Senior Editor, Markets Magazine

Senior Editor Markets Magazine

Location

London

Business Area

News and Media

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Description & Requirements

Bloomberg Media is looking for an editor to join our Markets Magazine team in New York or London. The editor will commission and edit distinctive finance-related stories and analysis to extend Markets Magazines coverage between issues and find new ways to bring Bloombergs market insights to our digital subscribers.

The successful candidate will have a keen eye for consequential stories and ideas about markets and finance as well as a knack for filtering signal from noise explaining context and connections and translating sophisticated financial ideas into clear compelling prose. Markets Magazines target audience includes finance professionals as well as sophisticated news consumers who want to understand how markets intersect with their lives and the way the world works.

Markets Magazine is

Bloombergs venue for deep analysis and narrative journalism about global finance. Along with Bloomberg Weekend City Lab Pursuits and The Mishal Husain Show its part of Bloomberg Medias Ideas & Culture group which produces premium idea-driven journalism that applies Bloombergs distinctive lens global analytical and forward-looking to the forces shaping modern life. This role will report to the editor of Markets Magazine.

Well trust you to:

• Develop new ways to deliver Bloombergs most relevant markets analysis to Bloombergs digital subscribers an intelligent global audience that includes but isnt limited to finance professionals focusing on a weekly cadence to complement both the newsrooms daily coverage and Markets Magazines print/digital editions
• Write/edit a weekly email for Bloomberg subscribers including both original and curated material
• Commission edit and occasionally write essays profiles book reviews and other idea-driven pieces about markets and finance for Bloomberg Weekend
• Recruit contributors from within Bloombergs newsroom coach reporters on writing for a broader audience and build ongoing relationships through edits that elevate their work
• Collaborate with graphics audience and video teams to build Markets Magazines presence on Bloombergs video channels
• Use the Bloomberg terminal and Bloombergs proprietary AI tools to uncover data and insights and develop novel ways of curating and delivering them

Youll need to have:

• 8 years of experience in financial journalism
• Deep understanding of finance and markets including familiarity with banking investment management stocks bonds real estate private equity credit takeovers and mergers energy and commodities economics trading central banking venture capital and consumer finance.
• Fluency in and intense curiosity about culture public affairs and the wider world that is shaped by (and shapes) markets and finance.
• Proven ability to translate sophisticated financial material into engaging and accessible language without sacrificing accuracy or precision
• Experience commissioning and editing enterprise journalism and compelling accessible markets and economic analysis for an intelligent global audience with high expectations
• Fluency across digital formats including newsletters charts and other data visualizations and short-form video
• A strong understanding of how digital audiences are evolving analytics and the digital subscription ecosystem
• A track record of collaboration with newsroom and media platform teams
• The ability to network and build relationships with reporters and editors across our large global newsroom and among freelancers
• Entrepreneurialism flexibility and a willingness to pitch in to help colleagues
• Familiarity with the Bloomberg terminal is a plus

If this sounds like you:

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