Breaking News Correspondent, Sub-Saharan Africa

Required qualifications

• At least one year’s experience in a fast-paced breaking news environment, demonstrating a track record of working in a diverse newsroom and excelling under pressure.
  
• Skill at processing complex information quickly.
  
• Ability to filter information from multiple news sources including social media to identify and report on key political and economic developments, and viral trends across Sub-Saharan Africa.
  
• Fast, succinct and accurate writing under intense time pressure.
  
• Working knowledge of the region’s currency and stock markets, and how they are driven by moves elsewhere in global financial markets.
  
• Fluent English; other languages (e.g. French, Spanish or Portuguese) a plus.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of the political, economic and business landscape across multiple Sub-Saharan African markets, including experience reporting from or working across the region.
  
• Experience working in an integrated newsroom environment, collaborating effectively with text, video and pictures teams to deliver fast, coordinated and visually compelling coverage of breaking news events.
  
• Familiarity with digital newsgathering tools, verification techniques, social media monitoring and emerging AI-enabled newsroom workflows used to identify, report and develop breaking stories at speed.
  

Key Responsibilities

• Become a key player in Reuters breaking news team, producing real‑time headlines, newsbreaks, updates, sidebars, and visually-driven human interest stories.
  
• Cover major breaking stories from Southern Africa and other Sub‑Saharan African countries, winning timings and making our stories stand out against our main competitors.
  
• Collaborate closely with text and visuals colleagues across the region, showing sharp news judgment.