Reporter opportunities in the Middle East
Job Requisition Number: 34827
Europe Middle East and Africa
Dubai - ARE
Due to continued expansion, Bloomberg News is seeking Reporters to cover a range of beats from our Middle East bureaus. The successful candidate must be able to perform under pressure to meet real-time deadlines, write market- moving headlines and breaking news stories on business and finance topics ranging from company earnings, market reports, news about mergers and acquisitions, covering the world of money in all of its forms.
You need to have the ability to identify stories worth expanding on, and work with the reporters on your beat to build on these stories. Overall responsibilities include attending press briefings and evening events, monitoring other media and writing spot news as well as feature stories.
Requirements
- Previous financial journalism experience is essential.
- Experience of working in a real-time news environment is desirable.
- A bachelors degree or equivalent work experience is desirable as is a specific journalism qualification.
- You should speak fluent English and Arabic.
- Ability to generate your own ideas and work independently.
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.
Legal Terms:
Promoting Equal Opportunities
Bloomberg employs over 15,000 employees in over 192 offices around the world. It is a company that is committed to an ongoing policy of attracting, retaining, developing and promoting the most qualified individuals without regard to race, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation or disability. All staff are treated in a non-discriminatory manner in respect of all aspects of employment.
As part of Bloomberg's ongoing drive for diversity and inclusion Bloomberg works with a variety of organisations to source interns from a variety of backgrounds. These include (from time to time):
- Bangladesh Football Association
- Career Academies
- WORLDwrite
- Kids Company
- ReachOut
- Employability
- Body + Soul
- Rugby Portobello Trust
- Blind in Business
Bloomberg also works with Blind in Business to encourage those who are visually impaired to apply and Bloomberg has joined MyPlus Consulting's disability champions scheme in order to focus on recruiting and retaining individuals with disabilities. Bloomberg further seeks to identify and address areas of under-representation by running targeted forums which have recently included Women in technology and Black and ethnic minorities. The requirement for these types of forum are reviewed on a regular basis.
Internally in order to promote equal opportunities, numerous soft skill development opportunities are available on Bloomberg University (BU) to all employees. Available courses include mandatory harassment and discrimination awareness training for employees and managers, mandatory interview and hiring training for anyone involved in the recruitment process to ensure that a fair and consistent process is followed, and mandatory grievance training for all members of Bloomberg's grievance committee. Those chosen to be Team Leaders also undertake a 15 hour 'Leadership Fundamentals' course, which specifically covers diversity and inclusion in a team context. These training sessions are further supported by a wealth of policies contained in Bloomberg's Employee Resource Guide available on Bloomberg's intranet.
In the course of submitting your application, you will be providing Bloomberg with your personal information. You consent to Bloomberg using that information for the purpose of considering your suitability for employment, as well as for general statistical analysis and reporting purposes, including candidate activity and demographic reports. Bloomberg will process your information in compliance with applicable laws on data protection.
If we do not employ you at this time, you agree that we may retain and use the information that we obtain as part of your application process so as to be able to consider your application later if a suitable position becomes available and, if appropriate, to refer back to this application if you apply again. If at any time you no longer want Bloomberg to consider your application, please let us know at Careers- Feedback, in which case your information will be stored securely for no more than one year from the date of notification and access to it will only be made if and to the extent necessary for legal and regulatory purposes.
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-to consider your suitability for employment;
-for general statistical analysis and reporting purposes; or
-to comply with legal or regulatory obligations.
Where required, your information may be disclosed to law enforcement, regulatory or other government agencies, or third parties where necessary to comply with legal or regulatory obligations or requests.
If you are offered a position of employment at Bloomberg, such offer and continued employment is contingent on the satisfactory results of both reference checks and a background search.
You are responsible for ensuring that the information you submit is accurate and up-to-date. You may review, update or request removal of your personal applicant/profile information at any time using this site or by contacting Careers- Feedback. At the same time, by clicking 'I Agree' and submitting your application, you agree that we may use third parties to verify your information. However, we will not seek any additional data from those third parties without your explicit prior consent.
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Job Requisition Number: 34827
Europe Middle East and Africa
Dubai - ARE
Due to continued expansion, Bloomberg News is seeking Reporters to cover a range of beats from our Middle East bureaus. The successful candidate must be able to perform under pressure to meet real-time deadlines, write market- moving headlines and breaking news stories on business and finance topics ranging from company earnings, market reports, news about mergers and acquisitions, covering the world of money in all of its forms.
