Debtwire APAC Deputy Editor

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| Hong Kong (On Site) | Full Time | 11 months ago
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Job Summary

Debtwire is looking for a deputy editor in Hong Kong to refine copy from rough drafts to polished prose under tight deadlines. The ideal candidate will possess impeccable English language skills and a background in financial journalism. While experience in corporate finance, distressed debt, or restructuring is advantageous, it is not a mandatory requirement. Key responsibilities include editing drafts for factual accuracy and logical coherence, collaborating with reporters on story approaches and sourcing, fact-checking, identifying and mitigating legal and reputational risks in stories, and overseeing aggregated content for accuracy and grammatical correctness. The role also involves writing stories summarizing court and non-court documents, checking other ION Analytics sites for relevant content, posting time-sensitive announcements, and scanning publications for aggregation opportunities.

Must Have

  • Flawless English language skills
  • Financial journalism background
  • Editing reporter and analyst drafts
  • Fact checking
  • Checking copy for defamatory statements
  • Writing stories summarizing documents

Good to Have

  • Experience covering corporate finance
  • Experience covering distressed debt
  • Experience covering restructuring
  • Bachelor's degree in financial journalism

Job Description

The Role:
Debtwire is seeking a deputy editor to join its team in Hong Kong, where they will help shepherd copy from rough draft to polished prose on tight deadlines. The ideal candidate will have flawless English language skills and a background in financial journalism. Experience covering corporate finance, distressed debt and/or restructuring are a plus, but not required.

Key Responsibilities:

    • Editing reporter and analysts drafts to ensure that there are no factual inaccuracies or logical flaws.
    • Working with reporters and analysts to determine how to approach a story or report, what angles should be worked, what sourcing is required and whether the reporters/analysts should coordinate with others on the team or other ION Analytics products to produce the story/analyst report. 
    • Fact checking.   
    • Checking all copy for defamatory statements and/or misrepresentation of facts and assessing any other legal and/or reputational risks the stories may pose to the company. 
    • Stopping any story from publication and informing either Managing Editors whenever there are legal and reputational risks involved in a story. 
    • Overseeing aggregated content to make sure that headlines accurately reflect the meaning of a story or announcement, and that these stories are free of grammatical errors. 
    • Writing stories for Debtwire that summarize court documents including those from US Bankruptcy Courts. 
    • Writing stories for Debtwire that summarize non-court documents (e.g. letters sent by ad hoc committees to debtors). 
    • Checking other ION Analytics sites to see whether there is aggregated content that should be re-issued or re-tagged for Debtwire and whether there are companies that should be added to the Debtwire universe. 
    • Posting time sensitive creditor group/company/rating agency/primary issue announcements. 
    • Scanning newsletters and specialized publications for items that should be aggerated. 
    • Checking opps to makes sure they are properly tagged for lifecycle events, topics, relationship groups etc and making adjustments wherever necessary.

Required Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

    • A bachelor's degree, preferably with a focus on financial journalism
    • English language skills
    • Experience covering corporate finance, distressed debt and/or restructuring are a plus
About us
We’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. Founded in 1999, we’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.        

• Over 2,000 of the world’s leading corporations, including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the world’s central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading and risk.        

• Over 800 of the world’s leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the world’s financial market infrastructure. ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group with 13,000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe.

Our ever-expanding global footprint, cutting edge products, and over 40,000 customers worldwide provide an unparalleled career experience for those who share our vision. ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business. ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.

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