Singapore Chief Correspondent

Reuters is looking for a versatile and energetic journalist to lead its Singapore bureau, directing coverage of Southeast Asia’s main financial center and one of the region’s bellwether economies. Singapore, a key trading and energy hub, is also home to one of the world’s most-traded currencies and most closely watched central banks. Emerging from the travel curbs and strict regulations that made it a pandemic success story, Singapore is now vying to attract bankers, legal experts and other professionals seeking to relocate amid Hong Kong’s zero-COVID policies.

A diverse city-state of 5.5 million people, Singapore in one generation transformed itself from a small trading post into a thriving, modern metropolis and magnet for global investment and trade. Foreign workers - from expatriate financiers to high-tech professionals to construction workers - make up one-fifth of the population, many of them drawn by business-friendly regulations, low crime and taxes, political stability and a high quality of life.

Singapore also holds a distinctive role in geopolitics. It has close economic and diplomatic ties to both Beijing and Washington - a balance that is becoming increasingly difficult as Washington seeks to pursue its Indo-Pacific Strategy in part to counter China.

The job requires a journalist with an understanding of monetary policy and markets, as well as a keen eye for a good tale and new trends. A typical day could include sending alerts on monetary policy, breaking news on a Chinese company’s IPO or even an otter attack.

**About the Role**
As **Singapore Chief Corresponden**t, you will:

- Lead and develop a small team of talented reporters.
- Keep Reuters competitive in the high-pressure race to be first with central bank decisions and key economic indicators
- Spot trends and develop insightful, deeply reported initiatives.
- Build sources among business and government leaders.
- Coordinate across Reuters text and visuals teams and with editors, bureau chiefs and correspondents around the globe.
- Tell the story through the best medium - in words, video, pictures or graphics.
**About You**

You’re a fit for the role of **Singapore Chief Correspondent** if your background includes:

- Aptitude in reporting on monetary policy, companies, currencies and general news.
- An ability to produce news at speed and under pressure.
- At least five years of experience in journalism.
- A record of breaking exclusive news and delivering agenda-setting initiative stories.
- Experience taking photos and video in a small bureau with limited resources.
- Deft writing ability, including switching from news alerts, trunk writing and initiatives.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to develop staff members’ skills.
**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:

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Global Career**: As a global company, we can offer a truly international career and progression opportunities
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Learning & Development**: On the job learning and coaching. We also have a dedicated training team focused on the continuous development of our journalists
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Benefits**: We offer competitive salary packages and market leading benefits including paid volunteering days
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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

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