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About the Role

Reuters is seeking an ambitious, digitally minded Sports Reporter with outstanding knowledge of international sport and excellent written and spoken English, ready to thrive in a fast-paced global newsroom. You will operate as a fully multi-media journalist, working seamlessly across text, video and pictures as part of a dynamic global sports unit delivering to digital and broadcast clients worldwide. The successful candidate will join a team of talented reporters, delivering breaking news with speed and accuracy and have a demonstrated ability to seamlessly shift between multiple sports and coverage areas in a single day – from soccer, the NFL, NHL, MLB, NBA, tennis and golf to combat sports, doping and breaking news – while maintaining accuracy, speed and depth. You will also produce deeper, investigative stories that appeal to a wide range of Reuters subscribers, from media clients to financial specialists. A key part of this role will also be working closely with our colleagues in the visuals department. Experience in combining text, video, and pictures in news editing and story planning is a distinct advantage, as this role requires a multimedia approach to ensure our sports coverage stands out across platforms.

Responsibilities

• Break news and deliver fast, accurate, compelling sports stories for a global audience.
• Write clean, authoritative copy under deadline pressure — from quick-turn match reports to deeper enterprise pieces.
• Work closely with video producers, picture editors and graphics teams to shape integrated, multi-platform storytelling.
• Provide on-camera analysis when required.
• Identify strong visual elements and collaborate to ensure pictures and video enhance your reporting.
• Adapt stories for digital platforms with strong headlines and audience engagement in mind.
• Contribute ideas that travel across formats — from text to video to live digital coverage.

Requirements

• A track record of leading impactful and innovative sports journalism.
• Deep knowledge of global sport and a strong instinct for what matters in live competition.
• Experience filing fast, accurate copy in a breaking news environment.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across different platforms and regions.
• Familiarity with business and financial aspects of sports is a plus.
• A commitment to Reuters Trust Principles: independence, integrity and freedom from bias.

Skills

• Excellent written and spoken English
• Multimedia journalism
• Text, video, and picture integration
• Breaking news reporting
• Investigative storytelling
• On-camera analysis
• Digital platform adaptation
• Headline writing
• Audience engagement

Location

• Toronto, Canada

Work Type

• Fixed Term Contract
• Full-time
• Rotating shift system (weekends, afternoons, evenings)
• Some travel required

Experience Level

• Mid-level

Benefits

• Global career and progression opportunities
• On the job learning and coaching
• Dedicated training team
• Competitive salary packages
• Market leading benefits
• Paid volunteering days
• Work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists

About the Company

• Reuters is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, founded in 1851 and committed to the Trust Principles of independence, integrity and freedom from bias.
• With unmatched coverage in over 16 languages, 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, media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers.
• Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together trusted content and technology for 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.
• 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 consider it our duty to pursue 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.
• 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 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.