Sport Editor, Global Pictures Desk

About this position

Working at Thomson Reuters

We have a dynamic newsroom including text, visuals, digital, polling, graphics, legal and sports journalists who collaborate to produce a compelling professional news product unavailable anywhere else. We are the first to know the news.

Our Sports Pictures Desk team ensures the speed, quality, and accuracy of delivery of sport pictures to our clients worldwide. The job also includes big events like Olympics, World Cups and World Championships for summer and winter sports.

This is an entry level full-time, desk-based role, that requires flexibility. You must be willing to work as part of a global 24/7 rotating shift system, including weekends and public holidays, with occasional night shifts.

As a photo editor you will:

- Gather images sent in from editors and photographers from around the globe in real time
- Writing captions in English quickly and accurately for our global clients.
- Work as a team with pictures, text, video and on-line colleagues to ensure integrated multimedia news coverage and production
- Fluent English, verbal and written. (Bonus points for additional languages).
- A love for all forms of journalism and an obsessive-level interest in global sport especially football.
- Ever dreamed of working for the world’s greatest multimedia team
- Unflappable interpersonal and organisational skills even when under pressure
- English language studies, Mass communication or a Journalism related degree or experience
- Experience and/or general interest in photography and/or journalism
- Competent working knowledge of Apple computers and Adobe Photoshop
- A desire to work with colleagues dedicated to the Trust Principles of independence, integrity and freedom from bias
- A love for being part of a diverse, global team

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 with an intensive training package. 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 various flexi benefit options, paid volunteering days, and medical insurance for you and your dependents.
- Newsroom — Work alongside award-winning journalists and a team who provide unmatched, award-winning coverage of the world’s most important stories.

To be considered for this role please ensure that you submit both a CV and cover letter. Your letter should detail in no more than 350 words how your previous experience would help enhance the role.

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 25,000 employees across more than 75 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 Empl