Reporter
Benzinga
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Missouri • United States
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About the role
- Report for the real-time Benzinga Pro Newsdesk
- Add context and perspective to relevant news items impacting stocks and currencies
- Find news no one else knows how to find
- Help Benzinga become the number one source for investing and wealth building
- Write breaking news headlines based on company press releases, social media chatter, analyst coverage, specific stock movements and outside news sources
- Monitor and build multiple outside data sources to gather news as fast as possible
- Uncover, analyze and report why different stocks and currencies may be volatile
- Reach out to companies, investors, analysts, government agencies for original reporting
Requirements
- Minimum 2 years in a financial media role, preferably at a newswire service
- Knowledge of financial markets, stock markets, global events, economic trends a must
- Knowledge of foreign exchange trading, equities is highly desirable
- Knowledge of Benzinga Pro and competitor media
- Ability to work at break-neck pace for long stretches of time
- A hunger for uncovering and breaking news before the market
- Excellent typing skills (>70 WPM)
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Hard Skills & Tools
financial medianews reportingdata analysistyping skillsforeign exchange tradingequities
Soft Skills
ability to work under pressurehunger for breaking newscommunication skills