Thomson Reuters Hiring for Middle East Breaking News Hub Correspondent, Reuters Job at Dubai Full Time

Reuters is seeking an Arabic and Farsi-speaking journalist to join its Middle East Breaking News Hub, preferably in Dubai or Cairo. The hub is in charge of producing real time news alerts and stories in English and Arabic from a variety of sources, including TV broadcast, podcasts, social media and news agency feeds, working closely with bureaus and correspondents across the Middle East and North Africa region to break with the highest degree of accuracy news that is important for Reuters’ global audience of decision makers in the worlds of business, media and politics.

This role will focus on the Arab countries and Iran. An excellent command of the Arabic, Farsi and English languages is a requirement.

About the Role

As a Breaking News Correspondent, you will:

• Publish news alerts and urgent reports clearly, accurately and quickly

• Work under pressure in a very fast-paced environment

• Decode alerts/urgent reports from financial and energy statements, speeches, tweets a TV broadcast

To be one of our Breaking News Correspondents, you should have:

• A strong understanding of the politics, social change and conflicts at play within the Middle East

• A solid knowledge of the energy and financial industries

• An ability to work under pressure, and work early or late shifts

• An ability to work with a large team across the Middle East and North Africa region

Please note, the deadline for applications is Sunday 28th August 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:

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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

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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