Multimedia News Producer

9 Months ago • 4-4 Years

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Join Reuters as a Multimedia News Producer in Bangalore! We're looking for a journalist with 4+ years of experience in news agencies or newsrooms, strong news judgment, and multimedia skills to create engaging content for our global audience. You'll be responsible for sub-editing, localizing, and filing stories with multimedia assets for Reuters Ready packages and our website.

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Job Description

Multimedia News Producer

Are you a journalist who desires to be part of a news production team that can reach millions of readers in a matter of seconds? Digital Desk at Reuters in Bangalore does exactly that, with producers and editors delivering news to reuters.com and other media clients across the globe. We need producers who can think on their feet, and value accuracy and speed.

About The Role

As a Multimedia News Producer, You will

In this opportunity as a Multimedia News Producer, you will be part of the India digital desk in Bangalore, sub-editing/localising and filing stories with relevant multimedia assets for media clients subscribing to our ready-to-publish packages (Reuters Ready), and for our revamped news website.

We are a 24/7 desk, involving shifts and weekends work.

About You

You're a fit for the role of Multimedia News Producer if your background includes:

Degree in Journalism/Mass Communication from a reputed university/institute.

At least 4 years of experience in a news agency, newspaper, or TV newsroom .

Impeccable writing Strong news judgement .

Knowledge of politics, economy, policy, markets, technology, sports, and entertainment Multimedia experience

High level of creativity, providing excellent packaging ideas for the web and thinking beyond the obvious

Strong team player, good communication skills

Fast and accurate editing and packaging for the web

Good at using editorial technology

Solid understanding of legal risks and strong ethics

The producer should have a keen eye for detail and keep our target sophisticated news consumer business audience in mind while ensuring the website is updated with the latest and best stories, photos, slideshows and videos curated from the Reuters wires, photo and video service.

The producer should be able to liaise with editors in NY and London to curate and design the homepage and other professional landing pages on reuters.com

The producer needs to be adept at proofreading social tweets/posts, mobile alerts, Google panels and corrections.

What's In It For You

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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/Affirmative Action 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.

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