead for major events to ensure that we have a strong reporting plan, prewrites and newsplanner entries
- Think strategically about news priorities and redirect efforts away from stories that don’t serve our customers well
- Work closely and collaboratively with other companies editors as well as finance and markets teams, Bangalore, Gdansk, breaking news hubs, and multimedia desks

**About you**

To be a Companies Breaking News Editor, you are likely to have:

- Solid professional experience reporting on business news and/or editing business stories at a major news organization
- Sophisticated news judgment and ability to prioritize coverage and delegate assignments
- Strong grasp of what investors look for in company news stories, and understanding of our financial, professional and media customers
- Knowledge of corporate accounts, valuations and how to use them effectively in stories
- Ability to make decisions quickly and edit news stories well under tight deadlines
- Collaborative leadership skills, enjoy teamwork and working globally

**What’s in it For You**

At Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

- ** Global Career**: As a global company, we can offer a truly international career and progression opportunities
- ** Learning & Development**: On the job learning and coaching. We also have a dedicated training team focused on the continuous development of our journalists
- ** Benefits**: We offer competitive salary packages and market leading benefits including paid volunteering days
- ** Perks**: Work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and a team who provide unmatched, award-winning coverage of the world’s most important stories.

**About Reuters**

Reuters is the world’s largest multimedia news provider. Founded in 1851, it is committed to the Trust Principles of independence, integrity and freedom from bias. With unmatched coverage in over 16 languages, and reaching billions of people worldwide every day, Reuters provides trusted intelligence that powers humans and machines to make smart decisions. It supplies business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers. Reuters: The Real World in Real Time

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

**Accessibility**

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protecte