Greater China Reporter
Euromoney Institutional Investor (Jersey) Limited
- Company Industries:Media/Publishing/Printing
Job Information
- Post Date:2018-03-20
- Location:Not Specified
- Salary:Salary provided
- Employment Type:Full Time, Permanent
- Job Function:Others Editorial / Journalism Print Media
Job Description
Airfinance Journal, a Euromoney Institutional Investor publication, is seeking an early-career journalist or recent graduate with fluent Mandarin Chinese and English to join its editorial team in Hong Kong.
A subscription-driven title, Airfinance Journal has been running for over 30 years and is read by the biggest names in the aviation sector. This position is a chance for an ambitious reporter to sink his/her teeth into a niche market and learn about both aviation and finance.
The successful candidate will work with the Asia Finance Editor to develop the publication’s rapidly expanding coverage of Greater China. The candidate will write stories for both print and online about airlines, financiers, aircraft leasing companies and law firms engaged in the aviation finance business. The candidate will also be required to translate articles and other materials from Chinese to English, and vice versa.
Though based in Hong Kong, the candidate will have opportunities to travel around Greater China and beyond, attending and reporting on conferences in the region and moderating panel discussions at those events.
Responsibilities include:
- Daily hard news writing, interviews and features in English and Chinese
- Conducting telephone and in-person interviews in both English and Chinese
- Translating articles and other materials from English to Chinese, and vice versa
- Monitoring Chinese language news sources
- Cultivating and maintaining a network of industry sources
- Reporting on conferences in Hong Kong and overseas, and moderating panel discussions at these conferences
- Travel around the region to conduct interviews and meet sources
- Editing Airfinance Journal’s Chinese-language content
The ideal candidate:
- Educated to degree level at a reputable university. A degree in journalism is desirable but not mandatory.
- Some prior journalism experience
- Fluency in spoken and written English and Mandarin Chinese
- A willingness and ability to travel frequently outside of Hong Kong
- An interest in aviation and finance
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good prioritisation skills in order to meet strict deadlines
Please email a CV, covering letter and up to five examples of recent journalistic work.
Personal data collected will be used for recruitment purpose only.
Company Info
Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (www.euromoneyplc.com) is an international business information group listed on the stock exchange and is a member of the FTSE 250 share index. Euromoney’s group of businesses covers asset management, price discovery, data and market intelligence, under brands including, Euromoney, Institutional Investor, BCA Research, Ned Davis Research and Fastmarkets. Euromoney also runs an extensive portfolio of large-scale events. Euromoney has revenues of around £400m, a market cap of about £1.2bn and approximately 1600 employees. The business is divided into six divisions:
- Financial and Professional Services
- Telecoms
- Institutional Investor
- Investment Research
- Fastmarkets
Euromoney is known for its entrepreneurial culture – Euromoney people are creative, action-oriented, close to customers, passionate about their brands, knowledgeable about the industries they serve and accountable for their results. The company aims for what it calls “the best of both worlds” – complementing these entrepreneurial characteristics with the benefits that come from being a sizeable company; for example taking advantage of Euromoney’s scale, sharing best practice, operating strategically and creating career paths for staff across the whole company. Strong central functions alongside the business divisions are essential for this.
In 2016, Euromoney outlined a new strategy to investors combining organic development and strategic and well-executed acquisitions and disposals. The company aims to allocate and recycle capital efficiently towards good, organic and inorganic opportunities via their “best of both worlds” operating model. Their ambition is to generate consistent and meaningful returns for shareholders at relatively low risk.
The company headquarters are in London, with additional main offices in New York, Montreal, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai. The group has a further 20 offices around the world.
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