EIC, Latin America News Hub

Job Description

Reuters is looking for a seasoned Editor-in-Charge to lead its Latin America News Hub in Mexico City.

The Hub is dedicated to produce real-time company news alerts and briefs in English for the region from different sources in Spanish and Portuguese.

The EIC will coordinate a team in our growing Mexico operation and take quick decisions that will shape our corporate coverage. Speed is core to the operation.

The ideal candidate will be a strong leader with excellent people skills, impeccable corporate news judgment and a track record of helping promising staff to fulfill their potential.

The editor will partner with the leadership team in Latin America to enhance the overall quality of the file.

Reuters news and information reaches one billion people every day. Trading desks, hedge funds and asset managers at major multinational banks rely on Reuters to get fast and accurate information. Your stories for Reuters will also be seen by hundreds of media clients, on Reuters.com and other extensions.

About the role:

As our EIC, Latam News Hub, you will:

• Lead a diverse and growing team
• Apply news judgement and give overall direction to the company news coverage so that the file meets customer needs and performance standards
• Ensure we publish news alerts and urgent stories clearly, accurately and quickly to deliver the news first to our subscribers
• Work under pressure in a very fast-paced environment
• Help to drive innovation and generate smart ideas
• Deliver strong team performance in a positive environment
• Take an active interest in training new staff and continuous coaching

To be our Headline News Reporter, you will have:

• At least 10 years’ experience in journalism with proven excellence in news judgment, reporting, writing and editing. Experience in a real-time news service an advantage
• Excellent command of English and Spanish or Portuguese
• Ability to lead teams, juggle multiple priorities and work across borders
• Excellent people skills, confidence communicating with editors and bureaus and ability to coach and mentor staff
• Talent at generating ideas, cool head under pressure

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

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 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 country or local law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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 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.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com .