Senior Newswriter

Description:

The Team: The team covers U.S. banking and financial services news in English. Our journalists leverage data and reporting to deliver differentiated content to a dedicated reader base. Areas of coverage range from major financial company mergers, regulatory policy shifts and changes to competitive dynamics.

The Impact: The successful candidate will join one of the most high-profile teams in the S&P Global Market Intelligence newsroom. Senior newswriters are required to write stories from a variety sources including investor conference calls, our proprietary data, news releases, regulatory filings, company documents, equity research reports and sometimes interviews. The content we produce is read by banking executives and regulators, as well as investment bankers and other dealmakers.

What’s in it for you: You will have the opportunity to become extremely well-versed in the dynamics and issues shaping the U.S. financial institution landscape. The role provides opportunities to write articles that highlight the latest industry data and deliver the content to a captive audience of key industry stakeholders.

Responsibilities
 

• Write English-language breaking news and data-driven features stories for our real-time news platform.
• Identify and produce value-added analytical industry pieces illuminating key trends.
• Have the ability to leverage in-house and external data and other graphics to deliver valuable insight to readers.
• Collaborate with editors, reporters and data journalists, and other teams in the newsroom.
• Have strong communication skills and work well under pressure.
   

What We’re Looking For
 

• Bachelor’s degree (preferably linked to business, management, journalism, or related fields).
• Fluency in English necessary.
• Preferred qualifications include professional experience in English-language content-writing, ideally in journalism
• Exceptional writing and editing skills.
• Ability to deliver sharp, concise content to daily and weekly deadlines.
• Knowledge of journalistic best practice (AP style, libel issues, etc.).
• An affinity for analyzing numbers, using in-house data intelligence, financial reports, and other industry information.
• Knowledge of financial market & economic trend analysis
• Candidates will need to pass an in-house editing test, prior to interviews with the team.