Middle East & North Africa Editor

PowerToFly; Dubai; On-site; AED 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global news agency is seeking an experienced newsroom leader to oversee editorial operations in the MENA region. The ideal candidate will manage bureaus across multiple cities, ensuring timely and high-quality news coverage while mentoring journalists. Responsibilities include driving innovative storytelling, collaborating with teams, and representing the agency externally. Proficiency in Arabic is a plus, with a strong focus on leadership and decision-making skills essential for success in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Global Career progression opportunities

Ongoing learning and coaching

Competitive benefits packages

Qualifications

• Proven senior editorial experience in a global news organisation.
• Deep understanding of regional story and global client needs.
• Ability to manage a file potentially beyond personal expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the regional news file across all formats.
• Drive coverage that sets the agenda for global audiences.
• Ensure safety of staff working in close coordination with editorial safety team.

Skills

Excellent news judgement

Leadership and people management

Strong planning and organisation

Innovation in news formats

Job description

Reuters is seeking a highly motivated and experienced newsroom leader to run a unified editorial team for the Middle East & North Africa, overseeing newsgathering operations in text, video and pictures. In this role, you will lead journalists across a volatile region to deliver fast, high-quality breaking news as well as ambitious, agenda-setting coverage.

In the role, you will oversee bureaus including Dubai, Istanbul, Beirut, Jerusalem and Baghdad as well as a network of staff journalists and freelancers further afield, often in dangerous environments. You will have experience dealing with sensitive security issues and understand the risks of deploying journalists into the region’s hot spots.

You will be responsible for setting news priorities for Reuters client groups worldwide, including London Stock Exchange Group customers, broadcasters, digital publishers and Reuters’ own news platforms. You will ensure coverage of the region resonates with global audiences and adopts diverse storytelling approaches to produce compelling journalism.

You will be a strategic thinker and hands‑on leader who can inspire teams, drive innovation, and uphold Reuters’ Trust Principles. You will also help shape editorial strategy, mentor younger journalists and contribute to newsroom transformation initiatives.

Proficiency in Arabic would be a distinct advantage.

About the Role

• Lead and manage the regional news file across all formats, ensuring editorial prioritisation.
• Drive coverage that sets the agenda for global audiences.
• Deliver fast, accurate breaking news while developing deeper enterprise and explanatory journalism.
• Champion cross‑format storytelling, integrating text, video, pictures, into compelling narratives.
• Manage staff safety, working in close coordination with the editorial safety team.
• Collaborate closely with senior producers, editors, and newsroom leaders globally to shape coverage and strategy.
• Cultivate a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement in storytelling.
• Understand the grammar and cues of both written and visual journalism; appreciate what success looks like across mediums, products and platforms.
• Recruit, mentor, and manage diverse teams across multiple bureaus, including in challenging environments.
• Represent Reuters to external parties in the region, including governments.
• Internally, represent the region in global editorial planning and contribute to newsroom transformation initiatives.
• Ensure high editorial standards and alignment with Reuters Trust Principles of independence, integrity, and freedom from bias.

About You

• Excellent news judgement and decision‑making under pressure.
• Proven senior editorial experience in a global news organisation with high level leadership and people management skills.
• The ability to leverage the skills of others to manage a file potentially beyond your own experience/expertise.
• Deep understanding of regional story and global client needs.
• Strong planning, organisational, and communication skills.
• Ability to drive innovation, and experience working in different news formats.
• Track record of developing talent and promoting inclusion and belonging.

The application deadline is Friday, January 30th, 2026. Please note that we review applications on a rolling basis, so early submission is strongly 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.
• Industry Competitive 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 organisations, industry events and directly to consumers.

About Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organisations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialised software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to keep informed and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

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. 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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