Financial Graphics Journalist
Reuters Graphics is looking for a Financial Graphics Reporter to create clear and compelling visual stories related to business, finance and economics. You will be part of a global team of creative and collaborative financial graphics journalists.
You'll join an award-winning team of journalists spread across the world, of which the Financial Graphics Team is one key part. We're a diverse team of journalists who are also designers, coders, illustrators, cartographers and editors. We prize innovation, creativity and collaboration above speed and we believe that people do their best work when treated with flexibility and empathy.
About the Role
As a Financial Graphics Reporter at Reuters you will:
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Pitch and work on data-rich and visually compelling stories related to economics, business or finance.
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Work closely with writers, editors and other graphics journalists around the globe.
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Contribute to breaking news coverage across business, economics and financial beats.
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Develop your skills as a Financial Graphics Reporter by working with the wider team. We're looking for someone that's particularly interested in learning new skills and partnering with experienced journalists to add visually compelling media to key news stories.
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Be a kind and thoughtful colleague who contributes positively to team culture and initiatives.
About You
You're a fit for the role of Financial Graphics Reporter at Reuters if you have:
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An interest in finance, economics, business and their intersections with other coverage areas (politics, the environment, technology, etc.).
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Comfort working with simple datasets in Excel or Google Sheets
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Proficiency in creating graphics without the use of off-the-shelf charting tools (e.g. making graphics in Adobe Illustrator and/or with HTML and Javascript and/or other methods).
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Demonstrated understanding of basic information design principles.
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Demonstrated ability to exercise judgement when it comes to displaying datasets and understanding their limitations.
Please submit or link to two or three samples of work (can be from college/university, a personal project or from a prior position). We're particularly interested in seeing any projects showcasing your experience of any of the following:
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Ability to use Adobe Illustrator.
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Illustration skills.
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Front end web development skills
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Experience/ability with map-making software such as QGIS
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Experience/ability with programmatic data manipulation and charting skills in languages such as R or Python.
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A background in data science or statistics.
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Note - we don't expect you to have all of the above skills! Any one or more of the above is sufficient for this task.
Applications close Sunday 16th March 2025. Early applications are encouraged.
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What’s in it For You?
Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:
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Industry-Leading Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
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Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
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Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
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Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.
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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.
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Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
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.
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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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