Data Journalist, The Insurer, Reuters

As a Data Journalist at The Insurer (Reuters), you will:

• Use data to illuminate and identify industry trends within the insurance and re-insurance industry by using - and telling stories through - quantitative data sets.


• Identify and mine new sources of data which can inform our readership of industry professionals.


• Use this data - alongside visualisation tools - to help tell compelling stories.


• Write news, analysis and features: This role offers the opportunity to develop your writing skills in both short and long-form content across our multiple platforms.
  
  Demonstrable experience of telling stories and informing an audience through data sets.


• A proven ability to report on technical and complex issues. Please note, we do not require prior experience of reporting on the insurance industry. An interest in the insurance industry and a desire to learn how it intersects with different industries and impacts global economies is important.


• The ability to pitch ideas that are enhanced by data-driven news and analysis and a proven appetite to dig beneath the surface on specific industry themes.


• Experience of the insurance or financial services sectors is preferred but not essential


• Advanced skills in spreadsheets and SQL


• Experience in Python, R or a similar high-level language is desirable.
  
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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 that celebrate diversity and inclusion. 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.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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/Affirmative Action 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.


• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.


• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.


• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.


• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.


• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we've never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.