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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates strong editorial leadership with a focus on audience engagement and strategic decision-making. Capable of overseeing diverse news coverage while maintaining high standards of accuracy, fairness, and independence.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Senior Editor ExperienceExceptional News JudgmentStrong Writing And Editing SkillsExperience Using Analytics In Editorial Decision-MakingCalm Leadership Under Pressure
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Hard Skills
Editorial Decision-MakingNews Meeting CoordinationAudience Insights AnalysisHeadline DevelopmentVisual Story Presentation
Soft Skills
Collaborative ApproachDecisive LeadershipAbility To Build TrustCoaching EditorsFlexibility Under Pressure
Industry Keywords
Digital JournalismBreaking News CoverageInternational AffairsBusiness NewsReuters Trust Principles
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead digital news meetings
- Set clear priorities and translate audience and subscriber strategy into focused daily execution
- Oversee programming and curation of Reuters journalism across platforms
- Balance breaking news, enterprise, investigations, analysis and features
- Make editorial decisions during major news moments
- Coordinate coverage across desks, bureaus, regions and time zones
- Elevate front-page curation, headlines, mobile alerts, visuals and story presentation
- Use audience insights and performance data to improve reach, habit and loyalty
- Partner with reporters, editors, bureau chiefs, visual, graphics, video, social and product teams
- Develop a team of digital editors
- Influence colleagues beyond the direct reporting line
- Build trust, alignment and strong editorial standards
- Act on behalf of the Digital Director when required
- Ensure coverage upholds Reuters Trust Principles of accuracy, fairness and independence
Requirements
What you’ll need- Significant experience as a senior editor in a fast-paced, high-stakes newsroom
- Experience leading live coverage and setting priorities during major breaking-news events
- Exceptional news judgment
- Ability to make quick, confident decisions while maintaining accuracy, fairness and independence
- Strong writing and editing skills
- Sharp instincts for headlines, mobile alerts, visuals and story presentation across platforms
- Strong understanding of audience and subscriber value
- Experience using analytics and audience insights in editorial decision-making
- Experience running news meetings
- Experience coaching editors
- Experience building alignment across desks, regions and teams without relying on formal authority
- Broad knowledge of international affairs and business news
- Understanding of what serves general consumers and professional audiences
- Collaborative, low-ego and hands-on approach
- Calm, decisive leadership under pressure
- Flexibility to work nights, weekends and major news events as required
- Preferred: experience partnering with visual journalism, graphics, video, social or product teams
- Preferred: experience coordinating editorial decision-making across regions and time zones
- Preferred: demonstrated success using programming, presentation or product insights to build reader habit, loyalty and subscription value
Benefits
Comp & perks- Global career and progression opportunities
- On-the-job learning and coaching
- Dedicated training team focused on continuous journalist development
- Competitive salary packages
- Market-leading benefits
- Paid volunteering days
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Vacation, sick and safe paid time off
- Paid holidays, including two company mental health days off
- Parental leave
- Sabbatical leave
- Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance
- Optional life and AD&D insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Accounts
- Fitness reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program
- Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit
- 529 Plan access
- Commuter benefits
- Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Annual bonus based on enterprise and individual performance
- Flexible and supportive benefits and wellbeing programs