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Hub Editor, MENA, Reuters

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13.9% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Thomson Reuters postings stay open a median of 19 days.

Share of postings closed within
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  2. 4.7%3 days
  3. 13.9%7 days
  4. 22.4%14 days
  5. 38.1%30 days
  6. 59.0%60 days
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Job Description

The Hub Editor role requires a sharp, decisive and collaborative editorial leader to support the Breaking News & Daily Editor in managing the daily news file across all formats; text, video, pictures and other storytelling tools. This role is central to setting editorial priorities for the day, coordinating coverage, and ensuring the file is fast, accurate, and compelling.

The successful candidate will act as the daily traffic cop for news flow, helping to shape the pace and direction of coverage. They will decide which lines to develop as trunk, including directing string for trunk stories, or spot stories versus sidebars, anticipate legal, ethical questions, and ensure that coverage is aligned with Reuters’ editorial standards and client needs.

They will work closely with the Breaking & Daily News Editor to coordinate coverage across formats and platforms. They will be expected to bring strong news judgement, excellent communication skills, and the ability to prioritise in a fast-moving environment. They will also need to anticipate how stories will develop and what clients will need next.

Key Responsibilities

  • Daily editorial priorities: Set priorities in coordination with the Breaking and Daily News Editor. Together with the Executive Producer anticipate the next move in major stories and drive coverage ahead.
  • Story development: Decide, in conjunction with bureau chiefs, which news lines to develop as trunk or spot stories, which to handle as sidebars, and in which medium; direct string for trunk stories. Maximise the value of field reporting across formats.
  • News-flow coordination: Act as the traffic cop for the daily news file, ensuring coverage is timely, coherent and well prioritised. Make fast editorial calls as stories develop and priorities shift.
  • Editorial risk: Anticipate legal and ethical considerations as stories develop and escalate issues appropriately.
  • Cross-format integration: Support integrated breaking news coverage across text, video, pictures and other storytelling formats. Bring the right formats together around the biggest stories.
  • Client impact: Ensure coverage meets the needs of Reuters’ diverse client base.
  • Innovation: Help drive smart ideas and innovation in daily coverage.
  • Breaking news excellence: Deliver the Reuters Breaking News Drill across assets to win the story for clients.

Required Qualifications

  • Regional expertise: Strong knowledge of the Middle East and North Africa and proven experience of hostile and challenging environments
  • Breaking news experience: Proven experience running a compelling breaking news file.
  • Editorial judgement: Strong news judgement and the ability to make decisive, sound decisions under pressure.
  • Coordination and communication: Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to prioritise and coordinate coverage in a fast-paced environment.
  • Client and platform knowledge: Strong understanding of the needs of multiple platforms and client types.
  • Writing and editing: Strong writing and editing skills across a range of news stories.
  • Editorial values: Demonstrated commitment to the Reuters Trust Principles of independence, integrity and freedom from bias.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Major news leadership: Proven track record leading major breaking news, elections, conflicts or disasters. Demonstrated ability to coordinate coverage across multiple bureaux and field teams.
  • Video and cross-format knowledge: Understanding of video journalism, its importance to agency clients and the requirements of cross-format coverage.
  • Newsroom technology: Strong technical understanding of new technology and its use to improve the speed and impact of coverage. Familiarity with AI tools to accelerate research, verification, production and news workflows.
  • People development: A track record of mentoring and developing talent.

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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.

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

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