Visuals Journalist, Uk

**Visuals Journalist, UK & Ireland**

**Reuters** is looking for a talented video journalist to join the UK & Ireland team.

**About the Role**

As **Visuals Journalist, UK & Ireland** at **Reuters**, you will:

- Work closely with the bureau to produce high-quality multimedia stories in a fast-moving business for our client database of more than 1,000 broadcasters and hundreds of digital outlets around the world. You'll also work with hundreds of print and digital pictures clients.
- Shoot, write and edit a variety of stories, centred on the UK and Ireland, working within tight deadlines.
- Use your excellent organisational skills and flexibility to adapt to the inevitably fast-changing rhythm of a news organisation's day.
- Combine your ability to break news and tell stories with your innovative nature to make a substantial contribution to the debate about how we cover our stories, what elements are needed and how they perform.
- Tackle stories from a diversity of viewpoints, experiences and perspectives.

**About You**

You're a fit for the role of **Visuals Journalist, UK & Ireland **at **Reuters** if you have:

- An excellent news judgment, with a clear editorial vision and an understanding of what makes a good visual story.
- Advanced camera and video editing skills, with the ability to shoot and produce basic news edits against very tight deadlines.
- The ability to produce tight, well-written accurate news copy to deadline and react quickly to breaking news, offering live cover as appropriate and taking an active role on daily planning for coverage.
- Willingness to work both alone and with a wider collaborative team, with the ability to travel at short notice to major international news stories, including hostile environments.
- A full, UK driving license
- Thorough understanding of the latest digital video technologies for filming, editing, transmitting and sharing.
- Ability to quickly and proactively source UGC and other 3rd party content, especially for breaking news
- A passion to uphold Reuters Trust principles of independence, integrity and freedom from bias

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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
- ** 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.

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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