Senior Energy Correspondent, Reuters

Thomson Reuters; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Thomson Reuters seeks a Senior Energy Correspondent in London to cover global energy markets. The role requires breaking news on international energy flows and collaboration with teams on complex stories. Ideal candidates will have extensive energy industry experience and exceptional reporting skills.

Benefits

Competitive salary packages

Paid volunteering days

Access to learning and development

Work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists

Qualifications

• At least five years of experience covering energy, preferably in crude or fuel market.
• Proven ability to develop deep sourcing and break news.
• Strong news judgment with the ability to explain complex subjects.

Responsibilities

• Cover global energy markets and provide top-quality market coverage.
• Collaborate with the global energy team on breaking stories.
• Generate and execute original ideas for initiative stories.

Skills

Breaking news coverage

Reporting and writing

Data usage in stories

Source building

Education

Degree in journalism or relevant field

Job description

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Senior Energy Correspondent, Reuters, London

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Client:

Thomson Reuters

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

22.06.2025

Expiry Date:

06.08.2025

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Job Description:

Reuters is seeking an experienced correspondent to cover global energy markets from London. The successful candidate should have superb contacts with trading companies, energy majors, regulators, investors and policy makers to break news, identify and write about industry changes, and generate regular analysis along with ambitious, investigative stories.

This is a position for a reporter who can move effortlessly from covering physical cash markets, spot news, and long-term enterprise stories on international energy flows, trading strategies, boardroom upheaval and investment trends across the sector.

You will deliver breaking news on oil production, consumption, transportation, storage, exports, imports and energy policy. The candidate should have strong team skills and collaborate in breaking stories with reporters from the wider global energy team across subjects ranging from OPEC, sanctions and the oil majors to the energy transition, climate change and renewable energy. You will join a strong, competitive reporting squad that has a hard-won reputation for producing agenda-setting coverage for both our core energy and commodity market participants, as well as for our media, investor and financial professional audience

Attention to detail, a proven track record of source building and exclusive reporting and ability or aptitude to learn to use Excel and proficiency with graphics are required.

About the role:

As our London-based Senior Energy Correspondent , you will:

• Provide top-quality industry spot news, market coverage.
• Generate and execute original ideas for initiative stories.
• Be a strong all-round journalist comfortable breaking news and filing at speed as well as working on long-form pieces.
• Work closely with the global energy team.

About you:

To be our Senior Energy Reporter , you will ideally have:

• At least five years of experience covering energy, preferably with experience in physical crude or fuel market coverage.
• A proven ability to develop deep sourcing and break news.
• A track record of reporting and writing both long-form stories.
• Strong news judgment, ability to write with speed, clarity and accuracy.
• The ability to clearly explain complex industry subjects to a wide audience as well as to a financially sophisticated reader.
• Experience using data and analytical tools in story telling.

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

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.

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 26,000 employees across more than 70 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 Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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.

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