News Summer Internship Programme
Reuters is seeking ambitious, energetic graduates and/or final year students with excellent language skills to join its real-time news operation in Gdansk, Poland, for a three-month internship.
Successful candidates will be immersed in a fast paced, international environment, working directly with editorial teams that publish alerts on major corporate news developments; write short stories about major companies in Europe’s biggest economies; produce online packages used by global media customers; and translate international news.
Applicants must speak fluent English and have strong conversational skills in at least one additional European language. They will bring a strong work ethic, a readiness to learn quickly and an obsession with winning.
We’re very interested in hearing from candidates who can speak and write in any of the following languages: French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Greek.
Our summer internship programme will start in June 2024, although we can be flexible based on your University term.
What you can learn?
How Reuters is the fastest news agency in the world, delivering market-moving news to traders, investors and consumers globally within seconds
How to work in a time-pressure environment that requires strong judgment, exceptional attention to detail and fast reflexes to identify key information from a financial statement
How news events impact financial markets, using the leading professional financial terminal, Refinitiv’s Eikon, to monitor prices and analyze developments
How to plan coverage of major corporate earnings releases and economic data indicators such as GDP and inflation
How to create multimedia packages for Reuters News online clients
How to translate market reports, general, political, economic and company news stories from English at speed (French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Greek)
What you need to bring?
Fluent English and very good knowledge of one other European language (French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Greek)
A strong interest in journalism and/or financial markets
Excellent writing and communication skills; translation skills a strong plus
Attention to detail, comfort with handling data and facts accurately and quickly
Eagerness to learn and collaborate with others
A burning desire to be first with the news
Please note, the deadline for applications is Friday, March 22nd, 2024.
What’s in it For You?
Paid, three-month internship at a global news agency in our Text team
Dynamic, international, diverse working environment
Opportunity to join the biggest Reuters newsroom in Europe
Chance to collaborate with other journalists across Europe
On the job learning and training, with access to Thomson Reuters University resources
Mentoring through the internship period