News Reporter/Translator with Turkish
You and your team:
Reuters is seeking candidates who can speak fluent English and Turkish to join its real-time news operation in Gdansk. The reporters will work in fast-paced, international environment and get to produce headlines and write short stories about companies from Europe’s biggest economies, translate stories for Turkish speaking audience and become part of Reuters global network.
Why is this job important?
Trading desks, hedge funds and asset managers at major multinational banks use subscription-based Eikon terminal to get fast & accurate information to base their investment decision. Your stories for Reuters will also be seen by our media clients, on Reuters.com and other extensions available to read for everyone. Reuters news and information reaches one billion people every day.
About the Role
In your role you will be responsible for:
• Writing headlines and news summaries accurately, quickly and with high standards of credibility, in accordance with Reuters principles and operating standards
• Searching through approved sources to grasp and translate news
• Identifying market-moving figures and comments to filter out news stories from sources including electronic news releases, conferences calls, Webcasts
• Translating market reports, stories from English to Turkish and from Turkish to English
• Applying news judgment and picking relevant news and package it for Reuters News online clients
• Covering economic indicators for Turkey
About You
• Fluency in English and Turkish
• Strong translation skills
• Strong news judgment
• Ability to write with speed, clarity, accuracy and freedom from bias
• A sound command of grammar, spelling, punctuation
• Comfort with handling financial data and facts accurately and quickly
• Knowledge of corporate activity, stock markets and financial vocabulary, or an ability to gain such knowledge quickly
• An ability to work under time pressure
• Willingness to undertake shifts
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:
Kickstart your journalistic career with the opportunity to learn and be coached by experienced Reuters journalists and to build a global network
Develop understanding and knowledge of global business, industry and markets and receive training on how to report on them
Do work that matters for our global news customers: getting trusted information to outlets as quickly as possible, ensuring they don’t miss newsworthy information
Experience being part of a dynamic, multi-national, multi-lingual newsroom with diverse backgrounds
Get to know and utilize professional-grade financial software
Get access to multiple training sessions delivered by members of the global learning team
Performance based development and secondment opportunities with other bureaus and teams
Benefits: We offer competitive salary and benefits package including paid volunteering and mental health days, private healthcare and gym card