Desk Editor, Reuters

Thomson Reuters; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global career opportunities

Learning & development

Paid volunteering days

Job summary

Reuters is seeking a Desk Editor to join the Global News Desk in Toronto, Canada, with responsibilities spanning breaking news, in-depth analyses, and multimedia storytelling. You will edit and curate stories for a global audience, ensuring accuracy, balance, and timely delivery across platforms.

The role requires strong copy editing, newsroom judgment, and the ability to work under pressure. You will collaborate with reporters worldwide and contribute to innovative news formats for a digital

Qualifications

• Proven copy editing and news editing skills for fast-paced stories.
• Experience optimizing stories for search (SEO) and multi-platform presentation.
• Ability to work with diverse audiences and collaborating across global teams.

Responsibilities

• Write and edit breaking news stories from around the globe at speed.
• Copy edit longer initiative stories for a global audience.
• Ensure each story is balanced with fair comment and engaging visuals.
• Collaborate with colleagues around the world to publish ahead of deadlines.
• Help drive innovation in news production and storytelling formats.

Skills

Copy editing

News editing

SEO experience

Digital multimedia

Collaboration

Tools

Newsletter editing

Job description

Reuters is looking for an ambitious Desk Editor for our fast-paced, round-the-clock Global News Desk. Expect to work alongside award-winning journalists in a global news organization long recognized for its commitment to accuracy and fairness. Play a role helping us evolve digitally to stand out from the crowd for everything from business to world events.

The role is posted for Toronto, Canada but we will consider other locations in Canada. Please note, you will be expected to work some weekend and evening shifts as part of this position.

We’re looking for an experienced journalist that’s adept at crafting and honing stories that span geographies, industries and markets; from scoops and breaking news to quick-turn analyses and insights. The position demands an understanding of the needs of Reuters’ wide audience, from financial and professional clients to the world’s biggest media organizations and digital publishers, and a willingness to help lead us to new readers.

This might be the role for you if you’re ready to experiment with new story formats and tools, working not only as a copy editor but also as a content curator who can pull together a rich package of video, pictures, graphics and text stories. Sharp headlines, ledes and nut grafs are essential. So is spotting gaps in the file and working with news editors to fill them.

We’re looking for someone that writes with precision and able to express complex ideas for specialist and general audiences alike, whilst enforcing Reuters high standards for accuracy, brevity, clarity, fair comment, impartiality and sourcing.

Reuters news is read and seen by more than a billion people every day. We are looking for an editor who can work with our reporters across the globe to produce distinctive journalism in the most compelling formats. Join us and help tell the world’s most important stories.

About The Role

As Desk Editor at Reuters, you will:

• Write and edit breaking news stories from around the globe whilst producing clean, engaging stories at speed.
• Copy edit longer initiative stories for a global audience that may take a few days.
• Ensure every story is balanced and includes fair comment, alongside engaging visuals for the stories you’re editing.
• Collaborate with colleagues around the world
• Help drive innovation for news production and new ways of telling stories

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Desk Editor, if at Reuters if you:

• Have demonstrable experience as a reporter or production editor (a track record in business or finance is a plus but by no means necessary).
• Can write accurately and at speed. We’re looking for someone with superb copy editing skills which will include working with complex and legally and socially sensitive stories.
• Have strong digital and multimedia expertise and familiarity with the needs of a digital audience; experience optimizing stories for search (SEO) and other platforms, as well as an understanding of analytics are a plus
• Possess the ability to cover topics for multiple audiences
• Have strong news judgment and ability to shape a story by asking smart questions and challenging premises
• Can remain calm under pressure, with the ability to make quick and sound decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Good communication skills, strong team ethic, diplomacy and collaboration
• Experience editing newsletters a plus

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 organizations, 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 organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, 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.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 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. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.

Job Criteria

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing
• Industries: Financial Services, Legal Services, and IT Services and IT Consulting