News Reporter with French, Reuters

Reuters is seeking candidates who can speak fluent English and French to join its real-time news operation in Gdansk, Poland.

The reporters will work in fast paced, international environment to produce headlines, write short stories about companies from one of Europe's biggest economies, produce multimedia packages, translate international news for Reuters' French-speaking audience, and become part of Reuters' global network.

Trading desks, hedge funds and asset managers at major multinational banks use subscription-based Eikon terminal to get fast & accurate information to base their investment decision on. Your stories for Reuters will also be seen by our media clients, on Reuters.com and other websites read by the public. Reuters news and information reach one billion people every day.

About the Role
As our French Speaking News Reporter, you will:

• Scan press releases from companies and regulators in English and French to quickly identify key information, write headlines and news summaries in both languages
• Monitor stock price changes and writing short English-language news summaries explaining the moves
• Write short alerts on French, Belgian, and Dutch macroeconomic data, such as GDP and inflation, quickly and accurately
• Translate market reports, general, political, economic and company news stories from English to French
• Apply news judgment to pick relevant Reuters news and package it with pictures and videos for Reuters News online clients
• Contribute to Fact-Checking of social media content about France

About You
To be our French Speaking News Reporter, you will have:

• Fluency in English and French
• Strong translation skills
• Strong news judgment and the 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 work in shifts and on weekends
• Prior experience in solid social media newsgathering, OSINT or fact-checking will be an advantage

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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.
• Industry Competitive 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.

About Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. 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.

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