You need to have the ability to identify stories worth expanding on, and work with the reporters on your beat to build on these stories. Overall responsibilities include attending press briefings and evening events, monitoring other media and writing spot news as well as feature stories.
Requirements
- Previous financial journalism experience is essential.
- Experience of working in a real-time news environment is desirable.
- A bachelors degree or equivalent work experience is desirable as is a specific journalism qualification.
- You should speak fluent English and Arabic.
- Ability to generate your own ideas and work independently.
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.
Legal Terms:
Promoting Equal Opportunities
Bloomberg employs over 15,000 employees in over 192 offices around the world. It is a company that is committed to an ongoing policy of attracting, retaining, developing and promoting the most qualified individuals without regard to race, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation or disability. All staff are treated in a non-discriminatory manner in respect of all aspects of employment.
As part of Bloomberg's ongoing drive for diversity and inclusion Bloomberg works with a variety of organisations to source interns from a variety of backgrounds. These include (from time to time):
- Bangladesh Football Association
- Career Academies
- WORLDwrite
- Kids Company
- ReachOut
- Employability
- Body + Soul
- Rugby Portobello Trust
- Blind in Business
Bloomberg also works with Blind in Business to encourage those who are visually impaired to apply and Bloomberg has joined MyPlus Consulting's disability champions scheme in order to focus on recruiting and retaining individuals with disabilities. Bloomberg further seeks to identify and address areas of under-representation by running targeted forums which have recently included Women in technology and Black and ethnic minorities. The requirement for these types of forum are reviewed on a regular basis.
Internally in order to promote equal opportunities, numerous soft skill development opportunities are available on Bloomberg University (BU) to all employees. Available courses include mandatory harassment and discrimination awareness training for employees and managers, mandatory interview and hiring training for anyone involved in the recruitment process to ensure that a fair and consistent process is followed, and mandatory grievance training for all members of Bloomberg's grievance committee. Those chosen to be Team Leaders also undertake a 15 hour 'Leadership Fundamentals' course, which specifically covers diversity and inclusion in a team context. These training sessions are further supported by a wealth of policies contained in Bloomberg's Employee Resource Guide available on Bloomberg's intranet.
In the course of submitting your application, you will be providing Bloomberg with your personal information. You consent to Bloomberg using that information for the purpose of considering your suitability for employment, as well as for general statistical analysis and reporting purposes, including candidate activity and demographic reports. Bloomberg will process your information in compliance with applicable laws on data protection.
If we do not employ you at this time, you agree that we may retain and use the information that we obtain as part of your application process so as to be able to consider your application later if a suitable position becomes available and, if appropriate, to refer back to this application if you apply again. If at any time you no longer want Bloomberg to consider your application, please let us know at Careers- Feedback, in which case your information will be stored securely for no more than one year from the date of notification and access to it will only be made if and to the extent necessary for legal and regulatory purposes.
Bloomberg is a global company and you therefore consent to Bloomberg processing your information on its servers in the United States of America. Bloomberg is committed to compliance with its privacy obligations and for that reason will apply the Safe Harbor Privacy Policy when processing your information on its US servers. If you are applying for a position outside the EEA and US, you agree that Bloomberg may also process your information on its servers in the country in which the relevant position is located. In processing data either in the US or any other country, employees of Bloomberg will only access your information where necessary:
-to consider your suitability for employment;
-for general statistical analysis and reporting purposes; or
-to comply with legal or regulatory obligations.
Where required, your information may be disclosed to law enforcement, regulatory or other government agencies, or third parties where necessary to comply with legal or regulatory obligations or requests.
If you are offered a position of employment at Bloomberg, such offer and continued employment is contingent on the satisfactory results of both reference checks and a background search.
You are responsible for ensuring that the information you submit is accurate and up-to-date. You may review, update or request removal of your personal applicant/profile information at any time using this site or by contacting Careers- Feedback. At the same time, by clicking 'I Agree' and submitting your application, you agree that we may use third parties to verify your information. However, we will not seek any additional data from those third parties without your explicit prior consent.
By clicking the 'Apply Now' button below you agree to the terms of the above Legal Statement.
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