Graduate News Reporter, Reuters (French Speaking)

Reuters is seeking a graduate 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 Graduate 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

About You
To be our 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
• Openness to gain knowledge of corporate activity, stock markets and financial vocabulary
• An ability to work under time pressure
• Willingness to work in shifts and on weekends

Please note, the deadline for applications is Sunday, September 3rd, 2023.
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:

• Kickstart your journalistic career with the opportunity to learn and be coached by experienced Reuters journalists and to build a global network
• Develop understanding and knowledge of global business, industry and markets and receive training on how to report on them
• Do work that matters for our global news customers: getting trusted information to outlets as quickly as possible, ensuring they don’t miss newsworthy information
• Experience being part of a dynamic, multi-national, multi-lingual newsroom with diverse backgrounds
• Get to know and utilize professional-grade financial software
• Get access to multiple training sessions delivered by members of the global learning team
• Performance based development and secondment opportunities with other bureaus and teams
• Benefits: We offer competitive salary and benefits package including paid volunteering and mental health days, private healthcare and gym card

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. 
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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.