Headline News Reporter fluent in Spanish

Job Description

Headline News Reporter fluent in Spanish

You and your team:

Reuters is seeking candidates who can speak Spanish to join its real-time news operation in Gdansk. The reporters will work in fast-paced, international environment and get to produce headlines, write short stories in English about companies from one of the Europe’s biggest economies, boasting three of the euro zone’s biggest banks, the world’s largest clothing retailer Inditex and telecom giant Telefonica. The reporters also translate English-language Reuters news into Spanish and create media packages for our clients.

The reporters will also closely work with Portuguese service to translate crucial, market-moving news for Reuters Portuguese-speaking customers.

Why is this job important?

Trading desks, hedge funds and asset managers at major multinational banks use subscription-based Reuters Eikon terminal to get fast & accurate information to base their investment decision. Your stories for Reuters will also be seen on Reuters.com and other extensions available to read for everyone. Reuters news and information reaches one billion people every day.

In your role you will be responsible for:

• Writing headlines and news summaries accurately, quickly and with high standards of credibility, in accordance with Reuters principles and operating standards
• Searching through approved sources to grasp and translate news from the local language into English
• Quickly translating top Reuters stories into Spanish
• Identifying market-moving figures and comments to filter out news stories from sources including electronic news releases, conferences calls, Webcasts
• Creating media packages that combine Spanish-language Reuters stories with multimedia content
• Qualifications - What do you need to bring?
• Fluency in Spanish and English, Portuguese skills are a plus
• Strong translation skills: Spanish-English and English-Spanish
• Strong news judgment
• Ability to write with speed, clarity, accuracy and freedom from bias
• A sound command of grammar, spelling, punctuation
• Comfort with handling financial data and facts accurately and quickly
• Knowledge of corporate activity, stock markets and financial vocabulary, or an ability to gain such knowledge quickly
• An ability to work under time pressure
• Willingness to undertake shifts

Our offer:

• Job in an international, dynamic environment
• Intensive training package
• Wellbeing scheme including private healthcare and Multisport card
• Company social incentives.
• High standards of ethics in the workplace
• Networking opportunities
• ​2 additional days off for voluntary activities

At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With more than 25,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.

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 protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.
To learn more about what we offer, please visit thomsonreuters.com/careers .
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