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WE ARE LOOKING FOR A NEW COLLEAGUE:
Headline News Reporter fluent in Greek – Headline News Team
YOU AND YOUR TEAM:
Reuters is seeking Greek-speaking reporters to join its real-time news operation in Gdynia, which produces headlines, news summaries and packaged news content. The reporters will have a strong focus on Greece and Cyprus.
WHY IS THIS JOB IMPORTANT?
Our team sends news alerts on listed companies across Europe in near real-time to our flagship product Eikon. We write short market moving stories. Our key clients are mostly international banks’ trading desks, hedge funds and asset managers. They use these alerts to make day-to-day trading decisions.
IN YOUR ROLE YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:
- Write headlines and news summaries accurately, quickly and with high standards of credibility, in accordance with Reuters principles and operating standards
- Search through approved sources to grasp and translate news from local language into English
- Identify market-moving figures and comments to filter out news stories from sources including electronic news releases, conferences calls, Webcasts
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO BRING?
- Fluency in Greek and English
- Strong translation skills: English→Greek and Greek→English
- 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
- Basic knowledge of multimedia journalism
- 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, work on weekends
YOU RECEIVE:
- access to our products, including Eikon, with real-time economic and stock data
- global career & growth opportunities, and friends all over the world
- training & certification offerings
- pension scheme, referral scheme, social fund bonuses and gifts
- private healthcare with Medicover and life insurance with Generali
- wellbeing scheme with Multisport Card, Weekly Fruit Day and Sport Teams
- additional 2 days off for voluntary work
- flexible working hours
- availability of professional counselling with Employee Assistance Program