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About the Role
Dow Jones seeks versatile reporters to join its EMEA team, fueling its real-time news and analysis service for financial professionals. Reporters will monitor news sources, identify key developments, and produce concise headlines and short stories for immediate publication. A significant part of the role involves analyzing news signals for investors, starting with quick-fire analysis of corporate news and progressing to longer-form articles and thematic pieces. Reporters will also typically cover a specific industry sector.
Responsibilities
- Identify news of importance to professionals and efficiently prioritize and summarize into briefs and analysis.
- Recognize and respond to the core audiences for Dow Jones Newswires, and their needs and expectations.
- Collaborate with reporters and editors from other groups, including Dow Jones Newswires, WSJ and other colleagues in other bureaus and regions.
- Communicate precisely and with compassion.
- Uphold Dow Jones standards and ethics.
- Monitor press releases, websites and other news sources.
- Fire off headlines and short stories on key developments for publication in real time.
- Analyze news and the signals it provides to investors.
- Handle market-moving news of all kinds.
- Assume responsibility for a sector, such as banks, drug makers or telecommunications companies.
Requirements
- Accuracy, speed, excellent news judgment and a close eye for detail are essential.
- Must be able to thrive in a fast-paced, high-volume news environment.
- Teamwork and communication skills will be hugely important.
- Need to have the flexibility to jump quickly between subjects and tasks while keeping a calm, clear head.
- A well-honed sense of urgency along with a capacity to remain calm under pressure.
- Ability to prioritize tasks and time while handling multiple responsibilities.
- Intellectual curiosity and a desire to learn.
- Flexibility in changing/handing off tasks.
- General awareness of how a newsroom works.
- A solid sense of teamwork.
Skills
- Identifying important, forward-looking detail from a fast-moving stream of information.
- Turning information into informative, punchy headlines and short articles in English.
- Quickly analyze news and the signals it provides to investors.
- Excellent written English.
- Strong grasp of at least one other European language aside from Spanish is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of what to look for in corporate earnings statements and releases.
- Familiarity with economic data, financial markets and regulation.
- Strong interest in economic data, financial markets and regulation.
Work Type
- real-time news
- breaking news
About the Company
- Dow Jones is the global authority in business journalism and publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application and/or interview process.