Breaking News Correspondent, Sub-Saharan Africa

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Breaking News Correspondent, Sub-Saharan Africa

Job Description

• Reuters, the world’s largest international multimedia news provider, is looking for a Sub-Saharan Africa Breaking News Correspondent, based in Nairobi.

Key Responsibilities

• Become a key player in Reuters breaking news team, producing real‑time headlines, newsbreaks, updates, sidebars, and visually-driven human interest stories.

• Cover major breaking stories from Southern Africa and other Sub‑Saharan African countries, winning timings and making our stories stand out against our main competitors.

• Collaborate closely with text and visuals colleagues across the region, showing sharp news judgment.

Required qualifications

• At least one year’s experience in a fast-paced breaking news environment, demonstrating a track record of working in a diverse newsroom and excelling under pressure.

• Skill at processing complex information quickly.

• Ability to filter information from multiple news sources including social media to identify and report on key political and economic developments, and viral trends across Sub-Saharan Africa.

• Fast, succinct and accurate writing under intense time pressure.

• Working knowledge of the region’s currency and stock markets, and how they are driven by moves elsewhere in global financial markets.

• Fluent English; other languages (e.g. French, Spanish or Portuguese) a plus.

Preferred Qualifications