Thomson Reuters Off-Campus Drive; Hiring Trainee Correspondent – Apply Now

Thomson Reuters are looking for a talented, well-organized news hound to be a part of Reuters’ Bangalore newsroom. The successful candidate will be a people person, a great communicator and, above all, should have a passion for news. With around 400 journalists, Bangalore is Reuters’ 3rd largest newsroom. It is at the centre of covering real-time news on companies, commodities, and economics. Bangalore is the seat of Reuters’ company news headlines team for North America, UK, and the Asia Pacific region. It is also the global Publishing hub for Reuters – where they curate news stories, pictures, graphics and video for financial readers. Add the fact that they cover stories on the Apple iPhone to Goldman Sachs to Pepsi to Boeing and everything in between, and you've got a bustling 24/5 bureau.

Name of the Organization: Thomson Reuters

Requisition ID: JREQ177733

Positions: Trainee Correspondent

Location: Bengaluru (Hybrid)

Salary: As per company Norms

Educational Qualifications:

• A degree in Journalism or equivalent experience, but it’s not a must.
• A fair knowledge of corporate activity and stock markets (or at least the ability to gain such knowledge quickly)

Skills Required:

• The ability to think clearly and write quickly
• Good grammar, spelling, and punctuation skills
• A level of comfort with handling figures and facts accurately and capability to digest financial data
• The willingness and ability to work under tight deadlines and in various shifts

Job Description:

• Be fairly comfortable with numbers to be able to cut through the corporate jargon to flesh out a top- notch readable story
• Write stories that are accurate, fast (we don’t report yesterday’s news), and are fair (every story has two sides)
• Have the news judgment to differentiate between news that can make or break a company and PR speak - and be able to prioritize news, analysis and views for an investment audience
• Have the ability to network and develop sources and contacts– you will be talking to CEOs, PR folks, analysts at top broker houses
• Spot trends that can be written into big picture stories like features or analysis
• Be able to rewrite headlines, news leads and captions to suit audience requirements
• Have a strong interest and expertise in monitoring international news wires and other outlets, including social media

 

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