Digital Director, Reuters

Thomas Reuters; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Reuters is seeking a visionary Digital Director to lead its digital news team. The successful candidate will have significant experience in news leadership and a deep understanding of audience engagement strategies. This role involves setting editorial direction, developing innovative storytelling techniques, and collaborating with various teams to enhance digital offerings.

Benefits

Global Career Opportunities

Learning & Development Programs

Competitive Salary Packages

Paid Volunteering Days

Work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists

Qualifications

• Substantial experience as a senior news leader.
• Track record of delivering innovative digital news offerings.
• Expertise in using analytical tools for audience engagement.

Responsibilities

• Set long term editorial direction for digital offerings.
• Develop audience engagement strategy to drive subscriptions.
• Lead and manage the editorial team.

Skills

News Judgment

Audience Engagement

Digital Storytelling

Communication

Leadership

Education

Experience in Digital News Leadership

Job description

Digital Director - Reuters

We expect the successful candidate to be based in our New York City bureau.

Reuters are looking for a visionary digital leader to run our digital news team. Having recently moved to a subscription model for our news app and website, we want to strengthen Reuters digital news products so they are indispensable to our subscribers around the world.

As our new Digital Director, you will have significant news leadership experience in a digital environment as well as a deep understanding of how to build a subscriber audience around news. You will have top-notch news judgment, innovative ideas, and a proven ability to deliver at speed. In addition, you will know how to work across a digital organization, including with product, development and commercial teams. And finally, like our subscribers, you will be passionate about fact-based and independent news and have an endless curiosity about the world, from Mumbai to Milan, from technology to trade, and from the G20 to the Olympics.

About the Role

As Digital Director at Reuters, you will:

• Set the long term editorial direction for Reuters digital offerings with specific focus on developing content for consumer audiences across our websites, apps, mobile and social platforms

• Further sharpen our audience engagement strategy to drive subscriptions

• Develop new ways of storytelling and delivering news

• Work with colleagues to integrate AI into our app and site and other products to better serve our audience while maintaining Reuters highest editorial standards

• Lead, motivate, and manage the editorial team

• Collaborate with other senior editorial leaders to ensure our wider newsroom is delivering for our digital customer

• Ensure all content that is produced adheres to the Reuters Trust Principles of fair, objective coverage of the news

• Work closely with the commercial, product, technology and sales teams to deliver strong customer experiences and business results

• Act as a key voice in product initiatives for digital platforms and editorial tools

About You

You’re a good fit for the role of Digital Director if you have:

• Substantial experience as a senior news leader, delivering innovative digital news offerings

• Exemplary news judgment and an ability to take editorial decisions quickly and independently

• A track record of delivering change in a newsroom environment and being an advocate for digital storytelling

• Wide-ranging knowledge of international affairs and business news with an understanding of what kinds of stories appeal to both general consumers and prosumers

• A keen sense of audience

• A track record of successfully generating and commissioning original digital journalism using new story-telling techniques with particular focus on video and mobile

• Expertise in using analytical tools to drive an audience engagement strategy and support editorial decision making

• Excellent writing and editing skills, able to meet the high standards set by Reuters but with an eye toward maximum impact online

• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, able to establish rapport with key senior stakeholders across and outside Reuters

• A comprehensive understanding of current markets, trends and issues within the media industry

Please Note: Completed applications must be submitted by 23:59 on Sunday 8 June 2025. Early applications are encouraged.

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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.

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