Job Vacancy: Stock Market Reporter for Bloomberg News (Johannesburg, South Africa)

Bloomberg News is seeking an experienced stock-market reporter to be based in our Johannesburg bureau. The successful candidate will join a team of reporters and editors who have set the standard for fast, accurate and insightful coverage of equity, fixed-income and foreign-exchange news. The role requires someone with experience at a financial publication or real-time news service. The reporter will write stories on shares that are moving or trading the most, break news on companies, write up analyst reports, interview fund managers, regulators and stock market officials and propose feature stories. The ideal candidate should have experience covering equity markets and have contacts in the industry.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience is essential
• Previous financial journalism experience is essential
• Experience of working in a real-time news environment is desirable
• Knowledge of covering markets is essential
• Proven track record of writing financial stories
• Ability to write quickly and concisely under deadline pressure
• Fluent English (both written and verbal) is essential

THE COMPANY:

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 310,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 15,000 people in 192 locations around the world.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For submissions: Apply via jobs.bloomberg.com

Website: http://www.bloomberg.com/

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