Fact-Checking Editor
Reuters is seeking an experienced editor to take part in our fact-checking project and support the high volume of editing demands from our global fact-checking output.
The ideal candidate can effortlessly take the lead on editing or assigning stories as well as juggle the demands of both editorial standards and business development.
This hybrid working position will be based in our newsroom in Sydney.
About the Role
In this opportunity as a Fact Checking Editor, you will:
- Proactively edit articles while fostering a positive, collaborative and inclusive work environment
- Enforce Reuters’ editorial and ethical standards, adhering to style, guidelines and policies laid out by the Reuters Trust Principles and the Reuters Handbook of Journalists
- Show attention to detail by ensuring stories meet Reuters’ standards for accuracy, speed, balance and clarity
- Support fact-check article production and build closer ties with the broader Reuters news file
- Mentor early-career journalists to deepen their knowledge and sharpen their coverage and verification skills
- Collaborate with journalists across regional teams to develop fact-checking articles
- Meet Reuters Fact Check deliverables outlined in our fact-checking partnerships
- Explore latest digital verification techniques and tools
- Produce fact-checking articles, verification notes or explainers when required
About you
You’re a fit for the role of Fact Checking Editor, if you have the following required qualifications:
- At least six years of international news writing and/or editing experience
- Demonstrated experience editing under tight deadlines and sharing constructive feedback with journalists
- Proven track record of writing and/or editing clean, accurate news copy under tight deadlines in a newsroom
- Show a proven interest in covering misinformation or fact-checking
- Outstanding news judgement
- The ability to identify emerging trends online and misinformation
- Curiosity to learn and openness to feedback. Enthusiastic about collaborating with colleagues across different beats and cultures.
- Fluency in a European or East Asian language is a plus.
- Prior experience in OSINT or fact-checking would be a clear advantage.
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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.
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