Online Sub-Editor

Online Sub-Editor - Reuters

This position will be based in Cairo.

Do you want to use your editing and linguistic skills to their full potential? Looking to work in a fast-paced newsroom, translating stories from English to Arabic? If so, we want to hear from you.

Reuters is seeking an Online Sub-Editor with excellent editing and translating skills and strong news judgement to join the Arabic Service in Cairo. The successful candidate will be able to work fast, under pressure, without compromising on accuracy, translating from English to Arabic.

About The Role

As Online Sub-Editor at Reuters, you will:

• Proofread and copy-edit Arabic content to ensure clarity, coherence, and correctness.
• Select and curate images and videos that enhance the storytelling and engage our clients.
• Translate and edit all kinds of stories.
• Demonstrate flexibility in working hours to accommodate news cycles and breaking stories.
• Work under pressure in a very fast-paced environment.
• Ensure all content meets our ethical guidelines and free from bias.
• Have a sharp eye on regional events.
  
  
  

About You

To be our Online Sub-Editor, you will likely have:

• Excellent command of both Arabic and English.
• Agility and ability to embrace change.
• Sharp news judgment and an ability to prioritize tasks.
• Solid knowledge of major events in the region.
• Ambition and quick thinking.
• Appetite for learning different skills and adapting to new tools and modern technology.
  
  
  

Please Note: The deadline to apply is Wednesday 21st August 2024. Early applications are encouraged.

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:

• Global Career: As a global company, we can offer a truly international career and progression opportunities
• Learning & Development: On the job learning and coaching. We also have a dedicated training team focused on the continuous development of our journalists
• Benefits: We offer competitive salary packages and market leading benefits including paid volunteering days
• Perks: Work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and a team who provide unmatched, award-winning coverage of the world’s most important stories.
  
  
  

About Reuters

Reuters is the world’s largest multimedia news provider. Founded in 1851, it is committed to the Trust Principles of independence, integrity and freedom from bias. With unmatched coverage in over 16 languages, and reaching billions of people worldwide every day, Reuters provides trusted intelligence that powers humans and machines to make smart decisions. It supplies business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers.

Reuters: The Real World in Real Time

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.

Accessibility

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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