About the Role
Join The Insurer, part of Reuters News, as a London-based news correspondent covering the global specialty insurance industry. Focus on the London market, sourcing exclusive news and covering companies and major risks. Play a pivotal role in reporting on how factors like climate change and geopolitical uncertainty impact the global risk landscape.
Responsibilities
- Cover breaking news across the insurance and reinsurance markets.
- Develop a strong market-facing contacts network to generate exclusive leads.
- Hunt and deliver exclusive news, originating differentiated, high-impact coverage.
- Use quantitative data to uncover and explain industry trends.
- Report from key industry events, producing timely news, analysis, and colour.
- Produce interviews and features to identify underlying trends and provide deeper market insight.
- Contribute to multi-platform coverage, including writing, basic video reporting, and on-camera interviews.
Requirements
- Experience covering financial services is preferred.
- Insurance or closely related sector knowledge is an advantage.
- Comfort reporting on technical and complex issues, with the ability to explain them clearly and accurately.
- A strong hunger for news, with the drive to deliver fast, accurate, and original journalism.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including confidence engaging with C-suite executives and senior market figures.
- A demonstrable instinct to dig deeper, going beyond surface-level developments to uncover insight and trend-driven analysis.
- Data-confident and curious, with an interest in using quantitative information to support and strengthen editorial storytelling.
- Video-journalism capability, including confidence conducting filmed interviews, presenting on camera, and working with basic video recording and editing tools.
- Comfortable working across platforms, with a willingness to adapt stories for text, video, and digital formats.
Skills
- Reporting
- Journalism
- News Gathering
- Data Analysis
- Video Reporting
- Interviewing
- Communication
- Interpersonal Skills
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Professional
Benefits
- Global Career opportunities
- On the job learning and coaching
- Dedicated training team for continuous development
- Competitive salary packages
- Market leading benefits
- Paid volunteering days
About the Company
- Reuters is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, founded in 1851 and committed to independence, integrity, and freedom from bias.
- Reuters provides trusted intelligence that powers humans and machines to make smart decisions.
- Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together trusted content and technology.
- We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media.
- 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.
- We are committed to objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency.
Equal Opportunity
- As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals.
- 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 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.
