Economics Correspondent, Southern Africa

2 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Thomson Reuters Full time

Reuters is looking for an insightful and driven correspondent to cover Southern Africa’s economies, including South Africa, the continent’s most industrialised economy and a heavily traded emerging market; Angola, its second-largest oil producer and OPEC member; Zambia, a major copper producer and first COVID-era debt casualty; and Mozambique and Namibia, two countries hoping to transform their economies by developing major gas and oil reserves.

Based in Johannesburg, the post offers an enterprising reporter the opportunity to report on a wide range of issues, from how fiscal and monetary policies are impacting companies, consumers and investors, to how the pandemic, climate change, high debt loads and soaring global commodities prices are impacting the region’s economies.

As am **Economics Correspondent at Reuters**, you will:

- Bring ideas, energy and enthusiasm
- Cultivate high-level sources among the region’s central banks and finance ministries, multinational lenders such as the IMF and World Bank, and among investors and traders to break exclusive news, provide insightful analysis and produce revelatory features
- Be fast and ensure Reuters clients get the news first
- Work closely with colleagues in the region and globally to connect the dots between countries and highlight trends
- Take the lead on complex multimedia stories with multiple contributors

To be our **Economics Correspondent,** you will likely:

- Be a self-starter and excellent team player
- Have deep knowledge of the region’s macroeconomics, currency and bond markets, and central banks
- Have a proven ability to break news and a knack for explaining its significance to a global audience
- Be as comfortable covering breaking news at speed, as delivering deeply reported, high-impact, features
- Have at least three years of experience working as a journalist, including in a real-time news environment
- Be fluent in English with strong writing skills; Portuguese would be a plus
- Have experience using data and analytical tools to build graphics and highlight trends

**What’s in it For You?**

At Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

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Global Career**: As a global company, we can offer a truly international career and progression opportunities
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Learning & Development**: On the job learning and coaching with an intensive training package. We also have a dedicated training team focused on the continuous development of our journalists
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Benefits**: We offer competitive salary packages and market leading benefits including paid volunteering days and a wellbeing scheme including private healthcare and Multisport card
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Perks**: Work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and a team who provide unmatched, award-winning coverage of the world’s most important stories.

**About Reuters**

Reuters is the world’s largest multimedia news provider. Founded in 1851, it is committed to the Trust Principles of independence, integrity and freedom from bias. With unmatched coverage in over 16 languages, and reaching billions of people worldwide every day, 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, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers. Reuters: The Real World in Real Time

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

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