Editor, Financial News, India

Reuters is seeking an exceptional, experienced newsroom leader to oversee its expanding coverage of business, finance and markets news within India, informing and delivering on a strategy to become the preeminent source of information and insight for financial professionals. This new role, reporting to the Regional Editor for South Asia, will combine classic on-the-file newsediting of the biggest stories of the day – delivering outstanding coverage for both a local and global audience – with a strategic focus for ensuring that the overall service is fulfilling the evolving needs of the local customer base, reached via LSEG Refinitiv’s platforms. It will also require deftly balancing the need for consistent, comprehensive coverage of markets and corporate news with a steady diet of exclusive, differentiated coverage with relevance and impact. On a day to day basis, you will be working directly with corporate finance and market reporting teams in the Mumbai bureau, plus coordinating with reporters and editors in New Delhi and Bangalore, who will provide up to the minute coverage of government policy, regulation and corporate news. In this capacity you must be a positive, collaborative editor able to coach and mentor, as well as lead from the front on a big story when needed. When merited by the story, you will work seamlessly with global editors in Singapore, London and New York.