Senior Off-Platform Editor, Reuters

Reuters is looking for a senior editor to join the off-platform team to lead EMEA coverage on our many platforms. You will work with video, images and text gathered by our global news teams to produce native content for our all of our platforms.

This editor must have excellent writing and video-editing skills, and experience creating multimedia content. You should be an avid consumer -- and have a clear understanding of -- digital and social media, including insight into upcoming trends. The role demands social media fluency and the ideal candidate will thrive in a deadline-driven, fast-paced environment. Good editorial judgment and a passion for news are critical. 

This role is based in London, UK

As a Senior Off-Platform Editor at Reuters, you will:

• Plan, manage and execute engaging social media strategies, assets and language for breaking news stories

• Ability to multitask, balance priorities and thrive in a fast-paced newsroom environment

• Develop, prepare and execute editorial duties for special report campaigns that promote special reports, enterprise news and graphics, investigatory and explanatory reporting etc.

• Day-to-day editorial management of all Reuters social media platforms including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, adapting content to suit different channels

• Ensure you are across EMEA regional news as well as larger global news stories

• Monitor news wire for breaking news snaps and story updates

• Ensuring breaking-news snaps and stories are sent quickly and accurately

• Recommend improvements and strategies to increase performance and set targets to increase engagement and encourage collaboration across teams and departments

• Oversee, deliver and double-check content across different platforms - ensure posts and stories are accurate and any corrections are executed openly and swiftly.

• Ensure live feeds are posted and monitored across multiple platforms

• Undertake daily analytics assessments, know what is outperforming across our key platforms and devise strategies to amplify our stories and coverage

• Track, analyze and report on performance on social media platforms using Rival IQ, CrowdTangle, TweetDeck, Google/YouTube Analytics, Facebook insights and Chartbeat

• Support social team by proofing social copy, offering suggestions, troubleshooting and alerting line-manager on any wide-ranging issues

• Train other staff and wider newsroom colleagues on the use of social media and best-practices.

• Manage social media communities by monitoring posts and flagging any obscene content or offensive discussion to the relevant platform moderators

To be our Senior Off-Platform Editor, you will likely:

• Have excellent writing and video-editing skills, and experience creating multimedia content

• Be an avid consumer -- and have a clear understanding of -- digital and social media, including insight into upcoming trends

• Have social media fluency

• Thrive in a deadline-driven, fast-paced environment

• Have excellent editorial judgment and a passion for news

Please note, the deadline for applications is Sunday 3rd July 2022.

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 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.

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