Graphics editor – visual journalism

This hybrid posture will report to our visuals editor, primarily based in London.

Are you a visible journalist? Want to use your innovative acumen and reporting capabilities to address breaking intercontinental tales? If so, this purpose in Reuters’ award-winning graphics group might be the part for you.

Reuters is seeking for a visible journalist to sign up for our award-successful graphics workforce as portion of our EMEA desk. Operating alongside our global lender of graphics builders, designers and editors, you will pitch, report, style, create and publish graphics internet pages, data visualizations, multimedia offers and other kinds of visible storytelling masking the EMEA area. Your do the job will be showcased on our web page and will be featured throughout our world-wide media clients’ digital platforms.

About the position

As our graphics editor – visible journalism, you will:

• Pitch and report your have visual tales and provide incisive, nicely-investigated charts, maps and other visualizations to accompany our newsroom’s reporting.
• Function across a wide scale of jobs, from brief turn graphics that hold tempo with every day headlines to explanatory or analytical do the job that presents broader context to the newest news, you will work equally independently and collaboratively with the broader graphics workforce.
• Get the job done on long-expression and limited-term jobs. Some of the get the job done will movement working day-to-working day other jobs will span months. We like that variation and are wanting for somebody who’s snug balancing front- and again-burner initiatives collectively. 
• Report across a vast vary of topics in the EMEA region such as finance, economics, environmental science, politics, sports, lifestyle and whatsoever else our readers want to know.
• You will get the most effective thought of the range of function this position can comprise by leafing via our back again catalogue on reuters.com/graphics. If you can see oneself operating on some of all those parts, this might be the position for you.

About you

You are a suit for the position of graphics editor – visual journalism if you:

• Have demonstrable practical experience of doing work as a visible journalist.
• Enjoy locating unique tales in data and a expertise for translating this into compelling visuals that correctly spotlight what is vital for a reader to understand.
• Are transparent, can course of action a establishing a story from an idea to a released short article and are a savvy researcher who can resource the info and info that direct to wonderful graphics.
• Are comfortable experimenting with new tactics to explain to the news. We publish on the world wide web, so a strong grasp of fundamentals like HTML, CSS and primary JavaScript will be essential to your success here. From there, there is loads of assistance to keep on producing your technical competencies on-the-occupation for whichever your reporting desires.
• Delight in learning new expertise to build the very best perform. Our personal set of instruments for visible storytelling is regularly evolving, from graphics layout tools like Adobe Illustrator to a litany of open up-source JavaScript libraries, to GIS software and statistical programming languages, to satellite and OSINT imagery, movie and movement graphics editors, 3D modelling and a lot more.
• We are especially intrigued in understanding what instruments you use and, specially, how you go further than the set menu of chart and map styles fundamental charting instruments present to create unique visual customized to your storytelling.
• Want to add to and be element of a optimistic ecosystem. Diversity of viewpoint is a little something we seriously worth, so tell us who you are and what expertise and strengths you will provide to our workforce.

Remember to Notice: Completed apps ought to be submitted by 23:59 (GMT) on Sunday 12 March 2023. Make sure you include things like a sample of your do the job (2-3 parts optimum) within just your CV.

What is in it for you?

At Reuters Graphics we are proud of the get the job done we do and have been recognized amongst the ideal in the enterprise. We are just as very pleased of our motivation to developing our staff. In addition, the Reuters newsroom operates in 200 places all-around the entire world and provides news in 16 languages. Our journalists come from at the very least 86 nations around the world and converse a lot more than 40 languages.

You will be part of our inclusive society of planet-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and skilled growth by way of:

• Hybrid do the job model: At this time the greater part of our staff members are performing inside of a hybrid setting consisting of in-workplace and distant get the job done, and next area COVID-19 bylaws and recommendations.
• Society: Globally recognized and award-successful name for equality, diversity and inclusion, versatility, work-everyday living equilibrium, and much more
• Wellbeing: Complete reward options versatile and supportive positive aspects for perform-lifestyle equilibrium: enterprise-huge Mental Overall health Day Off Headspace app subscription retirement, discounts, tuition reimbursement, and staff incentive packages resources for mental, bodily, and economical wellbeing
• Studying and progress: LinkedIn Finding out entry internal Expertise Marketplace with alternatives to get the job done on jobs cross-organization 10 Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking
• Social affect: Eight personnel-driven Enterprise Useful resource Teams two paid volunteer days every year Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for community and international influence
• Reason driven operate: We have a superpower that we have hardly ever talked about with as much pleasure as we really should – we are one particular of the only companies on the planet that assists its buyers go after justice, fact and transparency. Together, with the specialists and establishments we serve, we assist uphold the rule of legislation, switch the wheels of commerce, catch lousy actors, report the specifics, and provide dependable, impartial info to individuals all about the environment.