Sub Editor, Global Pictures Desk

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest international multimedia news provider reaching more than one billion people every day. Reuters provides trusted business, financial, national, and international news to professionals via Thomson Reuters desktops, the world's media organizations, and directly to consumers at Reuters.com.

Our Global Pictures Desk team ensures the quality, accuracy and speed of delivery of news pictures to our clients worldwide. We have a dynamic newsroom including video, text, and graphics journalists collaborating to produce a compelling professional news product unavailable anywhere else. We are the first to know the news.

Join our team! Reuters is looking for enthusiastic candidates with fluent English and a sharp eye for detail who can effortlessly sift through thousands of news photos contributed daily by our photographers. You will join our diverse global team editing the award-winning news pictures service from our location in Mexico. In your role, you will contribute to the daily news pictures file.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Sub Editor, Global Pictures Desk you will:

• Using the skills, we will teach and personal initiative you will gather news images sent in from photographers from around the globe.

• You will research and edit photos, writing captions in English quickly and accurately for speedy delivery to our global clients.

• You will maintain close operational links between our pictures, text, video and on-line operations to guarantee integrated news coverage and production.

• You will edit and process live pictures from many major news, sport and entertainment events.

About You

You’re a fit for the role if your background includes:

• A degree in English, mass communication, journalism, or a related field.
• A passion for news and news photography/visual journalism; experience in either is a plus.
• Solid knowledge of global and regional current affairs.
• Strong news judgment and the ability to identify breaking news quickly.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and composure under pressure.
• The ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, inclusive, high‑performing collaborative multinational team.
• Commitment to follow the company’s ethical guidelines and editorial integrity
• Flexibility to work a global 24/7 rotating shift schedule, including weekends, public holidays, and occasional night shifts.
• Experience or interest in photography and/or journalism.
• Competence using Apple computers and Adobe Photoshop.
• Familiarity with the Microsoft Office suite.

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through: 

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

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

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: company-wide Mental Health Day Off; Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing 

• 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: Eight 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.

Location: CDMX

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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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