Global Audience Editor, Reuters

Job Description

Global Audience Editor, Reuters

Want to help shape how one of the world’s most trusted news organizations becomes indispensable to a new generation of readers?

Reuters is seeking a forward-thinking and highly collaborative Global Audience Editor to lead a portfolio at the center of our digital transformation and subscription strategy. This leadership role will oversee key audience-facing disciplines-including newsletters, SEO, community engagement and audience strategists-and set the strategy for growing Reuters’ global audience, deepening engagement and building lasting reader relationships.

The ideal candidate combines strong editorial instincts with a sophisticated understanding of audience behavior, platform strategy and digital storytelling. Just as important, they will be a skilled newsroom partner-working closely with editors, correspondents, visuals teams, product colleagues and newsroom leaders to shape coverage for digital audiences while reinforcing Reuters’ core journalistic mission and standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Global audience strategy: Lead and unify Reuters’ audience development strategy across social media, newsletters, search, community and audience insights to drive sustainable growth, loyalty and engagement.
• Newsroom partnership: Build trusted relationships with editors, journalists and newsroom leaders, shaping coverage plans and digital storytelling so audience considerations are embedded from the outset.
• Audience intelligence: Use audience data, performance insights and evolving reader behaviors to inform editorial decisions, identify opportunities and advise newsroom leaders on platform and engagement strategy.
• Team leadership: Manage, mentor and develop a global team of editors, strategists and platform specialists, creating a collaborative culture focused on impact, experimentation and learning.
• Direct audience relationships: Oversee newsletter strategy, optimization and segmentation and shape community engagement around major coverage, live journalism and Reuters events, including Reuters NEXT.
• Cross-functional delivery: Partner across editorial, product, visuals, video, audio and commercial teams to create cohesive audience experiences and strengthen direct relationships with readers.
• Search and innovation: Lead search engine optimization strategy in the AI age and encourage responsible experimentation with emerging platforms, formats and artificial intelligence while safeguarding Reuters’ journalistic standards.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: Significant experience leading audience, digital or editorial teams within a major newsroom or media organization.
• Audience expertise: Deep knowledge of social platforms, newsletters, search engine optimization and audience analytics, together with a strong understanding of subscriptions, reader engagement and audience growth.
• Data-informed strategy: Demonstrated ability to use audience data and performance insights to guide editorial strategy and newsroom decision-making.
• Editorial judgment: Excellent news judgment and a clear commitment to Reuters’ standards and journalistic values.
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead global teams, collaborate across time zones and coverage areas and influence stakeholders in a complex newsroom.

Preferred Qualifications

• Cross-functional experience: Experience partnering with product, visual journalism, video, audio, events or commercial teams to develop cohesive audience experiences.
• Community and live journalism: Experience building reader communities or developing engagement around live journalism and major events.
• Emerging technology: A forward-looking mindset and curiosity about emerging platforms, formats, audience behaviors and responsible artificial intelligence.

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.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 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. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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