Assistant Editor - Business News  

The Role: Assistant Editor, Business News

The Location: Pasig City, Philippines

The Team: The digital newsroom of S&P Global Market Intelligence is dedicated to delivering readers actionable news on financial markets around the world.

The Impact: The assistant editor plays a key role in publishing, assigning and writing articles covering business news.

What’s in it for you: This role provides the ability to take your journalism career to the next level, sharpening writing, editing and news judgment skills and helping guide the team's news coverage.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in producing clean and concise copy under deadline pressure
• Help shape our coverage by contributing story ideas, vetting news leads and compiling and/or editing daily and weekly features
• Collaborate with editors across the team to monitor news
• Continue to increase own industry knowledge, drawing on in-house training tools and other resources
• Willing to write stories, as and when needed
• Coach and mentor team members, where needed.

What We’re Looking For:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's/College Degree
• At least 4-5 years of working experience as a writer or editor
• A strong interest in business news
• Ability to communicate and coordinate effectively and collegially with team members
• Ability to move quickly from one task to another
• Meticulous attention to detail; dedication to producing quality product; deadline conscious
• Eager to learn new things and be a team player
• Ability to work under tight deadline
• Must be amenable to work the night shift or late night shift.