Applications call for a Reuters News Summer Internship Programme 2021. Reuters is seeking ambitious, energetic graduates and/or final year students with excellent language skills to join its real-time news operation in Gdansk, Poland, for a three-month internship.

Successful candidates will be immersed in a fast paced, international environment, working directly with editorial teams that publish alerts on major corporate news developments; write short stories about major companies in Europe’s biggest economies; produce online packages used by global media customers; and translate international news. Applicants must speak fluent English and have strong conversational skills in at least one additional European language. They will bring a strong work ethic, a readiness to learn quickly and an obsession with winning.

Benefits

• Paid, three-month internship at a global news agency in our Text team.
• Dynamic, international, diverse working environment.
• Opportunity to join the biggest Reuters newsroom in Europe.
• Chance to collaborate with other journalists across Europe.
• On the job learning and training, with access to Thomson Reuters University resources.
• Mentoring through the internship period

Learning Outcomes

In this Reuters News Summer Internship Programme, candidates will how

• Reuters is the fastest news agency in the world, delivering market-moving news to traders, investors, and consumers globally within seconds.
• Work in a time-pressure environment that requires strong judgment, exceptional attention to detail, and fast reflexes to identify key information from a financial statement.
• News events impact financial markets, using the leading professional financial terminal, Refinitiv’s Eikon, to monitor prices and analyze developments.
• Plan coverage of major corporate earnings releases and economic data indicators such as GDP and inflation.
• Create multimedia packages for Reuters News online clients.
• Translate market reports, general, political, economic, and company news stories from English at speed (into Russian, Polish, Turkish, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese)

Criteria

• Fluent English and very good knowledge of one other European language.
• A strong interest in journalism and/or financial markets.
• Excellent writing and communication skills; translation skills a strong plus.
• Attention to detail, comfort with handling data and facts accurately and quickly.
• Eagerness to learn and collaborate with others.
• A burning desire to be first with the news.

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