Polling Correspondent

About the Role

Reuters is seeking a Polling Correspondent to join its global polling team. This early-career opportunity involves producing forecasts and stories on economic and financial-market developments across 50 key economies, turning insights from economists, analysts, polling data, and events into accurate, timely reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the planning, execution, and analysis of regular and ad hoc Reuters polls on macroeconomic trends, financial markets, and central-bank policy.
• Monitor economic data releases, market-moving events, and central-bank decisions to identify polling opportunities and develop story angles.
• Analyze poll findings alongside economic and market developments to produce accurate, concise, and insightful stories.
• Build and maintain professional relationships with economists, analysts, and other sources to strengthen polling panels and reporting expertise.
• Contribute ideas for survey questions, data-driven analysis, and enterprise stories.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues across locations and time zones to meet deadlines and maintain high editorial standards.
• Use approved AI and digital tools to improve reporting workflows, data analysis, polling processes, and storytelling, adhering to accuracy and impartiality standards.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Microsoft Excel - Intermediate proficiency, including data organization, analysis, and interpretation.
• Comfort working with data and translating polling results, economic indicators, and market developments into clear journalistic insights.
• Strong verbal communication skills and confidence engaging with economists, analysts, and professional sources.
• Ability to manage competing deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative global environment.
• Ability to work the assigned rotational shift schedule.
• Analytical Thinking: Interprets data, poll results, and market developments to identify trends and reporting opportunities.
• Clear Communication: Produces concise, accessible stories and communicates professionally with sources and colleagues.
• Collaboration and Global Mindset: Works effectively with colleagues across geographies, cultures, and time zones.
• Adaptability and Deadline Discipline: Responds effectively to breaking developments, changing priorities, rotational shifts, and evolving newsroom tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in economics, journalism, or a related field.
• One to two years of experience as a journalist, reporter, or correspondent.
• Strong writing, reporting, and news judgment, with a demonstrated commitment to accuracy, fairness, and impartiality.
• Interest in, or basic knowledge of, economics, financial markets, and central-bank policy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience reporting on macroeconomics, financial markets, and/or central-bank policy.
• Prior experience conducting, supporting, or analyzing polls, surveys, or other structured data-collection projects.
• Python - Basic proficiency, particularly for data analysis, data cleaning, or reporting-related workflows.
• Familiarity with using AI-enabled tools responsibly to support research, data analysis, reporting, or storytelling.